How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

The taste thing is negated by buying one with a carbon filter. I get paid extra for those too 😅

The screw on ones reduce your flow rate.
A proper system is big but it will filter out a lot of the nasty crap which is in your water.
I was comparing UK vs US data for water quality and whilst ours isn't as bad, I'm still surprised more people don't have water filtration systems.

In the states there's a PE business who are rolling up lots of contractor businesses one of their main focusses is on whole home water treatment. There's not a similar option here - Harvey water I suppose?

GOOD INFO THERE, thanks. I guess I wouldn't miss the flow rate on the main kitchen tap but wouldn't want to lose any on the showers (so obvs just have one in the kitchen).

Otherwise I'm back to and doubling down on - how do I get more pressure to my loft shower when I have a combi boiler.

You're unlikely to lose pressure when using warm water as that'll be from the tank (which was filled by the softener) and not the softener directly (in real time or whatever).

more pressure

One of those pressure pump things?

A mate put one in his Edwardian top floor flat. Night and day.

No loft tank if it’s a combi. Also no loft.

OH REALLY?

Whenever I have googled I get mixed results, either totally impossible never cant put a pump on the mains it'll never work what are you even thinking, and the other, just buy a salamander pump.

Pretty sure ive heard the same when talking to trades too.

Please tell me more... are you able to even ask your pal for some more deets? Does it go pre or post boiler?

He's left building but I can check how he did it. It came out of an A-lister's Primrose Hill refurb iirc, and my memory was he fitted it himself.

I thought it was after the boiler, albeit in the same cupboard. My folks looked into it and it was proposed to go in the bathroom in a cupboard which would obvs be post boiler - although theirs wasnt a combi.

Ahh, so very different, key thing is boiler type I believe.

https://plumbhq.uk/collections/combi-boiler-compatible-shower-pumps#:~:text=Most%20boiler%20manufacturers%20state%20the,used%20after%20the%20combination%20boiler.

Looks promising and theoretically possible

I put one of those on the hot feed to our shower mixer (coming from an unvented cylinder). We’re on some kind of shared supply for mains cold, occasionally the shower would be reduced to a dribble. It’s not increased the pressure generally but the dribble never happens now. Considering boosting the cold too to see if we can get hotel shower vibes.

Better support / warranty / returns if you buy direct.

https://showerpowerbooster.co.uk/shop/

Almost there

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Cons

tastes a bit weird

I'd always put the kitchen on a separate run so it isn't softened. Doesn't help with the bathroom tap though.

Ditto. We just have a 3 way kitchen tap with a hard water bypass for the drinking.

tastes a bit weird

Isn't the received wisdom that you don't have it connected to the cold tap in the kitchen?

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What they said ^

It's was mainly a joke. But also so there were 3 bullets in each category.

I thought you had it connected to the kitchen tap so your kettle could benefit.

Soft hot, soft cold, hard cold. Fill the kettle from the soft cold.

Shower tiled. Grout tomorrow.

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Kitchen & bench seating going in.

Using IKEA carcasses, with our builder cutting the fronts & side-panels from sheets of rotary-cut Douglas Fir ply.

No way we could afford the £18K quoted by Plykea & Holte for their fronts.

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£18K

For essentially what is pictured here?!?

You could almost get half a kitchen for that!

Nah, the £18K quotes were for the fronts & side panels etc for the entire kitchen.

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OK. That makes more sense.

Sort of.

Plykea use to be class, but there prices are fuckin mental now.