Two Very Different Products Sold Under One Name

The cheap way to make a water saving shower head is to take a standard handset and push a flow insert into the inlet. Flow drops, the number on the pack looks right, and the shower feels weak. End users notice within a week and the insert comes out with a pair of pliers.

The other way is to design the spray body so that a lower volume of water still arrives with force and coverage. That usually means smaller orifices, a redesigned plenum and often air introduced into the stream. Our New Water Saving Products range holds three models built this way: the multicolour over head shower CM900, the curlicue hand shower CM313 and the visual oxygen hand shower CM600.

Why Air Mixing Changes The Feel

General principle rather than a product claim: drawing air into the water stream increases the apparent volume and softens the impact of each droplet. A stream carrying air feels fuller at a lower flow rate than a solid stream does. This is the mechanism behind aerated handsets and behind the faucet aerators our own homepage lists among the company's water saving products.

Pressure Is Half The Answer

A handset does not have one flow rate. It has a flow rate at a given supply pressure. Our published working water pressure range is 6 to 12 kg. A figure measured at the top of that window will not be reproduced at the bottom of it, which is why we send data rather than a single headline number and why we ask for your supply pressure at enquiry stage.

How To Check A Claim Before It Goes On A Pack

  • Ask for the flow figure and the pressure it was measured at. A number without a pressure is not a specification.
  • Ask whether the reduction comes from the spray body or from a removable insert.
  • Test in your own market water at your own pressure, not only in the factory.
  • For a formal efficiency programme, budget for an independent test in the destination market.

Building A Programme Rather Than A Product

A single water saving handset is a shelf item. A programme needs a fixed head, a handset, a hose and usually a bar. The three purpose built water saving models sit next to 108 shower models in the same plant, which means a trial can turn into a range without changing supplier and without repeating the qualification.

Our published MOQ of 1,000 pieces is deliberately low enough for that trial to be real.