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Air to Water and Shower Pump Issues

nathan89 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:20:46 +0000

Hi,

I'm 2 years into my new build and the shower pump has burnt out. I rang the manufacturer for a replacement under warranty and after sending some info about our heating system, they informed me that because the air to water is an unvented system, you can't have a gravity fed shower pump on the hot water pipe coming out of the air to water unit. Something to do with the air to water cold feed coming from the mains water.

Does anyone know if this is true?

Thanks

Pump at bottom of header tank in attic

Andy From Sligo — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:58:49 +0000

is this do-able will it work? - are pumps better to 'push out' the water or better to 'pull/suck' the water through?

if you have your twin propellor pump with its 1 shaft running but 2 propellors are running but shower number 1 is not going but shower number 2 is operating would that (or the pressure but no-where to go) not ruin the propeller linked up to shower 1 ?

Or would i need to fit 2 separate single propellor pumps instead of 1 twin propellor pump at the bottom of the header tank to work it?

many thanks.

Andy.

Types of Electric Mixer Thermostatic Showers?

somebodude — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:53:41 +0000

Replacing an old shower, in a bungalow with oil and immersion heating;

Can I find a Thermostatic shower that will also heat up the water if the 'hot' supply is cold ?

It seems that showers are only ever either mixers of heaters, but not both ?

Combi vs Heat pump for 1970's House reno

LocoLogo — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:24:19 +0000

Im doing a reno on a 1400fts dormer house. One salesman is trying to convince me that a 16,000 Euro air to heat system is great value. I dont have that kind of money to spend unfortunately. Another plumber I spoke to advised me that a Combi boiler will work just fine for this size of a house.

The 3 bed house has 2 showers, 1 kitchen tap & 2 sets of taps in toilet sinks.

1- Will a combi provide good hot water pressure for a shower?
2- Will it be able to run a hot water tap and shower simultaneously?
3- Will I need a storage tank and pump with the Combi?

Any recommendations on the type of Boiler, pumps and tanks would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Shower Pump Feed 4 Showers

davemc1987 — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:01:31 +0000

Hi,

We are looking to add 2 additional en-suite showers to our house. This will mean we will have 4 tank fed showers in our house.

Firstly we need to get a bigger tank. Secondly we need a motorized pump to feed these showers a good water flow.

I have seen twin shower pumps (hot & cold). Is it possible to plumb 4 showers to one pump?

Twin pump has 4 outlets, so my understanding is 1 hot & 1 cold input and then 1 hot & 1 cold output. Can you have 8 feeds (4 showers) coming off of the 2 outputs?

Hopefully this makes sense unless my understanding is wrong.

/Dave

Shower pump

tmccar — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:06:08 +0000

The top of my hot water cylinder looks like this:
http://greenpower4home.com/tmc/cyl.jpg
I want to fit a shower pump. For this, do I need to fit a Surrey flange? And does it look like it will slot in ok?

Shower pump problems- water pressure to blame?

scarpasghost — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:25:31 +0000

Hi there,

Hopefully someone out there can help me. I've been having problems with a shower pump. It's a small 1.5 bar, twin impeller pump. The pump was installed about a year ago, wasn't used excessively and was working fine until recently.

At the minute the pump works fine when pumping cold or unheated hot water, however once the water is actually hot the pressure dies and the pump begins to struggle and eventually stops. I got in touch with the manufacturer who advised me that the thermostat on the hot water tank had been set too high and so the impeller had probably been damaged. We replaced the pump with a brand new one but the problem is still there.

If anyone can offer any advice it would be great, we're stumped at the minute. I don't understand why the problem on happens when its pumping hot water and not with cold. More to the point, we don't understand why it's happening now when the thing ran perfectly well for the past year. The only thing that's changed is the fact that Irish water fixed a leak to a meter further along the street and since then the water pressure in the taps in the house has been noticeably lower. The problem seems to have started shortly after this?

Thanks for you help.

Electric Shower - Pressure problem

lukeod — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:50:09 +0000

Hi,

Any help would be appreciated on this shower problem!

Situation

A Mira electric shower installed in bathroom, but there appears to be insufficient pressure.
Water tank is maybe two meters above the bathroom in the attic, with a 15mm pipe supplying water so maybe no surprise the pressure is low

Questions!:
Generally, can a 1.5 bar single impeller shower pump be used to boost pressure for an electric shower?

If so, is a centrifugal pump suitable, situated in the attic about 60cm below the water tank?

I'm hoping this will be a case of installing a 1.5 bar centrifugal pump underneath the water tank to boost the pressure and satisfy the electric shower.

Any advice would be great!

Monsoon Shower Pump Problem

Strevs — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:42:59 +0000

Hi,
Have just installed a Monsoon 4 bar positive Head pump in the midst of new shower unit, tray, sink etc etc.
All working fine in that it detects flow when shower/taps turned on and pumps lovely but.....when either turned off, pump "staggers" to a stop It even makes the lights in the bathroom flicker, despite being on on it's own fused connection direct from the main circuit board....:eek:

Any suggestions appreciated

Thanks in advance

Shower Pump

kenny_david — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:35:24 +0000

I have a Newteam 3.0 bar twin impeller NTPUMP 100R shower pump that is not working properly
http://www.thebathtub.co.uk/Newteam/Bristan-Shower-Booster-Pump-100R-3-Bar-FREE-DELIVERY

Its running a shower and kitchen tap that is not working.
Last week the pump was continued to pump when the shower and tap were turned off so I disconnected the electricity to see if this reset it but that didn't work, then I happened to notice that a magnet passed over the side flange where the cable and sensor was and it seemed to effect the pump and it turned off when it was near, I played around with the magnet and it I got it to work as normal, but last night it happened again and I tried the same steps above and I got the pump to turn off by passing the magnet over it, but now the pump only works when the magnet is beside the sensor on the side.

Does anyone know what’s going wrong and how to fix it, I think the micro switch is out of place or something any help would be appreciated

Fitting Shower Pump in Hot Press - Advice Please

magnumlady — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:52:36 +0000

Hello my hubby has asked me to post this up to try and get some advice. He wants to fit a shower pump he has just bought (1.5 Bar max) into the hot press and the way he wants to do it for convenience of pipework and space is to put it before the copper hot water cylinder as opposed to after it but he is worried that the pressure out of the pump when it is in operation will push the water up the expansion pipe from the copper cylinder to the cold water storage tank in the loft space. What do you reckon would it?

To explain it better he has drawn (badly sorry) a diagram which I am posting up with this or can be viewed here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14692679@N0...
or:
http://tinyurl.com/7q8hb3

Thanks for any helpful advice you can offer if you are a plumber or know a bit about plumbing.