Electric shower

drivel_head

Moved house in October into my first home with a lovely completely tiled bathroom and an electric shower (not sure how old). Last week the shower decided to stop working - it's not giving off any hot water.

A quick Google suggests to me that this might be something easily fixable with a spare part. But I've spoken to a local plumber today who says "nobody repairs electric showers these days".

Just wondering if anyone has experience of this & knows if it's true that people don't repair them? I'm just really keen to avoid having to try to find matching tiles/mismatched yet co-ordinated tiles/re-tile the whole thing around a new shower!

jayyar66

If you know the make and model of shower then it may be possible to locate the replacement part needed, try:

http://www.showerdoc.com/

Alternatively, if that isn't a viable option then Mira do a multi-fit replacement shower that is designed specifically to address issues usually encountered when replacing electric showers, that is, differing cable/pipe entry points

http://www.mirashowers.co.uk/onlinecatalog/detail.htm?productNumber=MIRA%20SPORT%20MTF%209.0KW

Ectophile

According the instructions that came with my shower, you're not supposed to tile around it. The correct way is to tile the wall, then fix the shower over the tiles.

If it's been done properly, the worst you should have is a couple of holes to fill with grout - but they should be hidden behind the new one.