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Mira Showers – Your Best Bet

Shower Brands
on February 14th, 2010 by - No Comments

Mira Showers have been in the business of shower making for more than eighty years and their products are exported to more than forty countries.

It’s great to have wide variety to choose from, but at the same time it is quite perplexing too. But, understanding the kind of arrangement you have at home for hot and cold water would simplify the problem to a good extent. Just understand that all over the world there are two kinds of water systems in homes.

Low pressure Mira shower for the gravity hot water system

You see, the pressure with which water comes out of your shower depends upon two factors. One is the height of the tank above the shower and the other, the volume of water it has. Of course there is some room for manipulating the pressure by having some attachments at the end of the shower. The higher the tank above the shower, the greater is the pressure. This pressure is insufficient for most people who like to have a powerful shower. For such pressure, termed as low pressure, Mira has low water pressure shower. Unless you have a very good pressure or happen to be on a tight budget, such showers are not recommendable. Another feature you should take note of is that the connection from the cold tank to your shower must always be below the cold fill to your cylinder that stores hot water for Mira shower. This is to ensure that the user doesn’t get scolded in the event of cold-water tank running out of water.

High pressure Mira shower when you add shower pumps

To get water at high pressure it is necessary to have a pump that builds up the pressure. They are not very expensive and surely provide a different experience while showering. Plumbers generally recommend salamander Pumps and they are one of the best-known manufacturers of pumps. However, the operation of shower pumps is a bit noisy. If the walls of your house are thin, you may have to consider soundproofing arrangement or locate the pump strategically, traditionally it is housed in the loft or next to the cylinder.

Along with your Salamander pump, you would need to buy “hot flange connection”, a device that prevents undesirable water problem and facilitates installation. The following three types are available.

1. S Type Flange 1″ x 22mm compressed top entry flange

2. Essex Flange 15 (no stop) 15mm for RSP 45 & NP50 Salamander Pumps only

3. Essex Flange 22 22mm for all other Salamander Pumps

High pressure Mira showers for Combination Boilers

Installation of Mira showers is further facilitated if you already have a combination boiler facility as it eliminates the requirements of many components and complex pipe work. You just need to fix a tee close to your hot and cold pipe work. Generally, combination boilers have a capacity of delivering nine liters of hot water per minute. If you find that insufficient, you need to buy a boiler with higher KW rating. These days you may even get a boiler combination to deliver fourteen liters of hot water a minute or even more.

Irrespective of the system you choose, it is very important that the installation of Mira shower is designed to get hot and cold water at equal pressure. That can be obtained by use of pressure regulators. Else, you may take your cold supply from a tank or use a pressure vessel with balanced hot and cold supplies.

Commissioning your Mira shower: New pipe work should always be flushed thru before connecting it to your shower. This action removes all the debris or wire wool etc. that might have been used at the time installation of piping. Blowing down the pipe and passing small volume of clean water thru it can achieve it.

It must be added here that the above be treated as a brief guideline only for installation of Mira showers. You should always consult a qualified plumber before purchasing a system and its installation.

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Shower Tray – How To Buy It?

General
on January 24th, 2010 by - No Comments

Choosing the right shower tray while installing a shower system in your bathroom is vitally important as it forms the foundation of shower enclosure. You get these trays in a number of shapes, from a simple rectangle to a pentagon. The large variety of designs is certainly accompanied with a large range of prices too. It depends upon your budget and the kind of looks you want your bathroom to have. This may be a plain simple look or a very luxurious look. But, before you make a hasty decision, you’ll need to consider a few factors.

So where do I start in choosing the perfect shower tray?

Apart from financial budget, the most important factor that decides the tray for your bathroom is the size of your bathroom and the space available for installing the tray. And the most practical way of assessing the available space is to make a drawing of your bathroom and consider different possibilities for placing your bathroom fixtures and sanitary wares.

Though a shower enclosure may be located anywhere in the bathroom, its exact location is dependent on the location of doors, windows and other fixtures as well the shape of the tray you like to install.

Certainly, you would like to have a roomy area for the shower with convenient entry and exit points, but other bathroom fixtures should not crowd the space.

For the purpose it will be worth consulting your plumber who can know the present layout of the piping and assess the requirements and route of further piping, if required. The plumber will be able to help deciding the position of fixtures and joists.

Once you have taken into consideration all the above parameters, you are better equipped to choose your ideally suited shape of your shower tray. Well, there is no dearth of shapes and sizes of shower trays, which are available in square, rectangular, pentangle, quadrant, offset quadrant, offset pentangle shapes. You may have it in “U’ shape, better known as a “D” shaped shower tray.

The perfect shower tray for the bathroom depends upon many factors, most important of which are the space available for its installation, your financial budget and the style you like to have.

For a better understanding of the subject you may seek the help of a plumber or get in touch with a bathroom supplier for expert guidance on the kind of tray that will be most suitable for your bathroom.

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Best Shower Head – How To Find It?

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on January 11th, 2010 by - No Comments

While deciding for a shower head for your bathroom just keep in mind that everybody in the family is going to use it almost everyday and you should seriously consider different available options.

The purpose of having a shower goes beyond just keeping your body neat and clean to meet the basic demands of hygiene. It has therapeutic values, helps to bring down stress levels and provides relief from pain in certain cases. Above all, it is such a pleasure at the end of a hard day.

To come up to the expectations of the users, the manufacturers and designers have extended the accessories of a bathroom beyond a simple toilet, shower and a washbasin. The market is flooded with a variety of accessories that one could have in the bathroom, but personal preferences matter the most. However, factors other than purely personal choice and style have to be taken into consideration to select the right equipment for the family. Needless to remind that here’s something that you are not likely to replace frequently.

You have to take care of the technicalities of the product. Something that you may like probably won’t fit in your design of bathroom. Fitment doesn’t mean physical dimensions only; it includes plumbing and other arrangements too. For instance, one of the very popular models of showerhead called as the traditional English shower rose needs a much higher pressure for its operation and you may be required to have a pressure pump for building up the needed pressure.

The modern showerheads are available in different designs and provide more than just delivering the much-needed spray of water. You get automated shower heads for adjusting the angle, spray pattern and pressure of out coming water, enabling every member to make adjustments to his or her liking.

You also get multifunctional showerhead that may bend to alter the flow and pattern of water, or there’s one with a double head that delivers two sprays, or you may like a softer flow of water, the rose head that sprays you like a gentle rain shower.

Fixed or Hand Held Shower Heads?

Showerhead may be fixed or hand held. The working of each is different as are its plus and negative features. A fixed showerhead as is clear from its name is fixed in the ceiling or wall and delivers a steady spray in predefined fixed area.

This variety adds decorative appeal to the room, coming with stylish designer looks. The limitation is that such showers do not allow water to be sprayed around at different angles. Generally, the fixed variety is more expensive as compared to hand held designs. Not only their initial cost is more, even the day-to-day repairs are also costlier. It may involve additional plumbing as all the connecting pipe work is hidden behind the walls. Further, its height remains fixed, so the bather can’t adjust the height of the shower to his/her own height. So, at the time of installation you need to consider the average height of the members of the family.

A hand held shower head gets attached to the wall with brackets known as an adjustable riser rail that allows you to change the height of the shower with the attached flexible hose. This variety may lack the looks and appeal of a fixed showerhead, but it offers great versatility that can be put to good use. You can quickly remove the showerhead for cleaning of the shower area and adjust it at appropriate height for your child or pet.

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