shower advice - no mains water...

[wantashower]

Hello,

I've been browsing the forum for similar threads but without success, so I thought to ask here.

I live in a rural bungalow without mains water. The water supply is from a ground-bore well from the nearby farm. Our bathroom only has a bath tub and we would now like to install a shower on the wall above the bath.

However, we have poor water pressure and being a bungalow the hot water tank is on the same level as the bath. The cold water feed has ok water pressure, but not like mains pressure and the hot water pressure is very weak.

Having popped into the local DIY store, there was not much helpful advice. Most of the wallshower units were described a gravity fed (useless for us?).

So I am here to seek advice on what I should be looking for and how to go about it. I am not looking to put in a shower cubicle, but to put in a power-shower system on the wall above the bath taps. Water pressure seems to be our main problem.

Many thanks in advance and please let me know if I need to provide more information.

 

[Breesey]

Pumping it should be fine, and your best option by the sound of it.

 

[wantashower]

Pumping it should be fine, and your best option by the sound of it.

so is that a shower with a built in pump?

also I'm not sure if to draw the hot water from the tank or to heat the water in the shower unit as it draws in the cold.

(i've no experience of anything like this, just asking as the bods in B&Q couldn't help)

 

[Softus]

Pumping it should be fine, and your best option by the sound of it.

I would never pump the mains, even if it's a private supply - if you overrun the supply flow rate then you drag in all kinds of undesirable content.

wantashower - do you have space in your loft for a break tank?

 

[wantashower]

wantashower - do you have space in your loft for a break tank?

Yes, there is loft space. Though adding a tank and routing piping sounds expensive. I had kind of hoped that I could get myself a shower and put in for £500. Maybe I should just stick to the bath!

 

[Breesey]

Pumping it should be fine, and your best option by the sound of it.

I would never pump the mains, even if it's a private supply - if you overrun the supply flow rate then you drag in all kinds of undesirable content.

wantashower - do you have space in your loft for a break tank?

Quite right. I should have mentioned a break tank, sorry about that!!

 

[Breesey]

Yes, there is loft space. Though adding a tank and routing piping sounds expensive. I had kind of hoped that I could get myself a shower and put in for £500. Maybe I should just stick to the bath!

I would have thought that you could do it for that, or there abouts. Assuming you DIY.