Shower recommendations

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accymel

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Can anyone recommend a decent electric shower to buy ? I cant go for power shower as no header tank & boiler water is fed direct from mains supply as power showers require header tank. There is an electrical point & feeder [?? whatever that means] as u can see all complicated LOL!!

Any recommendations or tips be graciously received ??:D
 
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Are you sure you can't use a direct fed shower from your hot and cold supplies?
If you have a combi then your hot water will be at the same (ish) pressure as your cold. I thought you could just stick a shower mixer onto a combi and away you go, lots of nice hot water on your bod.
 
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I think it's a choice between electric shower being mains fed only, or a mixer. Do the mixers have thermostatic control these days? We used to have one connected to a multi point but nobody could run a cold tap or else you ended up lobstered !!
 
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Aye its a combi boiler & yes i have shower mixer taps on atm & mix the hot & cold taps for desired temp but no good for a proper shower tho unless u like the crouched down style & the water temp changes if pulled too high up & pressure drops as temp if someone flushes the loo lol

Im just after a fixed to the wall standup shower just wondering what best to get tho & i dont know what a 'feedpipe' is presumbaly that will be the hot & cold or both dunno with the way they have done the hot water system:confused:
 
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I know someone who has just had a combi fitted and NO they couldn't just get a normal power shower. When ginger comes back i will ask why they couldn't ( must pay attention to other peoples conversations) :D
 
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slinky said:
I know someone who has just had a combi fitted and NO they couldn't just get a normal power shower. When ginger comes back i will ask why they couldn't ( must pay attention to other peoples conversations) :D
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LOL cheers Slinky, i know we cant have a power shower being minus a header tank didnt know it extended to combi boilers too - so thats double buggered for that, so presumabley a standard leccy shower will do or something else :D
 
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accymel said:
LOL cheers Slinky, i know we cant have a power shower being minus a header tank didnt know it extended to combi boilers too - so thats double buggered for that, so presumabley a standard leccy shower will do or something else :D
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Ginger says 95% of the showers will not work with a combi boiler. He says argos has them in that will be suitable for combi boilers, he says it usually says it on them.
 
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slinky said:
Ginger says 95% of the showers will not work with a combi boiler. He says argos has them in that will be suitable for combi boilers, he says it usually says it on them.
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Cool thanks Slinky .......[& Ginger] :D will look there :thumbsup:
 
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I take it you have a shower pipe thingy that is part of your bath taps. Yes they are useless. You need a thermostatic shower mixer as mentioned above so you don't get burnt/freeze when anyone runs another tap.
 
We've got a mira shower and one of those boilers that heats the water up when you turn a tap on. If you're in the shower and somebody turns a tap on the pressure drops but it doesn't get hotter.
 
My shower is electric. I have a combi boiler and I was disappointed, when I needed a replacement shower, that I couldn't have a power-shower but..... in March, during a bitter cold spell, my boiler went wrong. We had no heating and no hot water for 2 days. We did have a hot shower, though, and it was bliss to get out of bed into a freezing cold bedroom and then warm up under it. Bloody cold when you got out of course! :D
 
We decided on an electric shower rather than the mixer types - surprisingly are much dearer than some leccy types:eek:
 
accymel said:
We decided on an electric shower rather than the mixer types - surprisingly are much dearer than some leccy types:eek:
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An electric shower will probably cost more money to run than one that uses hot water from your boiler ( check that out though as I have been known to talk rubbish )
 
Neil said:
An electric shower will probably cost more money to run than one that uses hot water from your boiler ( check that out though as I have been known to talk rubbish )
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I would think thats correct. Although as WestEnder says it's also handy if something goes wrong with the combi, have you ever tried having a bath with a kettle full of water :D
 
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