Shower Pumps and Low Water Pressure

Having low water pressure in your home or at work causes a number of problems.  The bath takes almost an hour to fill and the shower can be so weak it’s a less than satisfactory experience. All too often water pressure in the home is overlooked, whilst people opt for designer showers or the ultimate power shower range they forget that a really good pump can make all the difference.

UKBathrooms offer great choices when it comes to selecting your shower pump.  Stuart Turner Showermate are very popular as are the Salamander pump range.

Sep 18 20079:38 am

Posted in Shower Pumps

6 Comments

  • mr g humeJun 05 2009
    7:52 pm

    I had a problem with water pressure on the bath hot tap only .. a pump was fitted and it was fine … but just recently we have had fitted a combi boiler working of the main water supply … and have come across te same problem .. can you fit a pump on a comi boiler system

  • shezFeb 20 2010
    7:49 pm

    I am living in a ground floor flat. with electricity only. My col water seems to have enough pressure but my hot water is very low on pressure.

    I have been told that i can buy a special type of pump for this.

    can you please advise as

    Thanks

  • ukbathroomsMar 31 2010
    10:48 am

    Mr Hume - you can not use a shower pump with a combi boiler water heating system. A combi boiler will deliver high pressure and you can normally overide the exact water pressure it delivers through the controls.
    If you remove the pump from the water line i am sure that your water pressure on the hot tap will improve.
    Also another consideration is that the hot water tap you have may have been designed to work off a certain pressure, and if this is higher than what your combi boiler delivers then it will always produce a weak flow.
    ukbathrooms

  • ukbathroomsMar 31 2010
    10:49 am

    Shez - please would you expalin how your hot water is delivered?
    Your cold water pressure should be good as most cold water feeds are from the mains water supply where the water delivered is high pressure.
    Thanks

  • KirstyJan 30 2011
    8:49 pm

    We have a temperature controlled mixer shower and have no problem with the cold water flow but a major problem with the hot water flow and would like to boost just the hot water only.
    We only want to boost it very slightly as the shower just runs a bit slow, we don’t want a ‘power shower’ as we only have a smallish hot water tank, heated by an AGA so the hot water wouldn’t last long with a power shower, we also have slow drainage issues into private drainage and I’m not sure it would cope with a lot of water at once.
    So can you recommend a very low pressure pump that we can fit to the hot water only (15mm pipe) fo a very slight boost to the flow?
    Thank you.

  • davidFeb 13 2011
    1:01 pm

    hi, we have a combi boiler system in a 2 bed house ,our cold water is fine but our hot water is very slow on taps and the shower is unpleasant just a trickle ,can you recomend taps and a shower head that is best for us or something that can improve our hot water . our shower head fixes directly on pipe coming out of wall and our mixer is fixed behind tiled shower
    many thanks

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