(April 10, 2025 at 11:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:Seems ok to me, I think my boiler has a flow rate of something like 11.5 litres / min. Which is about that, and my shower pins me to the cubicle, well not quite, but it's more than sufficient. The highest flow rate from a combi boiler in the UK is 25 litres / min, I just checked. That's 5.5 imperial gallons. I guess if you have a massive bath to fill, otherwise mine is more than adequate.(April 10, 2025 at 2:56 pm)Sheldon Wrote: I don't know how toilets flush in the US, but in the UK, it has fuck all to do with mains water pressure. That only dictates how quickly the cistern fills, the volume of the cistern determines the power of the flush. Likewise mains water pressure per se has nothing to do with the pressure from a mixer shower, fed by a combi boiler, it's the pump in the boiler that determine how many litres / min come through the shower head. I am pretty sure you can increase the pressure through an electric shower with an independent pump as well. Maybe Trump can't afford a big enough boiler? I guess if they're made of gold it can be quite expensive.
Or does Senator Palpatine know something I don't?
Apparently, the problem isn’t toilet flushes; it’s the Obama and Biden administrations throttling shower heads’ capacity from 2.5 gallons per minute per nozzle to 2.5 gallons per minute per showerhead.
Is this restriction is on mains water pressure? If not I wonder how they enforce it, as combi boilers have their own pump, and you can fit pumps to electric showers to increase to pressure at the nozzle? Do they do spot checks on your showers or something?
