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Top 5 Hygiene Products To Help Prevent Legionella
Published: 12 May 2023 ・ Read time: 5 mins
While cases of legionnaires’ disease have been decreasing year on year, it’s important to continue keeping our waterways clean and sanitised to keep that number down. There were still nearly 300 cases of illnesses caused by legionella in 2020, with most of those cases appearing between July and August.
Legionella is prone to growing within purpose-built water systems, including those that feed into houses and other accommodation. There are lots of options when it comes to preventing legionella throughout these waterways, from specially designed shower heads to temperature kits.
Whether you're a homeowner looking to keep your family safe, an accommodation provider looking to protect your tenants, or a tradesperson looking to install an easy-to-clean bathroom for your customers, this list is full of easy-to-install products to safeguard against legionella.
1. Rada SF1-60 Shower Head
Showering is one of the easiest ways to ingest water droplets containing legionella, making washrooms the most important part of the house when it comes to protecting against the bacteria. Due to this, a good, hygienic showerhead is essential for every household and accommodation type.
Our pick of the bunch is the brand-new Rada SF1-60 Shower Head. It’s ideal for easy-to-use, top-of-the-line protection, and features removable coloured indicator rings, a spray plate, & nozzle mat, giving you easy access during your cleaning routines and providing a quick and simple method to see when the showerhead was last sterilised.
It has a flow regulator option, allowing you to cap the flow rate to 6 litres per minute to save electricity, water, and money.
The Rada Shower Head is particularly great for education accommodation providers looking for an easy way to keep their students safe whilst keeping both water bills and environmental impact as low as possible.
Not only will it save you money, it’s also WRAS-approved, guaranteeing you the peace of mind that you’re using the best product around.
Key Benefits:
- Coloured indicator rings to support quarterly cleaning & sterilisation regimes
- WRAS approved & compliant with UK guidelines
- Water & energy saving with the option for a 6-litre flow regulator per minute
- Removable spray plate & nozzle mat
2. Armitage Shanks Contour 21 Sequential Thermostatic Basin Mixer
Along with showering, using taps to wash your hands and brush your teeth is an easy way to consume water particles containing legionella, so ensuring your taps are safe and simple to clean is crucial for keeping everyone safe.
This Basin Mixer by Armitage Shanks is designed with the most recent hygiene innovations in mind, featuring an anti-legionella surface, an easy-to-service design, and self-regulating hot water to ensure safety when in use.
It removes the need for premixed water, as the dual-pipe system can be attached to a hot water tank and cold water tank separately. This helps save water as it only releases what is needed when turned on.
It’s suitable for use in commercial sites as well as domestic bathrooms, and is DDA compliant, meaning it’s highly suitable for use in bathrooms designed for disabled people.
Key Benefits:
- Suitable for commercial and home use
- DDA compliant
- Water saving
- Eliminates the need for premixed water
- Anti-legionella
- Durable
- Easy to clean
- Fits to a standard pillar tap hole
3. Reliance Water Company Anti-Legionella Valve
If you aren’t looking to change out your visible hardware, this valve is perfect for you. The Reliance Anti-Legionella Valve works to protect you, your household, or your tenants in the background.
The easy-to-install valve features a ball valve to make maintenance a breeze, and it prevents stagnations throughout your pipes by switching single-connection expansion vessels into flow-through vessels.
Whether you’re attaching it to a boiler or a circulating pump, this valve can fit on any standard vessel, ranging from the smallest up to the largest sizes. It continues to maintain circulation through all expansion vessels, keeping them clean and making it far less likely for legionella bacteria to grow.
Key Benefits:
- WRAS approved
- Easy to install
- Simple to maintain
- Can be used on any standard vessel from 19.05mm up to 31.75mm
- Prevents stagnations
- Maintains circulation through expansion vessels
4. TPI Legionnaires Temp Kit
Legionella bacteria are known to multiply rapidly in water with temperatures between 20°C and 45°C, so it’s of vital importance that water systems are checked regularly to ensure they are at the right temperature. For tradespeople looking to maintain safety with existing products or to check newly installed plumbing, this TPI Legionnaires Temp Kit is a staple for your bag.
The three probes can be used to measure temperatures from -50°C all the way up to 1350°C, shown on the easy-to-read LCD display screen. Choose between T1, T2, and the differential temperature to quickly and simply check in on water in storage, pipes, and storage tanks throughout the entire water system.
Automatically calibrate your thermometer in under 10 seconds using ice water, ensuring high accuracy from -1°C up to 49°C and letting you quickly check the temperature in each section of plumbing.
Key Benefits:
- Includes carry case, thermometer, & 3 probes
- Measures from -50°C to 1350°C across probes
- Displays T1, T2, & differential temperatures
- Minimum & maximum record function
- Auto field calibration
- Auto-off
- Easy-to-read LCD display
5. Recoup Easyfit Waste Water Heat Recovery System
If you’ve seen the recent trend of waste water heat recovery systems but are concerned about their potential for growing and spreading legionella, this Recoup Easyfit Waster Water Heat Recovery System is the perfect no-compromise solution.
It is designed to retrofit underneath standard bath basins and shower trays, allowing you to easily install it under your current bathroom fixings. It improves your energy efficiency by recovering up to 46.7% of the wasted heat created with every shower or bath, which has a noticeable impact on your heating bills.
It’s also WRAS-approved and legionella control risk assessed, keeping you safe in the knowledge that it was made using high-quality materials and will ensure your family, tenants, or clients will be safe when they use their bathroom.
Key Benefits:
- Designed to retrofit under standard bath or shower trays
- Efficient
- Recovers up to 46.7% of wasted heat with every shower
- Easy to install
- WRAS approved
- Legionella control risk assessed
Whether you’re a homeowner, a professional, or any kind of accommodation provider, it’s important to create safe, hygienic water systems that limit the spread of legionella and stop it at the source.
City Plumbing stocks everything required for water systems that are not only hygienic but stylish and cost-effective, too.
Click here to see our expansive bathroom range, and here to view our range of plumbing essentials.
Any questions? Our friendly branch teams can offer help & advice on a personal level, giving you the ultimate peace of mind when making a purchase. Click here to find your local branch.
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