Electric Showers - safe or not ?

[Belrose]

The new house we shall shortly (hopefully...) be moving in to has three electric showers. We have always had mains showers (Aqualisa) and I am really quite nervous about the electric ones ! I haven't seen any reports of people coming to a nasty end but would nevertheless like some reassurance !

Thanks !

 

[Chivers7]

Nothing wrong with electric showers. If you want added safety then have an electrician fit an RCD to each one of them if they don't already have them.

 

[securespark]

As long as they are competently & correctly installed, have RCD protection & the supply can handle the load (or there is a system in place to prevent energisation of more than one unit at the same time), they should be safe.

 

[Belrose]

Thank you very much Chivers 7 and securespark. I'll get our electrician to check that we have all the things you mention installed.

 

[ricicle]

Your supply fuse or water supply might not like the possibility of 3 showers running at the same time

EDIT:Sorry Secure just re-read your bit about the loading