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Electric shower - what am I missing?

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  • #32
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Can you do it for 500 to 600 inc vat without even looking at the job?
    Like I said shower installation companies can usually do it cheaper. They fit so many showers they buy them by the dozen.
    It's just so much simpler for the homeowner.

    Being honest, not for 500 without looking. But I always prefer to see the house first unless I am familiar with their layout.
    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    He suggested that anyone with a drill can install an electric shower from scratch. This is obviously not true. I gave lots of examples of bad jobs & ways that tradesmen could leave a working shower & yet the installation would be all wrong.

    On this I completely agree with you. :)


  • #33
    Flood
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Flood


    Sleeper12 wrote: »

    A shower installed by a trained shower engineer statistically gives less trouble & has a longer lifespan than a shower that a non engineer installs. How often do you hear plumbers saying that the tritons are louder than a mira even though they use the same motor. An engineer knows it's down to the acoustics of the wall. They learn how to compensate for this.

    How does a so called shower engineer compensate for this oh wise one?


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Flood wrote:
    How does a so called shower engineer compensate for this oh wise one?


    Sometimes you can't and sometimes you can. The simplest one is use 5 screws instead of 2. 2 screws are usually fine on a concrete wall . The reason they have 5 holes for screws is not that it needs 5 screws to hold it two the wall but because sometimes 5 screws will change the frequency of the vibration.
    Sometimes you can use a different wall in the shower. The Shower pole doesn't have to be on the same wall as the shower unit.


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