Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Property/DIY

Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.

Original poster

Electric showers

34 replies

househunt89 · 13/07/2022 09:13

Hi all

Looking to put an offer on a house this week.

The upstairs bathrooms have electric showers 😅

I know nothing about them! Is it very costly to remove them completely and replace with normal ones?

Tia

OP posts:
Original poster
househunt89 · 13/07/2022 17:59

Carrieonmywaywardsun · 13/07/2022 17:27

Do you live in England OP? Electric showers are pretty standard and new, I'd consider the other type as old fashioned now!

Yes I do 😅
I always thought thermostatic ones were more common to have

Anyway good news then. I'll keep the electric one 😂 maybe just replace it as it looks extremely old

OP posts:
AlannaOfTrebond · 13/07/2022 17:59

Really interesting that some people consider electric showers old fashioned and some consider them the more modern option.

I'm firmly in the old fashioned camp, I've never met an electric shower with enough pressure to wash my hair easily. I associate them with the generation who grew up with baths.

If I was buying a house with an electric shower replacing it would be high on my list of jobs.

Original poster
househunt89 · 13/07/2022 18:00

NotMeNoNo · 13/07/2022 17:37

We have an electric shower, it's OK for a shower but at 12kW it's really expensive to run. If you have someone teenager who likes a 30 minute shower that's £1.60 ish in today's money.
A good mixer shower from a pressurised hot water system (combi/solar/gas/heatpump) will knock spots off it though.

It's not a very easy swap as the electric shower only has a cold water input and a mixer shower needs two pipes running to it.

Hmm yes from my very poor google search my understanding is that you can take the electric one out and swap it but it's quite costly 🤪 so most likely we will keep the electric one 🙈

OP posts:
DisplayPurposesOnly · 13/07/2022 18:13

I always thought thermostatic ones were more common to have

My electric shower is also thermostatic...

Roselilly36 · 13/07/2022 18:24

Electric showers are expensive to run. Most people have shower that run off combi boiler these days, cheaper and efficient.

Original poster
househunt89 · 13/07/2022 18:36

DisplayPurposesOnly · 13/07/2022 18:13

I always thought thermostatic ones were more common to have

My electric shower is also thermostatic...

Shows how much I know about showers 😫 nothing

OP posts:
BertieBotts · 13/07/2022 18:39

I don't think they are either old fashioned or modern, but they are an extremely common option in the UK. We've only had hot water connected ones since we moved abroad. Every shower I've ever used in the UK has been electric.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 13/07/2022 18:49

Roselilly36 · 13/07/2022 18:24

Electric showers are expensive to run. Most people have shower that run off combi boiler these days, cheaper and efficient.

Do they?

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an electric shower.

Can't say ours is expensive to use and we have loads of long showers. We have an eco Mira, it's brilliant and powerful.

TimBoothseyes · 13/07/2022 19:13

I have an electric shower. It's fine, loads of pressure plus it's designed to stop after 7 minutes (you can turn it on again obviously if you feel the need), so is not expensive to run. Does the job it's supposed to so all good.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page