Electric shower in Netherlands

Check that their electricity supply is man enough for it. 100A single phase is common in the UK, making electric showers feasible. I know some countries routinely supply 40A or even 25A, making a shower impossible.

An alternative is to install a storage based heating system (it may have one already) and use that, connected to an immersion heater. If gravity based, it'll need a pump, but a mains pressure system can run a shower directly.

Christian.

Yes, the power supply is lower rated and certainly the >10KW showers are out. However, the house will only be used in summer when in principle you don't need to heat the water up as far, so I was thinking one of the "tropical" showers that are made at lower power would be adequate. Certainly it will run on the current available, but there's this problem that they think it isn't allowed.

The immersion heater is the fallback, but "realtime" heating would be more useful. Not least because it can't be accidentally left switched on when the place isn't occupied.

Which could be overcome by using a non-latching switch and a one shot timer...

Lee

"Craig Graham" wrote | The immersion heater is the fallback, but "realtime" heating would | be more useful. Not least because it can't be accidentally left | switched on when the place isn't occupied.

Use a timer relay set to about an hour or so and push a button an hour before you want hot water (many commercial immersion heater controllers will provide this 'boost' function), or if your hot water needs are less predictable, something like a 12 hour timer that you reset every morning (and perhaps evening) will give you almost continuous tank heating for that duration but won't keep running for weeks and weeks.

Owain

Certainly there's ways to stop it being left on, but it would still be nicer to heat what you need, as you need it. Economy goes out the window when you use electricity in the first place, may as well have the convenience.

Looking for "Loodgieter" which should mean plumber, and the word "Douche" which I think means shower, I don't see many instant shower units on any of the website that the searches bring up. So maybe your Mum and Dad are correct in saying they're not permitted.