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[diychris]

I'm installing a twin shower pump and it's not very convenient to get a direct cold feed from the cold storage tank or a hot supply from the hot water cylinder. Can the hot & cold supplies be taken from the 22mm supplies to the bath or from the normal 15mm hot & cold to rest of the house?

 

[kevplumb]

you can take them off the bath if it is tank fed but it is NOT reccomended

 

[diychris]

Thanks for the reply. It is tank fed. If I did use the supplies to the bath, I'm assuming that you have to avoid getting air into the pump? would it help if I fitted non-return valves on the outlets to the taps?

 

[jonblair]

Hello diychris, how did you get on with this?
would appreciate your comments on your problem as i have the same dilemma.

 

[ChrisR]

It works, though you may have to limit the flow to avoid sucking air into the pump via the tank's vent. Also, odd things happen at taps which share the pipe - the pump will suck air from those too.

 

[jonblair]

Thanks for the info. I think i will be ok in that case. have only one bathroom, am on me own, xcept for the darling woman who comes round to help...and well be in the shower together...