Want to explain a bit about the drawing first so it can make sense and provide some context.
The pipes from the mains stop cock are polypipe (mdpe) which run into the bypass valve. Where the label unsoftened (inlet to water softener) and softened (outlet to house mains) we have a water softener...
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I live in a rather old house with pretty poor water flow rate and pressure so have been looking at ways to improve this as I'm looking to upgrade my bathroom. currently my boiler refill loop is showing 1 bar and I've measured 6.5 l/min at the shower. the house its self is 2...
I have this http://cifial.co.uk/black-780th/ which is now 3 years old. Last Thursday it stopped working and tripped the circuit board. Plumber installed a new like-for-like pump (Salamander CT50+XTRA) and got the shower working again. On Saturday morning it failed to work. I left the small head...
Hi all it's a bit of a long one but please help me out if you can
I installed a Salamander Home boost pump to my Flat.I nstall was great and all working as it should.
I live in a council flat and to my surprise there were two stop cocks. One that controls the downstairs cold water in. And one...
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We have a standard gravitational system at home and a Salamander pump CT force 30pt is part of the hot water system for the 2nd floor.
For the last three months, the pump didn't work well and wasn't starting to generate pressure each time we opened the taps/shower handle.
At the...
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I'm looking for some advice please...
We had a heat pump installed about 10 years ago and with it a Joule twin tank setup. The bottom one is the buffer tank and the top one is an unvented hot water cylinder. However, the hot water cylinder was set up vented. This was working OK...
If you have a mixer shower with gravity fed hot and cold mains, can you get a pump to pressurise the hot? I have been told that doing this is not good plumbing practice but I do not fully understand why? Can someone explain? Is it possible if you use a negative head/universal pump?
We’ve just moved house and it has a hot water tank in the upstairs cupboard which is fed by a Worcester boiler. The hot water taps are then fed from the tank by a salamander pump. The pump itself makes a bit of a racket when it kicks in, not sure if this is normal as I haven’t encountered this...
Hoping someone can help.
I just had a refit for my en suite bathroom, previous the shower head would activate the shower pump (for two showers in the house) but with the new shower unit (thermostatic valve and larger sunflower head unit) when I turn the shower on a small trickle of water flows...
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I am currently trouble shooting a problem on my rain fall shower. We noticed a sudden drop in water pressure on the hot water but only for the shower. The water pressure is ok until you increase the demand for the hot water, the pressure then drops and the pump cuts out. As soon as you...
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I was hoping if I can get some advice please. I have a theee bedroom terraced house which has a shower on the ground floor and a bathroom on the second. Combi boiler is newish Worcester 34CDI.
When the kitchen tap is turned on the pressure/flow is fine but if someone wants to use the tap...
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I've just fitted a salamander Force CT 30 SU in the airing cupboard to boost the pressure to all the hot taps in the house.
The pressure is phenomenal but there is a high speed whine coming from the pump, I suspect cavitation caused by the elbows between the hot water cylinder and pump...
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Just replaced my Salamander CT 50 Xtra this weekend after it stopped working...
Basically turned the shower on one day and nothing.
Investigated, pump mounted under bath and found the pump too hot to touch.
Checked filters, totally clear, so took impeller housing off and found shaft...
Does anyone have experience of the new Salamander RP100TU? If have just installed one to replace my leaking ESP100. ESPs no longer available this is the replacement universal pump. I have had 2 ESPs previously both running in Neg Head mode. The first had P,N switch on the side, the second...
I have a hotwater tank on the 1st floor of my house and a cold water tank in the loft. Hot and cold water pipes are both 22mm and are split in the loft to feed 2 showers on the 1st floor. One of the showers seems to be designed for low-pressure and the other for high pressure because the low...
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I've just fitted a Salamander shower pump. When testing it works very well on the cold but will not cut in at all on the hot.
I live in a bungalow with a gravity fed system. The hot water cylinder is in an airing cupboard and the pump is located in the loft above the shower.
I'm...