New Electric Shower

[JP]

Can anyone recommend a good electric shower, the bathroom is already wired with 10mm cable and I'm interested in the best one I can find for anything upto £250.

Advice / opinions please,

thanks in advance.

JP

 

[securespark]

This is only personal experience.

Gainsborough/Redring/Showerforce prone to faults

Triton m-o-t-r

Mira better than average, although not as good as they once were.

 

[Big_Spark]

Can anyone recommend a good electric shower, the bathroom is already wired with 10mm cable and I'm interested in the best one I can find for anything upto £250.

Advice / opinions please,

thanks in advance.

JP

One question, how do you heat your hot water?

Gas or electric?

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

m-o-t-r

?????

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Middle Of The Road/Range.

DTTKU

 

[securespark]

Cheers, ban!

 

[JP]

Combi boiler heats the hot water so I was advised to for an electric shower, have I had the right advice ?

I have seen an 11Kw one by a company called "Essentials" and B & Q gave it top marks in their "unbiased" test.

Anyone heard of "Essentials"?

JP

 

[breezer]

if you have a combi (like me) why do you want an electric shower?

 

[securespark]

Is that the same B & Q that commissioned mira to make a cheaper shower for them??

 

[Big_Spark]

If you have a combi shower you don't need an electric one, just a shower unit that is compatible with a combi boiler

 

[AdamW]

As everyone is saying, with a combi you don't need an electric shower. Now let's explain why:

A combi produces instantaneous hot water. This means that you don't need to use space and electricity to hold a tank of hot water and keep it hot.

An electric shower produces instantaneous hot water too...

Key differences are, combi boilers (if I have this right) have a higher energy output (30kW is a figure in my head) so you can have a higher flowrate for a given water temperature. Also combi hot water is cheaper per kilowatt as gas is half the price of electricity. And the final advantage, with a combi you don't need to have a whacking great ugly box bolted onto your bathroom wall. Instead you can have stylish, elegant fittings.

Bit of a bu**er for you seeing as you already have your 10mm cable in place! If you want a combi shower you will need to run hot and cold pipes instead of just the cold pipe.

 

[JP]

I think the electric option is best for me because I'm not planning on being here long enough to reap the reward of cheaper gas and I don't want to disturb the tiling.

I shouldn't be trusting B & Q's advice then.

Where should I go for advice ?
Where is the best place for me to buy one from ?

Cheers
JP

 

[Big_Spark]

JP, perhaps you should look into this more, the disturbance for an electric shower will be no less or greater that for the electric one.

However, if you want a shower (electric), find a Plumb Centre in the local area, or a dedicated Bathroom shop, they will have more info for you than B&Q.

The Best Showers about at the moment would appear to be Mira and Gainsborough. Triton used to be the best, but the last few years have lost their quality somewhat.

 

[Juno 60]

Feeding a shower direct from the combi boiler has distinct advantages as mentioned above, but some combi boilers really struggle to feed showers with hot water at a constant temp. Both my sister's and girlfriend's combi boiler-fed showers go from pleasantly warm to cold and back again all the time. I would go for an electric given that the circuit is already in place, and for your budget I would recommend the latest Mira Advance. I have a Triton 9.5 kW and it performs superbly, though I would like a more powerful unit eventually for decent flow rate during the winter, when incoming mains water temp. is much lower.

 

[securespark]

Would a thermostatically controlled valve help?