Fitting an electric shower.

cleggie

Hi.

I am clueless when it comes to DIY and anything like that.
I want to have an electric shower fitted but dont know if i need to contact an electrician or plumber?
Also, who would i get in to do some tiling in the bathroom for me?

ormus

plumbing in a shower is easy enough, a handyman can do it cheaply.
for the electrics you need a sparky.


for the tiling you need a tiler or the handyman again.

cleggie

thanks Ormus. So i would need a sparky, plumber and handyman!? Oh hec!

zagfles

You might find a sparky who'll do the lot - we had a new kitchen fitted a few years ago and the fitter was a trained electrician (he had to be to do the electrics). In the price negotiations with the salesman I got them to throw in fitting a shower so he did that too, all the plumbing and electrics.

Don't think the salesman realised how much work was involved in fitting the shower!

mavisangelica

Our electric shower broke and we replaced it with a more powerful model and we had to have the cable that goes back to the circuit board renewed to a higher rating. The electrician had to drill a couple of holes in ceilings to find/get the cable back to the board. So there will be disruption around the house also. (This was in a house built in 1994).

googler

As prev said, much of the cost will depend on how far your bathroom is from your consumer unit, as you need a separate circuit breaker or fuse for the shower, high-current cabling running from there to a switch for the shower (either wall-mounted outside the bathroom, or pull-cord inside), wiring from the switch to the back of the shower.

You also need a mains-pressure cold water feed for an electric shower. You need to look at what water supply is currently connected to your bathroom - if it's all tank-fed, you'll need the plumber to run a mains cold feed from the nearest or most convenient access point to the back of the shower.