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Replace Shower Head with Rigid Riser
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05-06-2013 11:04PM#1Hi All,
We are doing up an ensuite bathroom and would like to have rigid riser shower head with a detachable hand held shower head like this one. It would be replacing a shower head that hung from a bar and was connected to the mixer (in the picture below) with a hose.
Can I just replace the connector at the end of the pipe with a different shower supply elbow (or possibly just rotate it 180 degrees) and attach the pole of the new shower head to that? Are there any issues with doing that? I assume all mixers are more or less the same so it doesn't matter what is attached to them?
Thanks,
stefg0
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The most you are going to get with a 1.5bar pump with that type of shower is reasonably wet.
Why do people constantly think a larger head gives a better shower? The ONLY thing that will give you a better shower is a pump not a shower head, before you go out and spend money on a shower valve, which usually is only designed for a pressurised system, ask for tge flow curve of the valve, if the supplier cant give you thst than no matter how sexy it looks or how expensive it is IT IS CRAP at a high mark up, lots of brassware comes from the east and the only think good about it is the shops mark up.
The flow curve will tell you what the flow rates will be at what pressure, btw when a shower valve says minimum flow pressure required is 1.5 bar they mean thats what is needed to make it work and NOT to perform to any great standard.
A 3 bar pump means you will now require a bigger cold water storage capacity and a bigger hot water cylinder, you would never believe the amount of people who bitch about the "really expensive"shower they instslled that doesnt work ..... it wont unless you have enough hot and cold water to supply it, also keep in mind if you are pumping 3 bar pressure out of your cylinder and cold water tank, do you have the sufficent mains water pressure to replenish it, and finally a 3 bar pump ? With knob heads like big Phil and the old Green three hugers legacy of water meters... mmmm.
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LIFFY FISHING wrote: »The most you are going to get with a 1.5bar pump with that type of shower is reasonably wet.
Why do people constantly think a larger head gives a better shower? The ONLY thing that will give you a better shower is a pump not a shower head, before you go out and spend money on a shower valve, which usually is only designed for a pressurised system, ask for tge flow curve of the valve, if the supplier cant give you thst than no matter how sexy it looks or how expensive it is IT IS CRAP at a high mark up, lots of brassware comes from the east and the only think good about it is the shops mark up.
The flow curve will tell you what the flow rates will be at what pressure, btw when a shower valve says minimum flow pressure required is 1.5 bar they mean thats what is needed to make it work and NOT to perform to any great standard.
A 3 bar pump means you will now require a bigger cold water storage capacity and a bigger hot water cylinder, you would never believe the amount of people who bitch about the "really expensive"shower they instslled that doesnt work ..... it wont unless you have enough hot and cold water to supply it, also keep in mind if you are pumping 3 bar pressure out of your cylinder and cold water tank, do you have the sufficent mains water pressure to replenish it, and finally a 3 bar pump ? With knob heads like big Phil and the old Green three hugers legacy of water meters... mmmm.
The shower has been installed for a few months now and works great with the 1.5 bar pump. No problems with pressure at all, the shower is great. The large head gives a ready steady and comfortable flow and the small hand held head gives a very powerful flow so all good. Even when the second shower is running the pressure is fine, the pressure is slightly reduced when both are running but it's still very effective.
I think your comments were overly negative and I'm glad I ignored them, very happy with the new shower 0
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