Remote control shower mixer - anyone using one?

I don't have a combi - have Mains pressure DHW and a tank - but all my mixers are mechanical.

There is no reason not to use one with a combi. They work across a wide range of pressures.

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Yes you can, but standing under the shower head adjusting valves with the shower alternating between hot and cold was not on.

We have a 1600mm long walk in shower so I can step in out of the shower spray press the tit and within seconds I have the perfect flow and temperature. What’s not to like?

Richard

I have a shower with two knobs. The temperature one has not moved in about a year. I just turn it on and let the wax capsule thermostat sort out everything else.

I get exactly the same result from turning a single tap on.

Doesn't that rather waste the water economy advantages of a shower?

Why would it alternate, surely that's the thermostatic mixer's job? It has a scale from 'cold' to 'hot' (or on fancier ones numbered 20 to 40+C). You set it to the desired temperature and that's what temperature you get.

I have a shower with one knob which is both flow and temperature. I turn it to the usual setting (11 o'clock roughly) and it's at the right temperature by the time I've taken one more step under the shower. It helps that the hot water cylinder is the other side of the wall, so less than 1m pipe run.

More to the point, when suddenly the washing machine decides to fill and the pressure drops, there's a big drop in flow but no change whatever in temperature. The thermostatic valve handles it.

Theo

Yep, When I first fitted thermostatic shower it needed a new "module" within the year, I half expected it would keep needing them that often, but it hasn't needed one since for 25 years. I suspect I hadn't flushed out the pipework properly the first time.

My hot water tank is quite a way from anywhere up in the roof.

We have one in our en-suite and another in the main bathroom.

The ‘gubbins’ for the en-suite is in the loft and a wire, from memory not unlike a network cable, runs maybe 10 ft to it from the controller in the shower. There was an option for a second, Bluetooth, controller but we didn’t see the need.

In the main bathroom, the gubbins are under the bath, the shower cubicle being separate. The cable must be 15 to 20 ft long.

There is a delay when you turn the shower on, the light flashes until it is ready, but that isn’t a signal delay issue. It is water temperature related

- waiting for cold water in the pipes to flush out. It detects when the temperature is right for you to step in.

Ours are Aqualisa pumped showers.

We had the option of adding a Bluetooth controller to our Aqualisas. It seemed pointless. We could also have had the faux ‘mixer’ ( which is in the cubicle but is just a controller - a knob with a couple of buttons to select which head, rain or spray) either by the cubicle entry or in the normal place. Being wired, it doesn’t need to be near the pipes.

We’ve had them about 7 years and love them.

Previously, we’ve had electric showers, gravity showers, …. but these pumped electronic controlled beasts which mix your hot and cold water are the business.