shower flowrate

Emmanuel Pauwels

Owner

Green Living Projects

LEEDuser Premium Member

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October 11, 2017

If multiple-head showers are installed in a single shower compartment, the reference guide states that we need to sum their flow rates and enter the result as one fixture. However, if both showerheads can not be used at the same time, this does not make sense. With a main shower + handshower and a setting that you have to choose one OR the other, it would make sense to indicate the flow rate or the showerhead with the highest flowrate instead of using the sum of both showerheads. Does this make sense?

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Ian Johnson

Senior Director

Linnean Solutions

LEEDuser Expert

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Wed, 10/11/2017 - 15:33

Emmanuel, You are correct in your logic. If it is clear that both the shower head and hand-shower cannot be used at the same time, then you would use the fixture with the greater flow rate. If both showers can be used simultaneously, you would need to include them as one fixture.