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  1. K

    Choice of Pressure reducing valve

    Thanks for all the advice guys.
  2. K

    Choice of Pressure reducing valve

    Cheers best. I've been going by the rule that if it's close to the hot tank than the gate valves, I ain't touching it so sounds like I should be okay. I saw that episode of mythbusters! Same with the boiler. Too much electric on that for my liking. So, I need flow reducers for the taps to...
  3. K

    Choice of Pressure reducing valve

    The bathroom is 'downstream' of the hot water cylinder, the previous taps were all separate taps and the previous owner who had it installed had the mains go to those taps I'm guessing since the feed from the mains was there and it was easyea than doubling back the cold from the tank to the...
  4. K

    Choice of Pressure reducing valve

    Unvented is next door to the bathroom. Maybe about 3m of pipe between the bath and the taps. KoP, I never thought of that! Bloody hellfire I'm a spoon. I've got a basin upstairs that spews water out the sink when the bairn opens the taps full tilt and it never occurred to me to fit them! A...
  5. K

    Choice of Pressure reducing valve

    Renovating bathroom just now and the wife wants mixer taps throughout. Normal single handle hobbj on the sink and a fancy traditional style beast on the bath. Hot water is supplied from unvented cylinder at 2 bar closed pressure, 1.5 bar ish when flowing full tilt. Cold is supplied from mains...
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