Please recommend a good basic electric shower,that won't cost too much to fit.

[MagnoliaBlossom]

Anyone know cost of fitting an electric shower over a bath?
Should we let the plumber choose it, cos he's the one to fit it,or source one ourselves cheaply? (ebay!)
I just want a simple, good quality one, don't need luxury.
What brands do you recommend?
Also, the bathroom has a wall fitted electric heater, if we removed that, would that be an adequate power supply for the shower?
Lots of questions, sorry!

Try your local electrical wholesaler they often have deals on, Redring are cheap and not bad quality
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You will also need a isolator switch fitted outside of the bathroom

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Heres the cable

I doubt very much that the heater supply will be the correct size and will not have the correct breaker fitted, depending on the heater the shower will use 3 times the electricity so you will need a bigger supply cable, unless you know exactly what you are doing seek professional advice, if you are skint get an electrician to supply the cable you fit the cable to his recommended route and let him connect it all up, they are time consuming to route under floors etc but need top be done to the 17th edition regs as the last thing you want is an unsafe shower

The heater outlet will definitely not be adequate.

An electric shower takes (about) 11kW which is more than three times what a wall outlet can supply. You will need a new electrrical circuit run, all the way to the consumer unit (fuseboard) and it will need to be done in large electrical cable, probably 10mm, might be more depending on length and routes, and protected with an RCD as well as a new MCB. The earthing arrangements will need to be checked and tested, and possibly upgraded. This is Notifiable work under Building Regulations in England and Wales, and needs to be done by a qualified electrician who is a member of a Competent Person scheme and will issue the certificate. If you prefer, at greater cost, you can have the work done by someone else, and pay for inspection and certification separately, but you have to arrange this before starting work, not afterwards, and get BR approval (not just an electrician).

I presume you already heat your hot water using a gas boiler, is the electric shower for use when the boiler breaks down, or for some other reason? Have you had an electric shower before, and do you realise that they give a pathetic, weedy flow of hot water, especially in winter?

PigletJohn is right, my electric shower is rubbish, it's like standing under a kids watering can. I'm considering ripping it out and not bothering with a shower at all and just having he bath tub!

Oh,dear, I thought modern showers were pretty good?
Thanks for replies.
Need to think now, I didn't realise it was such a big job.
P.John, we live in an old cottage, no central heating, so no boiler.
We have a downstairs bathroom, and very good mains water pressure, so I thought it would work quite well.Didn't realise the electrics was so major,so thanks for your info.

if you have no boiler, I presume you have electric heating, perhaps with an economy-7 or similar tariff.

You might be able to get a good shower with a different type of cylinder, if so.

We have an electric shower and it is great - very powerful! It's a mira. I'd highly recommend it.

Well I 'm certainly glad to hear you're happy with it, but I am rather surprised.

Just to check, you are in the UK, and you do mean an electric shower that takes incoming cold water from the main, instantly heats it and squirts it out? The water is not heated by a gas boiler or in a cylinder?

these are typically about 10kW power (compared to a modern gas combi which is typically about 35k so can deliver over three times as much hot water per minute)

Do you know how many litres per minute of hot water it delivers?

We've just literally this minute fitted a shower over the bath in my daughters bathroom.

Our plumber recommended a Mira Sport Airboost and it is good! Nowhere near as good as our power shower but its great for my DD as she grows up.

We paid £220 +vat (trade price) for the shower, £210 for the sparkie to run the cables from the bathroom (upstairs) to the fuse box (downstairs) and £100 for the plumber to fit the shower.

We tiled ourselves, and didn't fit a screen - we used a pole and curtain instead. Thats cost about £100 in total and lots of fine pieces to fuel my DH as he cursed under his breath about how much he hates tiling......

another fan here of mira sport shower, it is excellent in our upstairs bathroom,absolutely no problem at all with the flow or temperature