Electric shower advice please.....

[Baddegg]

Fitted 9.5 kw aquas aquamax shower today (customer supplied) and new full rcbo consumer unit, all good except the shower is absolute s£&t! Even on the highest setting the water is only moderately hot, water pressure seems fine and no different to any other showers I’ve fitted, one thing I did notice was when I clamped the meter tails with the shower running on full heat it only ever pulls approximately 15amps,new 10mm cable run in void under the floor for approx 18mtrs to a chase in the wall upto isolation switch with pvc wall panels over that,plenty of free air around the cable,admittedly I’ve never had to clamp a shower before but does that seems low for a 9.5kw shower?
Thanks as always

 

[static zap]

oddly, the waste water charge is higher, at £344.76.

Do you reckon this varies with property House/Land size ,or just a flat rate ...
Some vary with rain fall disposal !

 

[Gary Gemmell]

Haha Gary...I'm a posh pirate! LOL! NOT! I simply cannot understand why my Council Tax band is so high. I recently downsized to a flat from a much larger house, yet my band only dropped from a G to an F, so i pay only marginally less per month for a property with less than half the floor area. As for actual water consumption, the system is gravity-fed, pressure is poor, so I have had to fit a pump to my shower. The hot water is from a cylinder with immersion heater. My last house had a combi boiler and the shower was also a pumped Aqualisa thingy, so I have gone from unlimited hot water to severely limited hot water, thus I am using much less water than before as i also don't have a garden to water, nor do i wash my car any more, I take it to the car-wash. I reckon I use less than half the water I did before, yet I am paying almost as much. The water charge doesn't really take account of the number of people living in a house, which would suggest that water metering would be a fairer way of charging.

Aha so its Newton Mearns then lol
You dont live in Whitecraigs flats do you lol?

Yeah sounds like the old 70's John Lawrence flats and houses they were magic the best bricks and design with massive gardens and proper pipes and good plumbing ahh the days of proper workmanship.

I bought a house in Kilmarnock Toponthank and moved out after 6 months it was a nightmare new build houses are a complete disaster - two houses in the street (Rosemill Estate Kilmarnock - lets name and shame Barratt - those jokes we used to tell at school in the 80's about Barratt and the fudd in the helicopter came true i should have listened - stupid me one of the biggest mistakes i made in life).

The double glazing was made of wood, i found out from one of the sparkies that i got friendly with that all the central heating and plumbing was installed by non-corgi certified engineers so 3 houses flooded in the 6 months i was there and one was condemned by the council with no one allowed to move in), i also had free leccie as my house was the last to be finished and was never registred with Scottish Power so I never had to pay leccie - The new owner if he is not a plonker will probably still have free leccie - the back garden was just rubble, pavements werent finished or the roads so cars were falling down massive potholes, my front lawn had so many bumps on it when i flymowed it it took the tops off most of the lawn which went brown and looked like a minefield and more but i digress - NEVER BUY A NEW BUILD HOUSE!

I must admit i like the old cylinder hot water tanks although my thermostat has just failed so needs whipped out and a new one installed - its removing the element that is nasty and i hope it doesnt fail but it has been in since 1963 and is still going strong - the stuff from the old days seems much more reliable than modern combi boilers i would never have one myself - i just installed a £15 wifi 4kw Sonoff switch so i can switch it on when i am on the way home on the bus so the water is ready for me it has one of those old Horstmann boiler manual controls from the 60's on it and i have a cold water tank providing water but my shower i connected up to the mains feed so its pretty powerful even though i am on the third floor!

Why dont you get your shower plumbed into the mains its an easy job if you have access to the rising main pipes in those old flats its usually in the cupboard number 1 in the kitchen.

 

[Dan]

Keep this thread on topic. We've had some reports to Google about the content, apparently. I've cleared up the thread I'm sure it's just confusion but somebody somewhere was offended and reported it.