Most Powerful and Best Triton Shower on the Market?

tomkq

Hi

I am looking into buying an electric shower for my new build home. I like the chrome models as I think they look really good. I have seen 10.5 kW showers available in the UK but not in Ireland. I found this 10.5 kW shower on Amazon, its called a Triton Kito for £112 ponuds sterling. My Plumber told me that you would have to go to the north or the UK to buy anything more powerful than a 9 kW. I rang the local hardware where I buy most things and get good value and asked for the most powerful Triton shower available. They rang me back telling me the Triton T90 z is the most powerful shower at 9 kW and the chrome version would cost over 500 euro!!!!!!! Crazy money!!!!!
The Triton Kito on Amazon looks a great shower with good reviews, does anyone have a view on this???

Thanks!

Dtp1979

tomkq wrote: »

Hi

I am looking into buying an electric shower for my new build home. I like the chrome models as I think they look really good. I have seen 10.5 kW showers available in the UK but not in Ireland. I found this 10.5 kW shower on Amazon, its called a Triton Kito for £112 ponuds sterling. My Plumber told me that you would have to go to the north or the UK to buy anything more powerful than a 9 kW. I rang the local hardware where I buy most things and get good value and asked for the most powerful Triton shower available. They rang me back telling me the Triton T90 z is the most powerful shower at 9 kW and the chrome version would cost over 500 euro!!!!!!! Crazy money!!!!!
The Triton Kito on Amazon looks a great shower with good reviews, does anyone have a view on this???

Thanks!

The triton kito is a mains fed shower. You need at least 1 bar pressure with decent flow rate.

corkgsxr

Are Mira sports not 10.8

tomkq

Dtp1979 wrote: »

The triton kito is a mains fed shower. You need at least 1 bar pressure with decent flow rate.

Yes, it's a new build and I have 2 bar pressure across the house, so pressure shouldn't be an issue with this shower. Cold, mains fed is what will be in the bathroom and that's what that shower requires. I also saw a Creda 10.5kW mains fed shower on Amazon.co.uk for 160 odd sterling which seems great value too. Why would a hardware here require as much as 500 euro for a T90? Somebody must be making alot somewhere.

tomkq

corkgsxr wrote: »

Are Mira sports not 10.8

Mira do appear to be 10.8 but after looking at numerous reviews of the Mira online they don't appear as well reviewed plus we had bad experiences with Mira before.

Sleeper12

a few points before you buy.
some showers are rated for the UK so a 9.8 kw 240 volt shower is actually a 9kw 230 volt shower in IRELAND.
creda are a bad make.
triton are the best as far as electric showers go.
Mira are second best. The main problems with Mira are the plastic casings are cheap. they are brittle to start with but get worse with age. The white castings turn yellow very quickly. spare parts for Mira cost double the price of triton.
and Labour warranty
something to remember, triton give a full 2years parts and Labour warranty. if you buy a shower in the U.K. you only get a one year warranty

tomkq

Thanks. I was not aware of the power rating differences between the UK and Ireland.

cfeeneyinterior

tomkq wrote: »

Hi

I am looking into buying an electric shower for my new build home. I like the chrome models as I think they look really good. I have seen 10.5 kW showers available in the UK but not in Ireland. I found this 10.5 kW shower on Amazon, its called a Triton Kito for £112 ponuds sterling. My Plumber told me that you would have to go to the north or the UK to buy anything more powerful than a 9 kW. I rang the local hardware where I buy most things and get good value and asked for the most powerful Triton shower available. They rang me back telling me the Triton T90 z is the most powerful shower at 9 kW and the chrome version would cost over 500 euro!!!!!!! Crazy money!!!!!
The Triton Kito on Amazon looks a great shower with good reviews, does anyone have a view on this???

Thanks!

We had the 90z and were doing up the bathroom a few months back and bougth the chrome kito off amazon. At the time I totally forgot about mains feed and the fact mine was tank fed. Plumber sorted it though. Took a feed off the maind pipe going to attic and patched it into the pipe going to bathroom and closed the pipe off from tank.... If that makes sense. Not by the book but pressure is good here so was diable. The chrome is great and the vito is whisper quiet. Huge range of mains fed available. The t90 was like a tractor in comparison.
Delighted I bought the wrong shower now.

sky6

You will need at least 10 sq dedicated supply cable to feed a 10.5 kw Shower.

tomkq

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

We had the 90z and were doing up the bathroom a few months back and bougth the chrome kito off amazon. At the time I totally forgot about mains feed and the fact mine was tank fed. Plumber sorted it though. Took a feed off the maind pipe going to attic and patched it into the pipe going to bathroom and closed the pipe off from tank.... If that makes sense. Not by the book but pressure is good here so was diable. The chrome is great and the vito is whisper quiet. Huge range of mains fed available. The t90 was like a tractor in comparison.
Delighted I bought the wrong shower now.

Thanks, it's good to get some input from someone who got one. Is there any noticeable increase in water pressure/power coming from the shower do you think? I haven't bought yet but could do with buying something fairly soon as the build is moving on.

Sleeper12

you should get a plumber to test water pressure with a pressure gauge. most of Dublin and large parts of the country aren't suitable for mains fed showers. There are lots of homes that can't run a mains Fed shower at certain times of the day or run it at the same time as washing machine Tec.

tomkq

Sleeper12 wrote: »

you should get a plumber to test water pressure with a pressure gauge. most of Dublin and large parts of the country aren't suitable for mains fed showers. There are lots of homes that can't run a mains Fed shower at certain times of the day or run it at the same time as washing machine Tec.

I talked about this earlier in the thread. It's a new build and I have 2 bar pressure so no problem there anyway. Thanks though.