adding additional shower (not electric)

[stanna]

Howdy,

Looking at adding an additional shower in main bathroom, current shower is in en suite only. Current hot water is provided by what i would call the old gravity fed system. Hot water cylinder on 1st floor where both showers are/will be. Original shower is fed by this cylinder which has a cold water tank above in the loft.

Obviously the shower is limited to the content of the cylinder and am aware both showers could not run simulateously but its an issue more of conveniance for other family members to have a shower in main bath as oppsed to coming into main bedroom.

Is it simply a matter of putting a tee on the shower supply pipe and running it to other bathroom.

It would be more conveneiant to run the new pipe up into the loft above the cylinder but below the cold water tank across about 2 meters then down into main bath to shower head.
Im working on the assumption that i will not lose any pressure as the head is measured from the shower head to the top of water in cold water tank in loft.

I will be changing to a combi boiler in a year or so but the batthroom needs doing now.

Can i do this or any thoughts.

Cheers

Stanna

 

[dcawkwell]

Yes I suggest you T into the expansion pipe of the hot water
and T into the cold feed of the cold water tank to supply
the shower.
Job done.

The shower will only get better when you go to mains pressure combi.

Although if you are going to a combi I would have one of your showers as
an electric shower fed from the mains to act as backup for hot water washing in case of boiler failure.

 

[stanna]

Cheers for reply

just to get my head round this i was thinking that the the feed from cold water tank in loft actually pushes the hot water out of the cylinder hence the reason why my shower head can be higher than the cylinder but not higher than cold tank.
I was wanting to tee into the pipe that currently connects from cylinder to shower head for hot water but this means going above the existing shower head and over to the other room. Then just take a cold feed off from somewhere in the loft.

Am i right or mental???
Cheers

 

[dcawkwell]

Cheers for reply

just to get my head round this i was thinking that the the feed from cold water tank in loft actually pushes the hot water out of the cylinder hence the reason why my shower head can be higher than the cylinder but not higher than cold tank.
I was wanting to tee into the pipe that currently connects from cylinder to shower head for hot water but this means going above the existing shower head and over to the other room. Then just take a cold feed off from somewhere in the loft.

Am i right or mental???
Cheers

Just T off from the two pipes you have in the loft. Cold feed from the cold tank and the hot vent pipe. The both cold and hot will be at same pressure.