Our customer lives in an area of Crystal Palace where the water supplier has in the last 12 months reduced the pressure in the mains.
The secret to successful showering is in the garage
This has resulted in a pressure just above 1bar on the lower ground floor; this house is on 4 stories and there are bathrooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The result was that the bath took ages to fill, the shower on the 3rd floor could not be used, and the shower on the 2nd floor was poor.
Protests to Thames Water from most of the residents in the immediate area did not result in satisfaction, because they were supplying over the statutory minimum pressure to the bottom floor of the property.
Hot water in these properties is supplied through a Gledhill Systemate III heatstore.
Hot Water & Central Heating were asked to provide a solution for the problem, retaining the existing boiler and heatstore.
We fitted a TCWS Charger and Mainsboost system in the lower floor garage. This innovative patented unit consists of a pumpset and an accumulator. The pumpset uses less than 12 litres per minute and incorporates anti backflow protection, enabling it to be connected directly to the water main.
TCWS Charger and Mainsboost in garage
It is very quiet in operation, and charges a large accumulator on a ‘trickle’ basis to replicate the performance of an accumulator on a 3bar main.
The Pump incorporates programming to manage the duty cycle and the maximum/minimum pressure. Once commissioned, the system needs no further adjustment and will continue to run in a power cut. If the pumpset fails, an automated bypass allows the mains to still enter the property without user intervention.
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Following commissioning, our customer was very happy with the results, which now means that all bathrooms are fully back in operation. We have already been asked to provide two other nearby households with quotations for similar systems.
Stop Press: Following the success of this installation, Hot Water & Central Heating have received an order to install an identical system to the house next door in May 2009.
