Shower Pump Hose issue

You have most of the fittings.
What you have there on the end of the flexi's are the remnants of polypipe push fittings, all the grey bits. All you need to do is get them off and use proper JG speedfit push fittings.
I see they haven't supplied the rubber base for it either, you will need one of those, do not be tempted to screw the pump to the floor.

Looks like you've got a wickes pump there? -
http://www.wickes.co.uk/content/ebiz/wickes/resources/images/gil/46.pdf
 
Thanks! So shall I replace all the grey bits with new JG Speedfits and do I need the inserts if my pipes are copper?

Also what can I use as a rubber base and can it be purchased separately?
 
No inserts are needed for copper pipework , a rubber car mat cut up will do to go under the pump.

Andy
 
Many thanks for all your help! Does it matter which pair go to the hot and which pair got to the cold? How can I tell which is the inlet and which is the outlet?
 
You can use either side for hot or cold. The pipes that a black plastic surround on the base of the flexible pipe is the flow to the outlet, look at the plastic they normally have an arrow on them.

Andy
 
Do I have to use both sides? By only using one side for the hot water damage the pump?

I have looked at my hot water tank and cant seem to figure out where to make the cut to fit the pump. Can someone guide me. Please find picture below:

http://oi41.tinypic.com/1642s7.jpg
 
I can see the two pipes for the heat exchanger. I can see the pipe that goes into the bottom from the cold water tank. I am assuming the hot water out would be somewhere on the top?

Which still leaves my question of the pump unanswered. Can the impeller or bearing be damaged if there is nothing connected to it?
 
Hides behind the couch :shock:

Giz, can I suggest that you get a professional in to fit the pump for you. Unfortunately by your questions, and you may have guessed, by some of the answers, you may have trouble getting this pump to work properly if you fit it.

Quick answer to your questions are - you need a dedicated hot water feed from the cylinder and a separate cold water feed from the cold water cistern for the pump, you cannot use the current pipework.
Yes you will damage the pump running one side dry.
 
With Madrab here totally! OP, if you're not sure, please don't attempt it, don't risk hurting yourself or your family.

Using one half of the pump will: 1. Wreck that side of the pump, possibly making it very noisy in operation, and sooner rather than later, knacker the entire pump, and 2. Give unbalanced supplies to the shower making it either stone cold or boiling hot, and in any event, unsafe and unusable. :shock:

The pump is designed to pump balanced supplies of hot and cold water from stored supplies. Trying to use it for anything other than it's designed purpose will not work, and as said if the shower is then starved of cold water, whoever is using it could get seriously scalded. For this reason the cold supply should always be taken from a lower point in the cold storage cistern than the supply to the cylinder. If cistern runs dry, hot water will run out first. A quick blast of cold water never hurt anyone!
 
Didn't even look at the pic, now I realise what Herts was on about.
Either that's a wind up or if that's your hot water cupboard and it's in a family home then I wld class that as immediately dangerous and have everything turned off until it was made safe!
 
Thank you guys. Got a plumber round and he was saying to have it fitted under the bath where only the bath water will be pressurised. As there is no electrical socket in the bathroom, he was suggesting to drill a hole into the wall and have the wire leading to the next room and plug it into a socket. My concern was if the fuse blew or anyone left the switch off accidentally and locked that room door, then I have an issue. Besides it just seemed like a boj job.

Anyhow, the plumber found an excuse to wriggle out of the job, telling me that my hot water stopcok was not working thus not turning off the hot water. He told me that if I can switch it off then he'll come back and do it.

This defeats the whole objective of getting a plumber. If I can switch it off, then I might as well do the job. I didn't take me seconds to figure out that by switching the cold water mains off and emptying the hot water tank and the cold water tank will eventually do the trick. If I can think of this, why couldn't he?

I am an engineer by trade and have done plumbing before even though it is not really my area of work. And plumbers like this only put me off hence I end up doing it myself.

PS: the picture looks worse that it is. :P
 

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