 Our main Bathroom showers featured ranges are chosen specifically
to complement the basin and bath taps, but we
also have a wide range of bathroom showers that are chosen
to integrate with any existing tap style or
decor.
Avalon Bathroom Showers
This selection of bathroom showers incorporates concealed
and exposed shower valves, manual and thermostatic
controls, concealed and exposed risers and a
broad selection of shower heads to offer a solution
for every requirement.
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902 Multifunction Shower Kit |
La Torre Thermostatic Mixer |
Salic4 Shower Kit |
Bathroom showers covers traditional, modern and contemporary styles and the ranges have been compiled to complement all styles in todays bathrooms. The sophistication of the range provides many technical benefits for the user. The range of bathroom showers designs are extensive including modern and traditional products that complement the Crosswater taps. Throughout this collection you will eye-catching forms which are timless in many ways.
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| 200mm Rain Rose |
Teardrop Mixer |
Kusasi Shower Valve |
Hudson Reed Bathroom Showers
Brassware
Hudson Reed provide luxury bathroom products at desirable prices. They combine comfort and reliability with practicality and quality craftsmanship. The design team have succeeded in providing the best products at prices which are impossible to beat. Innovation in design and production is obvious throughout this extensive collection of modern and traditional bathroom products.
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Traditional Shower kit |
Thermostatic Shower |
Modern Shower Kit |
Grohe Bathroom Showers Brassware
Grohe technology is legendary and Grohe only use top quality materials and the higest technology processes in the creation of their bathroom showers. They gaurantee years of trouble free use. The valves include built in flow and temperature limiters, the intelligent way to save water and power. The fingertip control makes temperature and flow easy to set and is very precise. The water will reach the desired temperature in seconds. Many of the Grohe products are an indisputable highpoint in modern mixer design.
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Grohe Therm Valve |
Grohe Freehander |
Grohe Master Eurostyle |
SHOWERS TYPES
There are four main types of shower, electric, manual mixer, thermostatic mixer and pumped which can be either thermostatic or manual.
Electric showers
This type of shower has a small kettle type chamber within it through which the cold water passes and is heated electrically. The amount of water that can be heated is limited to approximately one and a half gallons a minute, although the spray is forced out of the head at approximately 1.5 bar (45 feet head).
In order to achieve an all over spray from the shower handset the holes in the end of the handset are drilled quite small. The result of this is that the droplets of water spray produced are small and do not hold the temperature. This means that whilst the water temperature on your head is hot by the time the water runs to your knees it has gone cold. One other difficulty with the small hole size is that the handsets are prone to scale build up in hard water areas which results in the spray pattern diminishing.
In order to maximize the amount of water produced modem electric showers use on average 8.5KW to 9KW of power. This makes them three times more costly to use than the electric immersion heater in the cylinder. My own opinion is that they are best used in applications where there is no stored hot water or where a combi-boiler is used for the first shower mixer and the client needs a second shower in the house. Most electric showers are manual mixers and have a tendency to vary the water temperature when other appliances such as taps and toilets are used.
Manual Showers
A manual mixer uses the hot and cold water supply to achieve a shower. This is done by blending the amount of hot and cold by means of a lever valve, which either uses an internal ceramic mixer cartridge or uses two separate controls to achieve the desired temperature by turning simultaneously. This simple mechanism makes the manual valve very cost effective. However this type of mixer is prone to wild variations in temperature when other appliances such as taps, washing machines, dish washers and toilets are used. Not a type of mixer to be recommended for families with small children or older people.
Thermostatic Showers
A thermostatic mixer works in a similar way to the manual mixer but has an extra device fitted inside the valve casing which regulates the water temperature to within plus or minus one degree centigrade. The result of this is that if another appliance is turned on the thermostat automatically adjusts the flow of water to maintain the desired temperature. If it is unable to maintain that temperature then it will temporarily turn the shower off until it is safe to allow it to function. This type of mixer is ideal for families with small children and older people.
Pumped Showers
This is where an electric pump is fitted to the shower to increase the water pressure. This type of system can only be fitted to a gravity feed hot water system. There are two types of pumps generally used:
Inlet Pump (Twin Impellor)
This type of pump is by far the most common is fitted to the hot and cold water supplies before they go through the shower valve. Relatively inexpensive to purchase they provide pressure to the shower of up to 3bar (100ft head) at a flow rate of up to 3 gallons a minute. The most popular pressure is 1.5bar (45 foot head).
Outlet Pump (Single Impellor)
This type of pump is fitted after the valve and pumps the mixed hot and cold water. The advantage of this is that it can safely deliver a higher flow rate and higher pressure. The reason for this is that when you pump water into the valve at pressure it can create an imbalance of pressures at the valve. This is due to the fact that the valve requires more hot water than cold to achieve the correct temperature. The Outlet pump pulls the water through the valve and sets up no such imbalance.
Mixer showers
These showers mix hot and cold water to the desired temperature.
They generally flow faster than electric showers
The flow of these showers can be improved by adding a pump.
Ideal for homes with plentiful water supply either from gravity fed or high pressure systems.
Electric showers
Electric showers take water from the mains cold supply.
These showers heat the water when passing it over a heating element.
Uses stored hot water and are ideal where there is constant demand in large families.
Ready to use at any time of the day or night.
Power showers
Power showers mix the hot and cold water to reach the desired temperature.
They produce a more impressive spray force than mixer or electric showers because a pump boosts the flow.
You can use all-in-one power showers or simply add a pump to mixer showers.
NB You cannot add a pump to a system with an existing high pressure water set up.
Thermostatic showers
These showers maintain a pre-selected temperature.
This prevents water reaching harmful temperatures.
The showers thermostat will adjust the water temperature to compensate for external changes for example a tap running. Thermostatic showers are ideal for young children or elderly people.
There are several types of showers available in the UK and the type you choose has a lot to do with the type of hot water and cold water supply in the house.
Gravity Feed, Vented, or Low Pressure systems
This type of water system usually has a direct mains water cold feed. The hot water is provided by means of a hot water cylinder (copper) sited in an airing cupboard and a cold water cistern (tank) sited either above the cylinder or in the loft. To use a mixer shower with this type of system the cold water tank needs to be sited at least three feet (0.1 bar) above the shower head/handset. That is unless you use a pump, in which case you need the tank to be one foot (0.03bar) above the shower head/handset.
Combi-boiler, Multi-point systems
This type of water system has a mains feed cold water supply. The hot water is provided by an instantaneous gas boiler. The boiler either does both the hot water and central heating (combi-boiler), or it does just the hot water only (multipoint). With this type of system the cold water is supplied at full mains pressure seventy five feet (2.5bar approximately) whilst the hot water is governed down by the boiler to a minimum of forty five feet (1.5bar approximately). With this type of system you cannot use a pump to power the shower as this would contravene the water by-laws. However as the hot and cold water is supplied under pressure you have a power shower anyway.
Pressurised water system, unvented
This type of water system has a mains cold water supply. The hot water supply is from a hot water cylinder which is supplied by full mains pressure of 175 feet (2.5bar approximately). As with the combi-boiler system you cannot use pump but you do not need to as the mains water pressure makes this a power shower. |
