Plumbing

Switching from gravity fed water to mains connection

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.50 PM

I live in a flat in a 1960s council block in London. The mains water comes into the kitchen, and hot water in the kitchen is provided by an immersion heater. The boiler is in the bathroom on the opposite end of the flat, supplied by a gravity fed system in the top of the building. The bathroom and boiler water pressure is extremely low. The boiler reads as just less than 1 bar. I want to get the bathroom replaced and get the water pressure sorted. Ideally i also would no longer use the immersion heater in the kitchen. Is the best solution to connect the bathroom to mains water, which i guess would mean running a pipe from the kitchen to the bathroom (quite a long way as it's a big flat)? Would this be expensive? The walls are concrete not plasterboard. I'm wondering if a cheaper alternative would be installing some kind of pump but dont know if that would really sort the problem.