30-01-13, 07:43 PM
I bought a new electric shower from B&Q and installed it only to find that it was pants with hardly any flow.
Water pressure to the house is fine with a brand new poly main but we have a combi boiler with no tank which means no power shower option and this is for a downstairs wet room with no bath, so no mixer shower option either as I can't afford to redecorate.
I understand that the higher the KW the better the flow from the shower, but when I look at electric showers they nearly all say not suitable for comb-boiler/mains set up.
I've seen a few from Triton which have 1.5 bar flow at 10.5Kw and I thought these would be ok for use on mains with a combi boiler (cold fill only) but looking on Plumbworld.co.uk it seems like every electric shower is marked as unsuitable for combi boiler mains water feed.
Completely confused with this now, could do with someone who has the knowledge...help!
Water pressure to the house is fine with a brand new poly main but we have a combi boiler with no tank which means no power shower option and this is for a downstairs wet room with no bath, so no mixer shower option either as I can't afford to redecorate.
I understand that the higher the KW the better the flow from the shower, but when I look at electric showers they nearly all say not suitable for comb-boiler/mains set up.
I've seen a few from Triton which have 1.5 bar flow at 10.5Kw and I thought these would be ok for use on mains with a combi boiler (cold fill only) but looking on Plumbworld.co.uk it seems like every electric shower is marked as unsuitable for combi boiler mains water feed.
Completely confused with this now, could do with someone who has the knowledge...help!