new shower advice

treasure-hunt

wondering if you can help, at the moment i have a mira sport 9 kw but i have found that this is at least doubling my electricity bill so i need to find one that wont, we have a back boiler so will only need a electric shower, havent much to spend but needs to do the job, dont want to stand underneath a trickle!!
do you have any suggestions

Tallymanjohn

Apart from taking shorter showers there's not a lot you can do - if you have a lower powered shower then it just means that you do end up with less throughput of water to achieve the same temperature - ie a trickle. Electric showers are still the most economic because you're only heating the water as you use it.

Debt_Free_Chick

treasure-hunt wrote:

we have a back boiler so will only need a electric shower

Does the boiler provide your hot water? If so, you don't need an electric shower. An electric shower takes cold water and heats it - hence the cost.

If you already have a hot water supply, you want a shower that will mix the existing hot & cold water supply - no point in paying for the shower to heat water when you already have it!

My hot water is provided by the AGA. My existing shower runs off this - and I'm just installing a second shower in a new en-suite. Again, the new shower will run off the existing hot water, provided by the AGA.

I'm not great with the technicalities, so wait for others to chip in - but my guess is that your electricity bill is for heating the water in the shower :eek:

treasure-hunt

do you have any recommendations for which shower to get?