Plumbers - quick question!

Raumarik

Raumarik

Raumarik

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We've got an electric shower, discovered it's leaking and frankly been badly installed. I don't want to touch it, connection is fiddly, too close to electrical cabling and I'm not willing to risk the wench's life on my DIY skills :p

How much should it cost (approx obviously) for a plumber to rip out this shower and plumb in a new one? I'm guessing he'd have to turn the water off outside of the flat as the stop cocks in the flat are under the bath and completely inaccessible - whoever plumbed the bathroom in really has a lot to answer for :D

God it's always something breaking in this flat..
 
We just had ours done for £213. Of that, £115 was a new Triton T80Z 8.5kW shower, £70 was labour and £28 was VAT.

Don't know how much plumber costs vary across the country, but this was in the Wigan/Bolton area.
 
Kami said:
How much should it cost (approx obviously) for a plumber to rip out this shower and plumb in a new one? I'm guessing he'd have to turn the water off outside of the flat as the stop cocks in the flat are under the bath and completely inaccessible - whoever plumbed the bathroom in really has a lot to answer for :D
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If it's an electric power shower then it won't be working off the mains so you'll need to empty the tank after turning off the stop ****. Is there no way to isolate it near the tank?

We had our old 1980s Dolphin shower replaced for about £50 labour, I got a Triton shower and he fitted it for me. I was tempted to do it myself but similar to you I didn't want to risk the missus life!
 
They are a piece of wee to fit.

Now onto the 4th one in 7 years. The water quality here is terrible - full of limescale so it kills them pretty quickly. Was a surprise the first time one went - huge bang and it tripped the power for the shower.

Can generally get them changed now in a couple of hours. Depends on how lazy I'm feeling.
 
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