best electric showers ?

[Steve ski]

Morning everyone, My customer requires a new electric shower for a holiday cottage. He wants one which will provide a good flow at high temperature settings and hopefully good longevity, Whats your favourites and why ? thanks in advance.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Hi Steve

The flow rate/temperature of a shower is determined entirely by the physics - all 9kw showers will, by definition, deliver the same balance. So to get higher performance, you have to up the kilowatt rating, which leads to potential upgrades to the electrical installation, particularly to the cable.

Its not clear from your post whether the whole installation is new (in which case using the correct cable should be relatively easy) or just a new shower to replace an existing one. If its the latter, then you need to check the cable size already installed - that will be your limiting factor.

As for longevity, there are two factors - make, and nature of water supply. A Mira Sport is not the cheapest, but should give long service, but if you are in a very hard water area, then any electric shower is likely to have a limited lifespan unless you take steps to treat the water supply.

 

[drip-dry]

As it is a holiday let,the guests will want a decent shower,so i would just fit a triton 8.5 kw shower,with a £100 ish budget for unit and forget the longevity bit,as it is not going to happen,it is going to be used and abused.....budget in to replace every few years....and make sure the cleaners have shower head cleaning on their list
it is not just the internal wear,it is shower hose damage,control knobs breaking and disappearing ect