Grohe or Mira shower?

1mm3 · 14 Aug 2016 at 13:57

Getting the bathroom done and looking at either:

Grohe euphoria 180 shower for £255 ?

OR

Mira agile ERD shower for £226 ?

I have a combi boiler with very good pressure.

I'm going for grohe taps in bath/ basin and a Mira flight shower tray.

supafly · 14 Aug 2016 at 15:30

Grohe is more premium I would say. We have eurocube shower via combi boiler, works very nice.

covenantuk · 15 Aug 2016 at 08:57

Grohe are better quality in my opinion

peterwalkley · 15 Aug 2016 at 10:57

I see Grohe in Hotels a lot, never seen Mira. So from that assume Grohe are pretty bullet-proof. A hotel isn't going to cheap out as losing revenue on a room with broken plumbing is going to cost them in the long run.

R.O.S.S.I · 15 Aug 2016 at 11:14

Sorry to hijack this a bit but are there any benefits of going exposed vs built in for mixer showers aside from aesthetics?

1mm3 · 15 Aug 2016 at 18:03

Thanks for replies guys- Grohe it is!

ROSSI: If anything was to go wrong you have easier access and can change things whereas if its concealed (built in) the plumber will need to take out tiles etc?

covenantuk · 15 Aug 2016 at 20:11

Rossi: If going concealed, avoid thermostatic mixers - the cartridge can fail and as above, you're into removing tiles.

If built in get plain hot/cold mixer taps in my view - though I have to say I don;t like thermostatic full stop.

Nedved11 · 15 Aug 2016 at 21:06

Grohe all the way, they had that shower on Amazon prime day for just over a hundred quid. Was very tempted but just fitted a new triton shower. Mira, triton and Grohe are all good brands to go for.

supafly · 15 Aug 2016 at 22:50

covenantuk said:
Rossi: If going concealed, avoid thermostatic mixers - the cartridge can fail and as above, you're into removing tiles.

If built in get plain hot/cold mixer taps in my view - though I have to say I don;t like thermostatic full stop.

With Grohe rapido concealed thermostatic valve it is easy to change cartridges, just pull off front cover, remove controls, then undo cartridges. Thermostatic controls are much better.