Quick reply needed: bath tap pressure query

[Confiteor]

Hello

Hate to be so demanding, but I am about to order an entire bathroom suite, and I need to pin down the tap options sharpish to book a delivery slot.

We live in a bungalow. We have a cold water tank in the loft, and a hot water cylinder at ground-floor level.

Am I correct to assume that this will not give us a pressure rating to boast of? The bath tap we like most is a tap/shower fitment mixer, but has a recommended minimum pressure rating of 1.0 bar.

I don't know how to measure pressure, but am I right in thinking that this tap is only suitable in a high-pressure environment, and is unlikely to be suitable in a set-up like ours?

And, as an aside, just what kind of set-up is required to give a 1.0-bar tap pressure?

 

[gas4you]

I think one bar is approx 10m head if memory still working In your case this would mean you will have appox 0.3 bar at hot taps

You need to make sure you buy low pressure taps. A lot of these fancy looking new ones are foreign rubbish that are designed only to work on mains pressure systems, eg,megaflo's etc

 

[Confiteor]

It's not cheap stuff. Well, I hope it's not --- it's Kohler.

But there is a similar tap without the shower attachment with a recommended rating of 0.2 bar, so I think I'll have to go with that.