Electric shower recommendation

[pc1966]

A friend of mine has an electric shower that is playing up. She said it is 11kW but I know the largest MCB in her house is 40A so something is wrong either way. Replacing cable, etc, is not really on so I am wondering what sort of suggestions folk have for an electric shower in the 9.2kW region that works with low-ish water pressures and keeps a sensibly constant temperature.

TL;DR Best shower at 9.2kW

 

[Let me think]

For me cheap and cheerful Triton T80 range.

Only problem I've ever had with them is when some "fool" redo his bathroom, reconnected shower only to find it wasn't functioning properly, so bought a replacement after all previous shower was 10years. Replacement was same model to match existing pipe work.

Only to find original shower was fine, but problem was down to do some debris getting into water feed pipe to shower ("fool" hadn't covered it properly when tiling)...BTW this goes no further than us, as far as my good lady is concerned previous shower had packed in.

 

[telectrix]

the womenfolk of this nation seem to think that if it's broke, buy new. lost count of the number of things i've repaired at negligible cost. e.g. start button on fumble dryer stopped. on investigation, it's a momentary switch. actual button presses on the switch on the controll panel pcb. it relies on bending a fragile bit of plastic as a "spring" return. 2 bits of cut down cable tie and some gorilla glue made stronger than BEKO's feeble attempt.

 

[Moley]

Last two have been Triton. First was over 10 year old when we moved house. Was still working well when we left. I fitted a Triton when we moved to the house we are in now over 10 years ago and it lasted until end of last year. Fitted another Triton to replace it. As you can probably guess I'm happy with Triton.

 

[Let me think]

the womenfolk of this nation seem to think that if it's broke, buy new. lost count of the number of things i've repaired at negligible cost. e.g. start button on fumble dryer stopped. on investigation, it's a momentary switch. actual button presses on the switch on the controll panel pcb. it relies on bending a fragile bit of plastic as a "spring" return. 2 bits of cut down cable tie and some gorilla glue made stronger than BEKO's feeble attempt.

For some reason when the door handle on our oven broke (also held glass panel in place), my good lady wasn't impressed with my cable tie solution. I eventually gave in 2 years later an bought a new oven.

My cheapest and probable not my best temporary solution, was when our washing machine broke down over a bank holiday weekend - brushes had worn so much that springs didn't enough length in them to make good contact. So wedged in some paper between brushes and spring, machine worked fine until I could source replacement brushes - days before innerweb and shops were shut on Sundays and bank holidays. ?

A few years later, same machine, main drum bearing had gone. Good lady wanted a new machine, I was like no, this machine had given us many years of good service. I'll just get a new bearing for it, only for me to shatter the cast mount trying to 'remove' the bearing, for being over zealous with the hammer, no amount of duct tape was going to hold/put that back together. Of course I told my wife machine had just fallen apart (poor build quality) and it was nothing to do with me.....the look of disgust on her face would suggest she didn't believe me.

 

[telectrix]

For some reason when the door handle on our oven broke (also held glass panel in place), my good lady wasn't impressed with my cable tie solution. I eventually gave in 2 years later an bought a new oven.

My cheapest and probable not my best temporary solution, was when our washing machine broke down over a bank holiday weekend - brushes had worn so much that springs didn't enough length in them to make good contact. So wedged in some paper between brushes and spring, machine worked fine until I could source replacement brushes - days before innerweb and shops were shut on Sundays and bank holidays. ?

A few years later, same machine, main drum bearing had gone. Good lady wanted a new machine, I was like no, this machine had given us many years of good service. I'll just get a new bearing for it, only for me to shatter the cast mount trying to 'remove' the bearing, for being over zealous with the hammer, no amount of duct tape was going to hold/put that back together. Of course I told my wife machine had just fallen apart (poor build quality) and it was nothing to do with me.....the look of disgust on her face would suggest she didn't believe me.

you should have told her that the machine broke because she washed her knickers every month instead of twice a year,

 

[pc1966]

Resurrecting this thread as more info has come in - apparently the "recommended" replacement to minimise effort is the Gainsborough Stanza 9.5kW. I don't really want to be roped in to tiling or anything beyond trivial plumbing so that is tempting.

So, any comments on how pants (or otherwise) they are?

Any suggestions of the best place to get one? So far Plumbworld looks best, but we have trade accounts with a few of the usual suspects (CEF, Edmundson, Holland-House, Yesss) so if anyone knows please let me know.