Electric showers

Hools

Hi just wondering should I stick to a Mira elite or triton t90?. What's a Mira escape like does anyone know. Tks

Sleeper12

Hools wrote:

Hi just wondering should I stick to a Mira elite or triton t90?. What's a Mira escape like does anyone know. Tks

The Mira Escape is a mains fed shower. You need a gravity fed shower. The elite is the only gravity fed electric shower that mira do.

Working on close to 1000 showers per year I have found Mira need to be repaired roughly 20% more often than triton.

Mira use a very cheap plastic in their showers. It becomes brittle & goes yellow after a few years.

Triton give a full 2 years parts and labour warranty on all their showers.
Mira only give a 12 month warranty with a lot of their showers.

In short triton outshine mira on electric & power showers.

Mira do a great dial on the wall & that's about it.

Hools

Sleeper12 wrote: »

The Mira Escape is a mains fed shower. You need a gravity fed shower. The elite is the only gravity fed electric shower that mira do.

Working on close to 1000 showers per year I have found Mira need to be repaired roughly 20% more often than triton.

Mira use a very cheap plastic in their showers. It becomes brittle & goes yellow after a few years.

Triton give a full 2 years parts and labour warranty on all their showers.
Mira only give a 12 month warranty with a lot of their showers.

In short triton outshine mira on electric & power showers.

Mira do a great dial on the wall & that's about it.

What's the difference between a mains fed and gravity shower. Y wudnt mains fed work? Sorry I've no clue. Thanks for your reply very helpful

Sleeper12

Hools wrote:

What's the difference between a mains fed and gravity shower. Y wudnt mains fed work? Sorry I've no clue. Thanks for your reply very helpful

If you're old shower is a mira elite then it is a gravity fed shower. The water is taken from the storage tank in the attic. A gravity fed (tank fed) shower has a pump. The benefit of this is you have constant pressure.

Mains fed showers are taken from the rising mains water coming into the house. This type of shower doesn't have a pump. Because of this the pressure fluctuates. Mains fed showers are not suitable for most of Ireland as the pressure is so bad. In Dublin some homes with mains fed showers can only shower at certain times of the day. Off peek when demand in the estate is low.

Dardania

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Mains fed showers are not suitable for most of Ireland as the pressure is so bad. In Dublin some homes with mains fed showers can only shower at certain times of the day. Off peek when demand in the estate is low.

I know what that's like...

The Reader

Hi Guys.

I have a Mira Elite shower in my bathroom which as pointed out the plastic has turned yellow and the heat dial is fluctuating. At this stage i figure it needs replacing. Has been in operation for a number of years . Got an offer recently of a T80Z triton shower at reasonable money, should I go ahead and replace the Mira before it lets me down. Appreciate views. Thanks

Sleeper12

The Reader wrote:

I have a Mira Elite shower in my bathroom which as pointed out the plastic has turned yellow and the heat dial is fluctuating. At this stage i figure it needs replacing. Has been in operation for a number of years . Got an offer recently of a T80Z triton shower at reasonable money, should I go ahead and replace the Mira before it lets me down. Appreciate views. Thanks

Mira elite is tank fed and triton t80z is mains fed. You should be looking at the mira elite qt or better still triton t90sr. Both tank fed

The Reader

Hi

My deepest appreciation for your views. Will source out the models mentioned and progress from there. Many thanks

Tomjim

I need to replace a mira shower, do I have to replace a mira shower with a mira or could I put in a triton

Sleeper12

Tomjim wrote:

I need to replace a mira shower, do I have to replace a mira shower with a mira or could I put in a triton

95 percent of the time we can replace Mira showers with Triton showers. The 5 percent that we can't is down to the fact that some bad tilers don't fully tile behind showers.