Showers

When choosing a shower system for your home, you need to find the best and most compatible one for you, and will fit your plumbing. If your system is fed by gravity there will be a hot water cylinder and a cold water storage cistern in your loft space your options are: a mixer shower with or without a pump, power shower or an electric shower. Brixton Plumbers can fit showers. If your system uses a combination boiler or the cold water is fed straight from the mains you may only fit a mixer shower or an electric shower, you can’t attach a pump to a combination boiler or mains supply.Shower Selection:Power Shower:The power shower operates the same as a thermostatic mixer shower, with one big difference, it comes with a built-in electrical pump so it can boost at the ware flow rate. It is an good choice if your water pressure is low in your home but this pump is will only work with a gravity fed system.Electric Shower:The electric showers operation is like a kettle, it only needs a cold water supply. This is heated by elements in the shower unit. If the kilowatt rating is high, then, the power developed by the shower is high also, though the strength of its spray might wane in winter as the incoming cold mains water takes longer to heat. A Brixton Plumber is qualified to fit all showers and their plumbing.Basic Mixer:The basic mixer shower is cheap and easy to fit with no new plumbing or electrical connections. The hot and cold water is controlled simply by turning on the bath taps. It is hard to achieve the temperature you want, and the temperature changes if another appliance uses water at the same time.Thermostatic Mixer:With this, you program the temperature with a manual controller and the thermostat cycles the temperature within 2C even if water is drawn from somewhere else in the home. It can be fitted over a bath or in its own separate cubicle. If you have a gravity-fed water system you can fit a booster pump.