Electric Shower Quote - what do you think

[John]

Any thoughts on this quote for an electric shower for my daughter's bloke's house:

A plumber has quoted £100.

The house has 3 separate fuse boxes at the moment (it has night storage wasters) The Shower chosen is a Mira Sport 10+ Kw I believe. The bathroom has an unsuitable light fitting.

The electrician has quoted thus:

"He says that the shower circuit and fuse board will cost £565 to install to current standards, including all parts and labour.

The extractor fan needs to be low voltage, he can install a new compliant one for £120, or simply disconnect the old one leaving us with no extractor.

Finally, we can buy the light fitting for the bathroom for approx £15 which he will fit or he can fit four recessed spotlights that lie flush in the ceiling for £85."

[A.Lee]

Just to fit the shower to the wall, and connect to the water, and not to fit an electric connection? Sounds a little expensive for that. Or, to run a cable from the fusebox to the shower, and get it fully working? Thats reasonable to get it fully working.

Again, sounds a little expensive to fit a new Consumer unit, but we dont have many details, so it may be alright, or well overpriced.

Fans are £20 upwards, easily fitted in a hour if they can be spurred off an existing circuit, so £120 does sound expensive. However, if it is a dedicated spur from the Fusebox, then it is about right.

£85 to supply and fit 4, or he'll fit the one you bought for nothing? £85 to fit 4 spotlights is £35 too much, if supply and fit, sounds about right. More detaisl needed to give a better answer. Alan.

[John]

The current fuses are over the front door - the shower will be upstairs on the inside of the back wall of the house - a fair run.

The plumbing included chrome pipe and doing some tinkering under the bath to stop it moving. All stuff I could do - but I won't!

[Andrew Gabriel]

If you posted a photo of the fuseboxes, some of us could offer suggestions about if the whole lot really needs replacing, or if he's just making work for himself. He isn't required to bring your whole house up to current regs. Neither can I recall any reason you need a LV fan in the bathroom unless it's in the shower (but I don't have current regs to hand to check). I think it just needs to be IPX4 rated, which it already will be unless it's anchient. He could probably just put in an RCD protected shower circuit and RCD protected bathroom light/fan circuit.

[ARWadsworth]

Main equipontential bonding will need to be installed if it is not already in place before a new circuit is added. A seperate RCD unit for the shower will be fine and there is no requirment to change all the fuse boards. SELV fans do not cost anywhere near £120 and as the wiring and the hole for the fan is already in place it seems a little expensive.

Adam

[Bob Mannix]

Well, he wasn't saying he was, just that you have to connect a new circuit to an in-regs CU. I had the same with my kitchen - an extra £300 to replace the CU, then they could connect all the old crappy house circuits and the new kitchen one to it.

The electrician explained that the cost had to cover the eventualities such as the previous job he had been on - whole house working, fit new CU with RCD, RCD trips. Can't leave customer with no electric so time consuming search for fault which has to be paid for. Seemed fair. We held our breath and mine turned on and stayed on.

£575 - say £300 for CU change and £175 to run new circuit through house to shower isolation? - I would expect about that.

[Bob Mannix]

Ooops - theres £100 missing! Probably a bit expensive then :o)