Really dumb question about showers.

[Steve]

Hi guys and Guyesses, This is going to sound really stupid but you don't know me so you can't point at me in the street and laugh so here goes. We are thinking of having a shower put in over the bath so we went looking at showers in various showrooms. 'Er indoors wants one of the fancy thin ones that have jets coming out all over the ship and other fancy stuff. The last time we bought a shower was back in 96 or 97 and it involved a white box stuck on the wall with heat and flow controls and a pipe leading to the shower head + a pipe going to the water supply. OK, here's the stupid question. On these new fangled ones, where does the water get heated?

**Hides head in shame** Steve

[John]

In your boiler. If it is a combi you will have mains pressure hot and cold. If not then you may need to consider a pump.

[Roger Mills (aka Set Square)]

In other words, the shower has to be *supplied* with hot (and cold) water - it doesn't *produce* hot water from cold in the way that an electric shower does.

[Mike Halmarack]

Your boiler, solar heater, or in the case of an electric power shower the heating/pump unit. If you go to

put "uk.d-i-y" in the "Groups:" field and "shower" in the "Subject:" field (ignoring the quotes) And read the results, you'll learn a lot about the subject.

[EricP]

This still does not beat "Why loft vents...?".

:))

[mogga]

the easy link