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Electric Shower Help

  • 03-01-2017 8:27pm
    #1
    sozbox
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    My electric shower doesn't heat the water anymore, it turns on fine, pressure is good but I only get cold water.

    I took off the cover earlier and can see some dark burn like marks, any one know if I need to replace it?

    Pics attached, thanks!


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    That's not an electric shower. It's a Mira vigour power shower. The black is normal. It's carbon. A power shower doesn't heat up the water. You need to heat up the water first by turning on the immersion or gas.

    Edit just looking at the date on the motor. 2006 this might be called a Mira essentials. It's still a power shower though


  • #3
    sozbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭sozbox


    oh wow, really? There's a switch on the wall outside the bathroom that activates it, is that normal?


  • #4
    Sleeper12
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    sozbox wrote:
    oh wow, really? There's a switch on the wall outside the bathroom that activates it, is that normal?


    Yes


  • #5
    sozbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭sozbox


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Yes

    Well I feel like an idiot :D Thanks, saved me some hassle there, moved into this place last week and I've never seen a power shower before.


  • #6
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    sozbox wrote:
    Well I feel like an idiot Thanks, saved me some hassle there, moved into this place last week and I've never seen a power shower before.


    Don't feel foolish. I see this on at least a monthly basis. It's a plastic box on the wall. Looks just like an electric showers :)


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  • #7
    sozbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭sozbox


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Don't feel foolish. I see this on at least a monthly basis. It's a plastic box on the wall. Looks just like an electric showers :)

    There's an electric shower in the en suite, with the string thing on the ceiling, is it normal they'd install two different types of showers in the same house?


  • #8
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    sozbox wrote:
    There's an electric shower in the en suite, with the string thing on the ceiling, is it normal they'd install two different types of showers in the same house?


    Yes. You can only use one electric shower at a time in a house without blowing the main ESB fuse. The one they have to come out to replace.


  • #9
    sozbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭sozbox


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Yes. You can only use one electric shower at a time in a house without blowing the main ESB fuse. The one they have to come out to replace.

    Didn't know that, thanks!


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