Pumping hot / cold water advice, please
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Hi all.
I am looking for some advice on pumped hot/cold water systems, please. I have 'googled this' loads, but can't find the same situation, so hoping for any plumbing expert P/headers....
We intend to renovate our 2 bathrooms and 1 shower room upstairs and a downstairs toilet. The 2 bathrooms have a bath, a wall mounted shower, a basin and toilet and the shower room has a wall mounted shower, basin and toilet.
Our system is a fairly standard tank gravity fed hot and tank gravity fed cold to all taps upstairs (all upstairs toilets seem to fill via the cold tank and NOT mains)
D/Stairs loo and cold tap is on mains cold supply, so that's OK - I will need to get a basin tap which will cope with the mains cold and gravity fed hot water supply.
I want to do away with the (LOUD) wall mounted mixer power showers we have in all 3 bath/shower rooms and pump the hot and cold to all 3 rooms so there's a central pump for all.
Also, most modernish taps seem to be for highish pressure systems, so I would possibly like to pump the hot and cold water to the 2 x baths taps and 3 x basin taps in all 3 bath/shower rooms, too. So far seems like a straight forward whole house pump is needed... BUT, what I don't want is for any of the 3 upstairs toilets to be pumped (as mentioned, they all seem to fill via the cold water tank in the loft).
Is there a way around this (ie to just pump the hot & cold supplies to all basin and bath taps & showers and not the toilets).
I haven't ripped out the old baths/showers yet, so not sure if the supplies to the toilets "T - off" the supply to the basins/baths. Would this be the case?
I realise that I could have a pressurised hot water system and feed all the cold taps at mains pressure, but this seems like a whole heap of re-plumbing and expense. Is this the case?
Sorry for the waffly explanation above...
Thanks in advance of any help.
Jon
I am looking for some advice on pumped hot/cold water systems, please. I have 'googled this' loads, but can't find the same situation, so hoping for any plumbing expert P/headers....
We intend to renovate our 2 bathrooms and 1 shower room upstairs and a downstairs toilet. The 2 bathrooms have a bath, a wall mounted shower, a basin and toilet and the shower room has a wall mounted shower, basin and toilet.
Our system is a fairly standard tank gravity fed hot and tank gravity fed cold to all taps upstairs (all upstairs toilets seem to fill via the cold tank and NOT mains)
D/Stairs loo and cold tap is on mains cold supply, so that's OK - I will need to get a basin tap which will cope with the mains cold and gravity fed hot water supply.
I want to do away with the (LOUD) wall mounted mixer power showers we have in all 3 bath/shower rooms and pump the hot and cold to all 3 rooms so there's a central pump for all.
Also, most modernish taps seem to be for highish pressure systems, so I would possibly like to pump the hot and cold water to the 2 x baths taps and 3 x basin taps in all 3 bath/shower rooms, too. So far seems like a straight forward whole house pump is needed... BUT, what I don't want is for any of the 3 upstairs toilets to be pumped (as mentioned, they all seem to fill via the cold water tank in the loft).
Is there a way around this (ie to just pump the hot & cold supplies to all basin and bath taps & showers and not the toilets).
I haven't ripped out the old baths/showers yet, so not sure if the supplies to the toilets "T - off" the supply to the basins/baths. Would this be the case?
I realise that I could have a pressurised hot water system and feed all the cold taps at mains pressure, but this seems like a whole heap of re-plumbing and expense. Is this the case?
Sorry for the waffly explanation above...
Thanks in advance of any help.
Jon
Thanks so far, guys. Couple of useful ideas.
I did kind of assume that I'd maybe have to go down the mains pressure system...What sort of cost do you think such a system would be, installed?
(Oh and Gingerbread, I thought I recognised the username - I'm a fellow "Caterham-er" and I've read loads of your posts re:living with a Caterham - legendary!!). (Also, Matt, good to get advice from a fellow "Staffs-er" - I'm originally a Stokie)...
I did kind of assume that I'd maybe have to go down the mains pressure system...What sort of cost do you think such a system would be, installed?
(Oh and Gingerbread, I thought I recognised the username - I'm a fellow "Caterham-er" and I've read loads of your posts re:living with a Caterham - legendary!!). (Also, Matt, good to get advice from a fellow "Staffs-er" - I'm originally a Stokie)...
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