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Advice for water pressure pump

  • 16-11-2023 4:04pm
    #1
    pete4pool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭


    Hi,

    So I live in a standard 2000's 3 bed semi-d with boiler and hot water cylinder and tanks in the attic. Last year I got solar panels which will heat the hot water cylinder via immersion. Always had hot water in the summer. We have one electric shower and one bath. We did up out main bathroom couple years ago and the water pressure in the bath and sink were really low after. But now I want to add a shower that uses the hot water cylinder to the same location of the electrical shower. I actually have most of that done. But for it to work I need to increase the pressure. Looking to see what type of pump to install.


    Positive or negative: The shower head will be just below the 600mm of the tank input above it. Is this enough, should I risk getting a positive one, or just be safe with the negative? I can't measure the pressure yet as I was hoping to install the pump before connecting the pipes. But I could install them and get the 1lt per second if you thought it was needed.

    Just shower or all water: Will I set this up so that it pumps just the shower water or it pumps all the upstairs water. Obv with the other bathroom with low pressure, you would say all of the upstairs, but the low pressure doesn't bother us too much. And if I connect it to all the upstairs, the pump will come on more and therefore have more noise.

    Bars: 1.0, 1.5, 2.0: Weather I connect it to just the shower or all the upstairs, does this determine which bar. Its unlikely the shower and the bath would be going at the same time. Whats the main thing I need to consider here?

    Single or twin: I'm going for twin here, as the pressure of the hot and cold should be the same.


    Anything else to consider? Noise, cost, brand. TIA

    Pete



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