Spec me a mixer shower

elrasho · 11 Feb 2013 at 00:44

My mixer shower has broken so I need a new one. Here's a picture of the current one:

Not sure the make and model of it and I don't know what bar it pushed water out. My boiler is a Worcester Junior 24i and looking on the boiler itself the pressure gauge is on 1.5 bar out of a total of 4. So shall I get a mixer that can pump out at 1.5 bar?

mattyg · 11 Feb 2013 at 00:51

Mira.

You wont need to replace the shower if it ever goes knackered as you can buy replacement cartridges for them.

That pressure on your boiler is for central heating not water supply

elrasho · 11 Feb 2013 at 00:55

How does this look: http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/mira-element-thermostatic-2129-17767

arknor · 11 Feb 2013 at 01:47

Is the screw bit on the bottom of some mixer showers to alter the ratio of hot/cold ?

Participant · 11 Feb 2013 at 07:17

We have a mira mini duo exposed valve and it's been flawless. Would happily buy a mira again.

Nursie · 11 Feb 2013 at 08:33

elrasho said:
How does this look: http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/mira-element-thermostatic-2129-17767

Looks like the shower we have.

The one slight annoyance is the shower hose is permanently attached to the riser rail. Meaning you don't get a huge amount of reach with the shower head if you take it out of its holder.

jcb33 · 11 Feb 2013 at 09:06

elrasho said:
How does this look: http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/mira-element-thermostatic-2129-17767

I have this one, it is fantastic, as above it is attached to the rail forever once put on the wall, but if you don't thread it through in the first place problem solved.

The shower gets so much pressure that if I hold my hand above it, it will hover in the air

Jcb33.

elrasho · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:21

I'll have to find another shower, that one has 153mm gap between the centre pipes I need 150mm. Shame since it has everything I needed too

mattyg · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:22

Thats 1.5 mm for each inlet. Are you sure it wont fit.

Have you defo measured correctly

elrasho · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:24

mattyg said:
Thats 1.5 mm for each inlet. Are you sure it wont fit.

Have you defo measured correctly

Yes measured it exactly as 150mm. Even got a B&Q to measure it for me to when I went down to look at their range of mixers.

mattyg · 11 Feb 2013 at 14:32

Did they measure centre to centre.

I wouldn't trust B&Q but they may have it right

Do you have any flex in the pipes at home

elrasho · 11 Feb 2013 at 15:14

mattyg said:
Did they measure centre to centre.

I wouldn't trust B&Q but they may have it right

Do you have any flex in the pipes at home

Yes centre to centre. No flex at all, the pipes come straight out of the tiles. I'm looking for 150mm version of the above mixer.

elrasho · 14 Feb 2013 at 16:06

Finally found a shower that would fit. Petty much all mixers are 150mm center to center. However the width of the pipe hole is only 15mm on my mixer, but all showers now have 22mm width holes.

So I had to trawl around shops looking for a shower that had 15mm connections, finally found one at B&Q: Mira EV for £110. It comes with Z connectors that convert from 15mm to 22mm. Was easy to install and works a charm, looks good too.

Participant · 14 Feb 2013 at 22:49

They don't look good, no, but hey you found one that worked and it does the job.