Power shower: Something one can install oneself?

[The Medway Handyman]

I have a Mira Vigour power shower

It's a white box on the wall containing a pump & takes H&C from tanks.

[The Medway Handyman]

Mine does exactly that. An RCD socket of course.

[MM]

It's the latter kind, i.e. the white box in the bathroom. I used one at a bed and breakfast recently and I was amazed how constant the temperature remained. It was a Mira.

MM

[MM]

No, I don't have a shower (which is crazy. All new houses should come as standard with a shower AND a bidet).

MM

[MM]

It's this kind I'm thinking of.

No, I don't have a shower yet. Only a bath. The electric shower, should I decide to get one, will be fitted over the bath and a shower curtain installed.

MM

[Andy Burns]

Well, it would be notifiable work as it's a new circuit in a bathroom (aka special location) have a look at some fitting instructions to see if you'd be comfortable with extending the cold feed (presumably nearby from bath/sink) and running a suitably sized, protected and sensible routed cable, e.g.

I've already got an umbrella stand ...

[The Medway Handyman]

I have one and its excellent.

[Robin]

Have you and/or your SO tried a Japanese bog with automatic opening lid, auto-locating heated spray or jet washer (pulsed or steady), rear/"lady" option, warm air drier etc etc?

PS Am I right in thinking that the regs would allow one to be installed in a loo (ie room w/o bath or shower) and powered from a socket without, on an existing installation, even RCD protection? I'm not usually risk averse but ...

[Davey]

Certainly no room for a slab! Just want to pump the shower. The existing mixer tap can stay in place.

The pipes from the hot and cold tanks are both 22mm, and go direct to the bath. Flowrate doesn't appear to be a problem, filling the bath is easy and quick, but the head available for a shower is the hard part, the header tanks are just above the ceiling. For a shower head, there is basically nothing there.

Back some time ago, I might have tackled it myself. Nowadays, it's easier to let good local folks who know the ever-changing rules do it, especially with bathroom electrics.

[MM]

Well, I didn't, Clever Clogs. So now I'm doing something about it. Thank you for your contribution.

MM

[ARW]

That is not a pumped electric shower.

This is a pumped electric shower

[Andy Burns]

Smaller than I might have expected, but as the O/P has mains-pressure cold water throughout his house he doesn't want a pumped shower, just an electric shower.

[The Medway Handyman]

Never said it was :-)

It's what I would call a power shower e.g. it takes water from the cold & hot water tanks and has an in built pump.

So thats a shower that electrically heats the water and has a pump?

[The Medway Handyman]

Rod is the usenet village idiot :-)

[John Rumm]

Fairly rare though it has to be said.

[ARW]

Yes - hence the name "pumped electric shower"

[ARW]

Yes. But the cost of the 10mm T&E cable etc.

[Davey]

Good analogy. One thing not perfect should be no reason to reject an otherwise great choice of a home.

[MM]

Correct!

MM

[MM]

If one is like Rod Speed, one is perfect anyway...

MM