Electric showers are they better than they used to be?

[MillyMollyMardy]

Any-one prepared to say they like theirs? We are planning to replace a bathroom which currently has a bath only. The flat has no gas supply, no boiler just an immersion tank. So we are looking at an unvented tank (very pricey) or an electric shower. My experience of these is spending hours washing shampoo out. Your experiences please.

[CMOTdibbler]

We redid our bathrooms, and were weighing up a pumped electric shower vs fitting an unvented tank. We went with the unvented tank, and it is totally brilliant. Fills the bath sooo fast, and the shower pressure is amazing. And no noise from a shower pump, which is important as we both often have to leave v early in the morning and don't want to wake the other or DS up.

We shopped around plumbers, and found very varying prices - ended up just over 1k for everything. Putting in a new wiring circuit for an electric shower would have cost loads, due to where the fuse board and bathroom were too

[grin]

Got a new one couple of months ago. It is much better than our (very) old one and washes the shampoo out of my big old hair pretty efficiently! Got quite a good one as we had a voucher for £50 off, think it may be something to pay a little more for if you're able to.

Hope that's useful

[grin]

Never heard of an unvented tank CMOT, useful bit of knowledge to stash away for future, thank you!

[MillyMollyMardy]

CMOT that's about what we think it will cost for the tank. I don't think we can have a pumped electric shower as the cold feed is mains. Is yours pumped Grin?

[DancingHippoOnAcid]

You should be able to have a pumped shower with mains feed cold. We have and it is GREAT.

[MillyMollyMardy]

Do you have a cold tank DancingHippo? We don't and all the plumbers I have spoken to say illegal to pump mains directly.

[DancingHippoOnAcid]

Sorry, got confused. Just spoke to DH. We used to have direct mains feed but this was not very effective due to low water pressure locally so we moved back to cold water tank.It was after that we got the shower pump.

So it is quite possible that your plumbers are right, Milly. But mains feed cold water should give you good pressure so you get a powerful shower without needing any kind of pump. If you do not get good pressure mains feed is not appropriate.

Unfortunately, I have never come across an electric shower that has any power. I think there really isn't going to be a cheap solution to get a powerful shower.

[grin]

Nope ours is not that fancy! Certainly it is nowhere near as powerful as my parents' proper job power shower but it does the job. I find that if I twist the shower head to the setting where it all comes out of the central section it is more powerful too.

Ultimately an electric shower I don't ever think will be as powerful as a power/pumped one but if that's all you can have (like us) then you have to go wiht it!