Which electric shower do you recommend?

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Just about to have one fitted - all new cable etc. It has to be electric due to crappy hot water system here.

My neighbour has just bought a Mira Play and says its fine but there might be something better in that price range....Aiming to spend no more than £150.

I'd also be happy to hear about the ones to avoid.

Get the highest wattage you can (you need extra wiring for this).
Have a look here, you can check out the reviews
www.plumbworld.co.uk/coloured-3306-0000

Our local showroom recommneded Aqualisa, Mira and Triton, not much between them they said. We bought a pricey Mira Azora which looks great but isnt very powerful (not that I have another electric shower to compare it to).

www.plumbworld.co.uk/mira-vie-electric-shower-3308-18181

This gets good reviews too and is that wattage is the most powerful you can get I think.

Thanks Pannacotta. I have been looking at various reviews; it's a bit of a conflicting minefield it seems!

I might avoid the Mira Azora thanks

Aquilisa is a good-quality brand, though I have only used their mixer types. Triton is a bit budget. All electric showers are far weedier (especially in winter) than you can get from a combi boiler, and far far far weedier than you can get from a HW cylinder with a pump. £150 is not much to pay.

If you are having a new cable run, ask the electrician to run 10mm cable. 6mm is not big enough. It must not be surrounded in insulation, for example if it passes through a loft.

Electrical work in bathrooms, and/or running a new circuit, and/or fitting a new consumer unit, must be done by an electrician who is a member of a self-certification scheme (unless you pay the Council Building Control fee for testing, inspection and certification, which will cost more).

Do you have a hot-water cylinder, heated by a gas boiler, with a tank in the roof?

(sorry, I meant £150 is not much to pay if you're including a new electrical circuit")

PigletJohn the £150 budget was just for the shower unit although, I will pay a bit more if needs be.

The plumbing and electrics will cost me £350 and that includes 10mm cable.

I'm really just looking for some recommendations/reviews from people who either use electric showers or perhaps fit them.

And I am worried about the power an electric shower but I don't have a combi neither do I have a roof tank - just a tank in the airing cupboard which is OK and does the job but doesn't provide much hot water pressure.

....meant to say, the hot water here is heated by a gas boiler.

OK. If you have a Fortic or similar, where there is a small cold-water tank of top of the HW cylinder, then a shower pump is probably not a goer, because they deliver such a lot of hot water that the little tank might run dry.

I agree about getting a 45Amp shower if you can (10.8kW nominal) as that will be as much power as you can get, and electric showers are fundamentally not very powerful. The amount of power from any 10.8kW shower will be the same, so a different brand will not perform differently, but reliability and service life will be better with better quality.

Not Mira.

In two separate properties we've had Mira showers suddenly break and water pour out of them (when they get to about 10 years old, the wear and tear inside means a little plastic part goes with spectacular results). Loads of other people on the same estate (all the showers put in about the same time) have had similar issues.

Thank you PigletJohn - you seem to understand my plight!

I am resigned to spending more money for better quality.

Thanks too RubberDuck you are definitely making me think twice about a Mira of any sort

Aquilisa are a good brand, they're on that Plumbworld website and they have one reduced (maybe it is last years model?)

Aquilisa service parts are usually easy to get, the mixers in particular I know for many years, as they last a long time.