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Installing an additional shower to gravity fed system.

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.40 PM

Hi, i currently have a vented gravity fed system with separate cold and hot water tanks. The house is a bungalow and the cold tank is high up in the attic. The whole house is pressurised by a twin impeller pump. I would like to install an additional shower over the bath. The pump feeding the sinks & toilets is annoying, pressure is too high and it wakes everyone up if you use the toilet through the night. Question: Can i feed the existing en suite shower, bath and new shower from the pump. Then have a separate gravity feed for 2 sinks and 2 toilets? Kitchen is fed from mains supply Thanks!

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4 Answers

Ace Boilers Ltd

Rating: 4.8 out of 5

Wood Green, London

Unlikely, but not impossible. The cold feeds from the pump joins up with all the cold outlets, so the two basins and toilets would need to be separated from the pump cold feed, and run separately.

Answered19 September 2021

Anonymous user

Yes you can run the bath and shower from the existing plumbing connect from the pumps. Regarding the toilets and sinks, you would need new plumbing installed from the existing plumbing but before the pumps. This can be quite invasive if you would like the pipes hidden within the walls. Alternatively you can run the new pipes along the walls to the toilet and sink but you will be able see them.

Answered18 October 2021

jt property services

Rating: 5 out of 5

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Yes perfectly ok to do with a bit of pipe jigging around and aslong as your incoming mains are sufficient pressure I.ie. 2/3 bar

Answered18 October 2021

Plumb Tidy Ltd

Rating: 5 out of 5

Caerphilly

If the sound of the pump activating wakes everyone up it’s cheaper and easier to encase it in a eggshell box type sound proofing material to quiet it down. If the sound of the water coming through the tap is to noisy open the tap just a little and fit a silent fill valve to the cistern.

Answered9 October 2021