Need more power! In bathroom - mixer tap shower

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Hi All

Our master bathroom has a bath with taps and the sort of pull the plunger to make it send the water to the shower. To say its rubbish is an understatement, we dont use it much but any guests will do so I need to do something.

I dont want a pump because itll pump when we run a bath too, and we do that every night for the 5 year old.

So what are my options? Cold water tank is in the loft - fairly standard 30 year old house set up.

Many thanks

[herewego]

Make a simple timber frame to lift the tank as high as you can in the loft to increase the pressure at the taps and shower.

[Dave_ST220]

Plumb in separate shower from the bath feeds with a pump?

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Dave_ST220 said:

Plumb in separate shower from the bath feeds with a pump?

At the moment this seems the most likely option, but would mean re-tiling(I think) and at this point I may as well re do the whole bathroom, but I dont have budget for that and its not too bad as is annoyingly!

[8-P]

I should mention, next to the bathroom is my airing cupboard and in here is a pump for our ensuite. So technically hooking up to this would be dead simple - the guy that fitted it did say it would be easy. But this would mean the shower pump gets twice as much use as it does currently and shorten its life. That said they arent that expensive so maybe I should do this.

[stanwan]

You could replace the tank upstairs with an unvented cylinder? Check the flow and pressure from the kitchen tap to see if it would be worth it?

Is there anywhere else in the building you could house a pump/accumulator/thermal store?

As for noise, you could construct an acoustic isolation frame?

[ian_uk1975]

Why don't you want a pump to run when you fill the bath? I installed a pump to feed our bath fillers and a mixer shower in the en-suite. It also, of course, provides pumped hot throughout the house.

[g7jtk]

An unvented hot water cylinder is the way to go.

[DoubleSix]

Just had an unvented cyclinder but in our attic (2nd floor) in our Edwardian house.

Awesome!

Means I have a very high quality brass pump available for a few beer tokens if you're near Bristol.

[ian_uk1975]

Unvented cylinders are great, but much more costly than a pump. For a large family where there's heavy demands placed on the HW supply, pressurised system might be the way to go, but for boosting HW pressure in a smaller house or for a small family, a pump is a cost effective means to an end. Very happy with ours.

[bernhund]

Lift diverter knob, attach clothes peg, turn on tap. Sorted.