Should I buy the digital shower?

cyclonebri1

keystone wrote: »

Neither do I see the real need for all this electronic monkey motion you get in a motor car these days. The point is?

No, but on the other hand you get economy, you get toys you can't get by mechanical means and you get ease of manufacture, with a shower you still get just hot water, that's the point

Cheap Chinese made tat will forever be cheap Chinese mad tat. Don't forget what CE these days usually means. I don't understand the "moneysaving" logic of spending x pounds every two or three years when spending y (where y might = 3x) pounds in the first place on a product that will last for 10 years is actually cheaper in the long run.. Then you've got to add in the cost of a new install every so often let alone the cost of recycling and disposal and the effect that has on your taxes and I can't see how that adds up to money saving at all.

Well if we can say all digital electronic showers aren't Chinese then we are in agreement, I doubt that is the case.
But I also happen to feel that some of the incoming Chinese stuff is pretty good quality, some I said.

Quite. I have a Triton shower in my bathroom. Its lasted 12 years so far. No sign of it needing a new cartridge. It wasn't cheap then but on the other hand I wouldn't replace it with a Triton now. The only thing thats going to make me replace it is that its time for a bathroom revamp anyway.

It is probably 10 years since I fitted a Triton, it lasted less than the 3 years of the waranty, so I guess some you win, some you lose, my own Wickes own label trad thermo valve, made by Caradon, lasted 14 years, the thermostat capsule went and was still available but equal to the cost of replacement so.....
Cheers

Apologies for breaking up your post, never get multi quote things right.

Beenie

keystone wrote: »

That seems a very blinkered attitude. A great deal of stuff in your house these days is microprocessor controlled.

Cheers

but the microprocessors aren't in the freezing loft space though!

Just google 'digital shower problems' or similar and you'll see what I mean.

keystone

If its installed properly there is no reason that it should freeze and its most likely a thermistor that gets affected by cold rather than a microprocessor.

Cheers