[ifconfig]

My plumber sent 2 of his lads over to fix a faulty safety valve in the cold water tank earlier today.
While I had both of them here I gave them a look at the one and only electric shower which we have installed in an annex room on the ground floor of the house.
They opened it up and found that 2 of the mains supply wires were fried and shorting.. *dangerous!!**
The model is a Mira play.
Obviously we won't be using this shower until it is fixed and replaced.

Approx 2 yrs ago we had a problem after an ESB outage (brownout) which caused a number of high load appliances to become unsafe.
For example, our geothermal heat pump soft start module was fried.
We installed a surge protector module in the fuseboard in the garage to protect that in future.
I suspect that the same incident may have caused the electric shower assembly to become unsafe.

OK. Main question is .. in ballpark terms how much would I expect to pay to get a Mira play shower replaced and fitted these days ?

Also.. I wonder if my hunch as to the root cause may be correct.
I shiver to think how unsafe that shower has been for such a long time.
We don't use it a lot but ...

-ifc

[JohnnieK]

It might be cheaper if you got the shower and got someone to change it. I dont get any love from any of my suppliers when it comes to electric showers. They give them to Joe public at the same price.

Regarding the electrical issue. I'm surprised the breaker did not trip when the spike came. I wonder if the cable is the correct size for the shower load? Should be 10sq cable.

[dossir]

I generally find b&q cheapest for electric showers be it mains or tank fed they always seem to have an offer On them iv bought a few them for jobs iv done only got a mira mains fed last week for €112 9.5kw while cheapest from suppliers was €190

[JohnnieK]

B&Q thats it. I was trying to think of a main stream DIY shop that had cheap showers but I just couldn't think of who it was.