Replacing an electric shower with a power shower

If you are installing a "standard" power shower then you will require a shower booster pump as well as the shower but you can buy a shower like the Triton Novel SR with its own integral pump supplied from the CWS cistern and the HW cylinder to give up to 14LPM.

there’s nothing wrong with your mixer shower, water pressure is the problem, I wouldn’t go putting in a triton like above if you want a proper shower up the water pressure for the whole house with a Grundfos pump in the hot press, that’ll transform the mixer shower, you can turn it into a proper rain shower.

We’re in the process of getting rid of the 2 tritons, we’ve already put in the pump for an upstairs shower, it’s a 6 star hotel experience. Well worth the investment. All your taps will also have a lot more power.

mines 30yrs old, needed to change a few taps as they couldn’t handle the pressure but you’re talking €30 worth of handles…he’s just been lazy. Should have told you it was the way to go or maybe he doesn’t understand what it’s like to live with the difference.

Tank above is an advantage, we needed the pump as the rain shower was going upstairs.

Not to be crude but the triton will feel like someone is taking a weak piss on you compared to a proper shower from a pressurised system.

Yes, but the flow rate is typically at least three times that of an electric shower. You need to heat three times the volume of water - off peak tariffs will certainly help, but it will still be more expensive than an electric shower of the same duration.

Albeit a more better shower

I do agree!

Energias off peak is over 4 times cheaper than their day peak rate, just fyi

I’m not sure what rates you are referring to, but typically these very low tariffs for a very short period are offset by higher rates at other periods.

I recently contracted with Energia. The rates are (incl vat);

night - €0.1436

Day - €0.2612

Peak - €0.2933

And a dramatically inflated day rate of nearly 41c a unit to compensate. You will get a much better deal than that.

Despite having the heating on in the winter, it's not true that it heats up the hot water cylinder free of charge.

There is a coil in the cylinder. This is like running an extra rad inside the cylinder to give you the "free" water. An electric shower far cheaper to run BUT doesn't give amazing pressure