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Colin2307

Help pls - I have just purchased a 5 bed house with cloakroom including shower, family bathroom with bath and shower, guest on suite with shower and master on suite with bath and walk in shower. The mains provides 2 bars/20-25 litres flow rate. The current mains is 22mm and I'm thinking of increasing this to 32mm to increase the flow rate. Currently the house is a vented system with small cylinder and 1995 glow work floor standing boiler. What is the best solution that is going to allow me to have more than one shower running at the same time and efficient heat to the house.

Many thanks

Colin
 
Hi Colin ,

Your best option is to have a system boiler installed with unvented hot water cylinder , out of 20-25L supply you can easy feed two showers at the same time !
Installation will need a competent person to deal with it .
If you dont have one to do it for you , you can list your location and a trusted fitter will be in contact with you .

Stan
 
Hi Colin ,

Your best option is to have a system boiler installed with unvented hot water cylinder , out of 20-25L supply you can easy feed two showers at the same time !
Installation will need a competent person to deal with it .
If you dont have one to do it for you , you can list your location and a trusted fitter will be in contact with you .

Stan

Sound advice. :)
 
Thanks All for advice. Of course competent person will install I've had three plumbers look at it - 2 said system and the other combi. Question now is what type of system boiler - one plumber said Worcester and the other said Valiant? Also re cyclinders I have read lots on this site regarding which one and seems to down to Megaflo or Gledhill? Any thoughts on size location is not an issue.

Thanks

Colin
 
Cheers competent person always. How about boilers and cyclinders any views on which makes/models? Having a number of threads on this site it seems to be down to Geldhill or Megaflo for the cyclinder and Valiant or Worcester for the boiler?

Thanks Colin
 
I have friends in low places - I associate -DRINK really - with some British Gas - service/clear up
men - not the installation boys. They tell me that Worcs boliers are poo but the figures hold
out for the Easter Bunny Boilers - Vaillant - so buy what u like but ITS when not IF it goes wrong
then you need it fixed NOW - so no silly boilers with bits made on an anvil at the north pole.


No doubt others here will have their say and thats fine - thats my advice based on 30+
years specifyin, installing , selling and keeping customers over that many years


centralheatking
 
where are you based?

I did a similar job last week, Telford Tempest 300 litre unvented cylinder with Worcester 40cdi heat only boiler converted to sealed system with 18 litre expansion vessel.

2 showers worked brilliantly at the same time but this was from 3 bar incoming mains pressure and a 22mm cold supply to cylinder.

In a few weeks I'm doing a Telford Tornado 200 litre and Worcester 30cdi system boiler in a smaller house but it will still do 2 showers at once.

Telford seem to be by far the best value, lifetime guarantee and the 300 litre tempest is only £478+ vat. unbeatable.
 

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