If i replace bathtub with standup shower

masculinist

Has anyone connected it to both an electric shower and the immersion tank ?
There's gas central heating and a lot of hot water in the tank during winter . To run a shower off the immersion would save a lot of money .however an instant electric shower is a requirement for the summer . Nobody wants cold showers during the summer .

Any thoughts about this ?

The stand up shower idea is basically preparing me for the day when I might start renting out my house . It would deal with damaging leaks or splashes in the strongest way .

Sleeper12

Most people that get an electric shower keep the old shower in place too. You'll have the best of both worlds

masculinist

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Most people that get an electric shower keep the old shower in place too. You'll have the best of both worlds

Thanks .
I already have an electric shower . What I'll have to do is plumb in a shower from the immersion tank , from the feed going into the taps . Any suggestions what I should do ?
Should I keep it simple and just plumb in a second connections from the bath feed and not touch the existing electric shower set up ?

homer911

masculinist wrote: »

Nobody wants cold showers during the summer.

Perhaps not in your house, but I love a cool shower in summer. Have you considered installing a solar hot water system? I have a 300l tank heated by the sun in summer and the boiler in winter. No electric shower needed..

masculinist

sugarman wrote: »

Its not really worth the hassle, like a 10 min electric shower only costs about 30c.. and speaking for myself, id be in/out in 5mins most days.

Running a shower for 10min off the immersion would use well over half of your tanks hot water, so barely enough for 2 people after one another anyway.

I'd swear my showers are costing 50 cent to a euro each. Maybe because I have high water pressure ? I have fantastic water pressure.
So lets say one shower costs 30 cent . Then one per day will cost 110 euro.
3 of us means 330 Euro. Sometimes 2 showers in a day is a nice thing to have. Lets say 350 euro in shower bills.
I'd sit there with my jumper on toughing it out and ignoring it but my partner likes to run the heating a lot in winter probably because shes from a warmer Mediterranean country and shes permanently cold here. Therefore we tend to have a lot of water in the immersion tank. Even if we ran it twice a day thats enough for more than enough showers. The heating might even be producing water in the morning while we shower.
I'll never win any sort of argument about heating bills with her. I have given up. I grew up in the 90s with single glazed windows and no central heating. Spending money on such ''luxuries'' is alien to me but for the sake of peace and quiet I'm quietly going about making the house as energy efficient as possible.
Even for a 110 euro per year saving , I think its worth the hassle of installing a stand up shower connected to the immersion. That would pay for itself quickly. And since theres 3 of us - thats lets say 2.5 times 110 euro so it should certainly pay for itself in 2 or 3 years. And the Triton T90 will stay on the wall in the exact same place so we can use it in the winter. Its just a matter of choosing and installing the shower tray and enclosure and the mixer taps to convert the former bathtub feed into a shower feed.
I had the good fortune to install a shower tray with someone last summer so I can use this to imagine and plan for my new setup. The question is where do I look for a tray and enclosure ? I was in Spain recently and there were so many mixer shower taps in markets etc brand new which were half the price you'd pay here. So its something to think about.

homer911 wrote: »

Perhaps not in your house, but I love a cool shower in summer. Have you considered installing a solar hot water system? I have a 300l tank heated by the sun in summer and the boiler in winter. No electric shower needed..

Great idea. It's way down the list at the moment though unfortunately. I'll get around to this sort of thing as the tech gets cheaper and I have paid for other projects

Right2Write

masculinist wrote: »

I'd swear my showers are costing 50 cent to a euro each. Maybe because I have high water pressure ? I have fantastic water pressure. So lets say one shower costs 30 cent . Then one per day will cost 110 euro. 3 of us means 330 Euro. Sometimes 2 showers in a day is a nice thing to have. Lets say 350 euro in shower bills.

If yous were paying for your water usage as well as your electricity as we all should be, that'd soon cool your enthusiasm and elec bills as well!!!!!!!!!!!!

masculinist

Right2Write wrote: »

If yous were paying for your water usage as well as your electricity as we all should be, that'd soon cool your enthusiasm and elec bills as well!!!!!!!!!!!!

I already pay for water through general taxation and extortionate road tax. If I didnt then the water system wouldnt even exist in the first place.

Sleeper12

masculinist wrote:

I already pay for water through general taxation and extortionate road tax. If I didnt then the water system wouldnt even exist in the first place.

I think the idea of the other post Was that long term we will be paying for water by the litre. Even if we don't we still should be looking at not wasting water as it costs so much to prosess

masculinist

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I think the idea of the other post Was that long term we will be paying for water by the litre.

When it comes to waste - the Oireachtas blows the rest of us out of the water.
However it looks like water charges are being refunded and in the long term we're all dead but we wont be paying by the litre for water on our graveside flowers any time soon.