Aqualisa Quartz

[willougs]

Hi all. Maybe a dumb question with no real answer, but...

Just had an Aqualisa Quartz shower installed, with the pump located in the loft. When it's running, it's quite a noisy thing and tends to slightly vibrate the house. Not overly noisy, but possibily enough to wake someone sleeping in the bedroom below it's location.

Is there a suggested/tried and tested way to quieten it down a bit? Maybe build it into a box and sit the unit on something?

Thanks very much in advance for your time,
Steve

ps. apologies if posted in the wrong area.

 

[bathjobby]

Fitted mine 9 months ago and have same effect. I tired moving it further away (longer pipes) and mounting it on rubber feet but makes little difference. I ended up taking it up off the joists completely by fitting it to a shelf mounted on the gable end which helped a little but not entirely satisfactory. I've concluded from all of this that it is mainly vibration through the pipe work rather than noise. My last option was to connect the hot and cold feeds and the outlet via pushfit flexi connectors (they do 300mm ones as pipe repairers) to stop the vibration, but haven't got around to it. If you try this, please post the results back here, as I've already done the difficult bit to determine the cause I'd be very interested in the results.

 

[willougs]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

I do believe that mine has already been fitted with plastic hose type pipes.
I know the output (to shower head) definately is until it drops down through the wall. With regards inputs, I'm sure that the hot water (from cylinder) is copper until it gets into the loft and then flexi to the unit. I think the cold is copper all the way from the header tank. So, I'm guessing there's only one pipe that I can change, and from memory that has several plastic mounting clips on it so it shouldn't be rattling too much.

I have also tried mounting on rubber washers etc with no difference. Unfortunately my header tank is not mounted very high so I am limited to position of the unit (i.e. anywhere as long as its on the loft floor)

My next option was to build it into a box, but wasn't sure on operating temperatures etc.

 

[bathjobby]

So, I'm guessing there's only one pipe that I can change, and from memory that has several plastic mounting clips on it so it shouldn't be rattling too much

I'm not suggesting things are rattling, but that if you have a rigid connection (metal or plastic), it will transmit the vibration from the units pumps. I know this is happening in my case as touching the sink tap for example, you can feel the tiny vibrations. So having mounted mine on the gable end has stopped it being transmitted through the joists, but I still have it through the rigid connections.