Discuss Electric shower advice please..... in the UK Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net
I’m just after getting mine fitted today, which I purchased several months ago. I’ve used it once and it’s the same as you described. The hot water is only warm and not too powerful (not even on the hand held part) yet, when the cold is on, it’s very powerful. (Both parts) When I put the eco button it, it is better but it drops temperature and is fairly cold. It must just be the way they are?? For the price of them, you’d expect to get hot water and definitely more power!?Fitted 9.5 kw aquas aquamax shower today (customer supplied) and new full rcbo consumer unit, all good except the shower is absolute s£&t! Even on the highest setting the water is only moderately hot, water pressure seems fine and no different to any other showers I’ve fitted, one thing I did notice was when I clamped the meter tails with the shower running on full heat it only ever pulls approximately 15amps,new 10mm cable run in void under the floor for approx 18mtrs to a chase in the wall upto isolation switch with pvc wall panels over that,plenty of free air around the cable,admittedly I’ve never had to clamp a shower before but does that seems low for a 9.5kw shower?
Thanks as always
The eco button Micro switch is not making contact mate, the company that makes and supplies these to Victorian plumbing will tell you to put a washer between the shower unit and the wall behind, basically an admission of design fault....if contact VP and tell them you want ya money backI’m just after getting mine fitted today, which I purchased several months ago. I’ve used it once and it’s the same as you described. The hot water is only warm and not too powerful (not even on the hand held part) yet, when the cold is on, it’s very powerful. (Both parts) When I put the eco button it, it is better but it drops temperature and is fairly cold. It must just be the way they are?? For the price of them, you’d expect to get hot water and definitely more power!?
Hi mate. I read the eco button is meant to be more for the “summer months” which will reduce the kw down to 5 kw. When I pushed it in, it made my shower more powerful, from which it was set at the warmest point. As I said, the cold shower is really powerful but when I put it to hot, it loses a lot of power and isn’t “hot” and just warm.The eco button Micro switch is not making contact mate, the company that makes and supplies these to Victorian plumbing will tell you to put a washer between the shower unit and the wall behind, basically an admission of design fault....if contact VP and tell them you want ya money back
The water will be more powerful in eco mode as the shower doesn’t have to heat the water so much...the force of water is nothing to do with the shower that’s dependent on your water pressure from the mains,Hi mate. I read the eco button is meant to be more for the “summer months” which will reduce the kw down to 5 kw. When I pushed it in, it made my shower more powerful, from which it was set at the warmest point. As I said, the cold shower is really powerful but when I put it to hot, it loses a lot of power and isn’t “hot” and just warm.
Ok got you. Should the shower not be hotter than what it is, when it’s just on normal mode? It’s warm but not hot like you’d expect!The water will be more powerful in eco mode as the shower doesn’t have to heat the water so much...the force of water is nothing to do with the shower that’s dependent on your water pressure from the mains,
cheers! I don’t think I’ll need to use the eco button anytime as the normal (turned fully to hot) setting is like warm anyway. I’d definitely expect “hot” water from it?One element in the shower always has a higher resistance than the other one 20amp the other 15amp (bigclivedotcom did a shower teardown) - soz i should have read that it was sorted above lol
I would go with Creda showers all the time had mine for 7 years and not a problem and i have a 30 min shower every day which really should burn the shower out within a few years - Mira are pony and trap too many problems with em!
The eco mode microswitch just switches off the main element which is usually 20amp @Kiefer!
Trouble with this particular retailer is they genuinely don’t care.....they play games and outright lie and give customers and tradesman the run around in a deliberate attempt to avoid any issues, it took them nearly 4 months and countless phone calls and emails to pay me an agreed fee to repair THEY faulty equipment!...avoid them like the plague!Clearly a known problem to manufacturers and retailer. Therefore a defective product. Product supplied by retailer. Contract with retailer. Retailer has to sort it out. Up to retailer if they want to claim against manufacturer. Its all basic consumer law that retailers sadly ever know about nor understand!
I personally didn’t but I had a fully qualified plumber fit it, as well as the whole bathroom suite. He had the book with him so I’m sure he did. Would it have worked if he hadn’t?Humour me here @Kiefer, you have removed the plastic “U” piece haven’t you?
It would work but you’d get very little hot water....plumber....hmmmmmmmmI personally didn’t but I had a fully qualified plumber fit it, as well as the whole bathroom suite. He had the book with him so I’m sure he did. Would it have worked if he hadn’t?
Do you have a picture of what it looks like or where it was/is located? I could check with him to see if he had. Would that explain the water not being overly “hot” and the pressure of the water when it’s on “hot?” As I said, it’s very powerful on cold.It would work but you’d get very little hot water....plumber....hmmmmmmmm
Certainly a possibility, I’ve been called out to new installations by a plumber who hadn’t removed it....google the shower installation instructions and it’ll be in there, you can’t miss it you just pull it out with ya fingers....,after safe isolation of the circuit and removal of the front cover, if you’re not confident get a spark mate.....please let us know the outcome.....dumb plumbers are popular on hereDo you have a picture of what it looks like or where it was/is located? I could check with him to see if he had. Would that explain the water not being overly “hot” and the pressure of the water when it’s on “hot?” As I said, it’s very powerful on cold.
Thanks mate, I’ll give a spark that I know a call, to come and check it out! The spark had it wired just for the plumber to come and “put it on!” The box in which the shower arrived in is here which he left bits and pieces in, but I don’t see anything in it that fits the description!Certainly a possibility, I’ve been called out to new installations by a plumber who hadn’t removed it....google the shower installation instructions and it’ll be in there, you can’t miss it you just pull it out with ya fingers....,after safe isolation of the circuit and removal of the front cover, if you’re not confident get a spark mate.....please let us know the outcome.....dumb plumbers are popular on here
I'll have you know , I activated my low power the other day .. (But probably only for 1 month !)Eco or cool setting all showers have it but users in the UK never use it lol
I'll have you know , I activated my low power the other day .. (But probably only for 1 month !)
Winter will be here soon ! ..Mr Frugal.. Save water.
I'll have you know , I activated my low power the other day .. (But probably only for 1 month !)
Winter will be here soon ! ..Mr Frugal.. Save water.
My internet speed and water pressure have been a bag of .... for the 20 odd years I've lived in my current home..
Ironically the guys putting in the duct for fiber cut through the water main.
Once water was restored the pressure was so high it blew my hose pipe fittings apart!!
be careful what you wish for
Do you reckon this varies with property House/Land size ,or just a flat rate ...oddly, the waste water charge is higher, at £344.76.
Haha Gary...I'm a posh pirate! LOL! NOT! I simply cannot understand why my Council Tax band is so high. I recently downsized to a flat from a much larger house, yet my band only dropped from a G to an F, so i pay only marginally less per month for a property with less than half the floor area. As for actual water consumption, the system is gravity-fed, pressure is poor, so I have had to fit a pump to my shower. The hot water is from a cylinder with immersion heater. My last house had a combi boiler and the shower was also a pumped Aqualisa thingy, so I have gone from unlimited hot water to severely limited hot water, thus I am using much less water than before as i also don't have a garden to water, nor do i wash my car any more, I take it to the car-wash. I reckon I use less than half the water I did before, yet I am paying almost as much. The water charge doesn't really take account of the number of people living in a house, which would suggest that water metering would be a fairer way of charging.
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