Advice on selecting a shower head please

[Graham Bowers]

Hello

I did post a while back and ended up buying a rinnai gas fired water heater to supply hot water. It's quite a clever little device that purports to have a thermostatic mixer valve so it delivers water at a temperature you select...............

I'd appreciate practical opinions on the possibilities for shower heads. I'm driving it with a 7 litre/min 3 bar pump and have a 5 litre accumulator in the system, 15mm HEP2O plumbing and about 4 metres pump to heater run, 0.5 m heater to shower tap run.( Fired up the cold water yesterday for the first time - no leaks mum!) Current plan is to use a bulkhead tap 3/8 bsp in, 3/8 bsp out to get the water in to the shower room but I could probably upsize if needed

The shower in the house delivers about 3 to 4 litres per min and I'm hoping for equivalent or better performance.

 

So, the questions:

 

Would one of the boaty type shower heads with a trigger on it deliver a reasonable flow in the 4 litres per min range please?

 

What do you find successful?

 

Cheers

Graham

PS do the ALDE bubble testers mount to a surface, or hang in mid air supported by the pepework?

[ChrisPy]

sounds interesting.

is the water heater of an approved type for a boat (ie does it comply with BSS) ?

[DHutch]

We just have a normal domestic shower mixer (non thermostatic) and head.

- The seams to work fine with our Shurflo, which i beleave is about 10l/min, and shutoff at about 3bar.

 

 

sounds interesting.

is the water heater of an approved type for a boat (ie does it comply with BSS) ?

Ive had a google, there are several marine sotckests selling rinnai heaters, such as here.

 

 

Daniel

Edited March 19, 2006 by dhutch

[Graham Bowers]

sounds interesting.

is the water heater of an approved type for a boat (ie does it comply with BSS) ?

Hope so! It is a Rinnai REU 58 E

I got it from a chandler and I had to buy a boat flue kit for it.

My understanding of the rules allow flued multi-point water heaters.

I have the installation guide in PDF format if you wish, 261 Kb.

Cheers

Graham

[AndyM]

Cheers

Graham

PS do the ALDE bubble testers mount to a surface, or hang in mid air supported by the pepework?

 

Hi Graham,

 

The ALDE Bubble Tester has two screw holes through the main body and is supplied with two long self tappers to screw it to a surface. BSSC states that the pipework should be supported either side of a joint so I put a pipe support on the pipework both in and out of the tester and my installation passed all OK.

 

Cheers, Andy

[Graham Bowers]

The ALDE Bubble Tester has two screw holes through the main body and is supplied with two long self tappers to screw it to a surface. BSSC states that the pipework should be supported either side of a joint so I put a pipe support on the pipework both in and out of the tester and my installation passed all OK.

 

Cheers, Andy

 

Thanks

Graham

 

 

We just have a normal domestic shower mixer (non thermostatic) and head.

- The seams to work fine with our Shurflo, which i beleave is about 10l/min, and shutoff at about 3bar.

 

Ive had a google, there are several marine sotckests selling rinnai heaters, such as here.

Daniel

Thanks Daniel

Yes, that's the heater I have.

Cheers

Graham