Electric shower - pull cord or wall switch?

[PandoraRocks]

I will be having an over bath shower installed in about 6 months.
The electrician is doing some work as part of a house renovation so I'm putting in extra sockets, wiring etc.

My current old electric shower has a pull cord switch and I honestly thought these things were obsolete. The sparky is fitting the wiring for this but I understand you can also have the switch outside the bathroom on the wall? I think pull switches are naff and ugly.

What do you have for your electric shower?

I have an ugly pull switch i hate and will be changing to an external one when i renovate my bathroom

Switch on the wall outside the door ( pull cords are naff 😛). The switch for the light and extractor are outside the door too.

Switch quite high up on the wall outside shower.

Well I've found out that my bathroom wall isn't thick enough for the switch to be fitted inside so I have to have a pull cord🤔

jeez. Pull cords are to stop you touching a switch with wet hands. Electricity, you know....

Pull cord. 100%. I never understand why people prefer to have switches outside their bathroom. Extractor fans are another one.

They don't have to be ugly - you can get nice looking cord in colours other than white, and any number of beautiful handles.

Mine is a pull switch in the tank cupboard outside the bathroom fitted 4 years ago when we had an electric shower installed. I never turn off the shower via the isolation switch. I thought that it was only required for maintenance to be able to isolate the supply, otherwise my electrician would have made me have it in the bathroom. My extractor is connected to the light, so when you pull the light switch the extractor comes on.

I also don't turn off my oven switch either. Surely this is the same, no?

ours was underneath the electric cupboard fairly high up on the wall...the temptation for the children to give it a yank when someone was in there was often too much

when we had to replace the shower we upgraded the power, got a higher rated pull switch and put the damned thing inside the cupboard....out of sight, out of mind, no more cold showers for anyone!

I had a pull cord for my bathroom and I hated that let alone one for the shower !

Ours is a pull cord, I have never really thought anything about it to be honest, certainly not enough to go to the bother of changing it

Ours has a pull cord so you can turn it off with wet hands. Never really considered it to be an issue and it’s a fairly new house. There’s lots I hate about our en-suite but the pull cord is not on the list.

Why would you have a switch high up on the wall? Why not at normal height? The extractor switch here is above the bathroom door and at 5’5” I have to stretch on tip toes and dc who are older enough to shower stand no chance of switching it.

You can have wall switches installed within bathrooms for lights/showers etc - they don't have to be outside of the room or on a pull cord - this is a common misconception. They just have to be within certain zones within the room.
I have regular light switches in my bathroom/ensuite.