Power shower recommendations

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Since we moved into the house 2.5 years ago, we've only used the electric shower, when I investigated the alternative en suite power shower last week, I found burnt out electrical insides ( was expecting an airlock) so I am thinking to replace it.
The current model is a Redring Expressions 520TS, which has an RRP of £300, which seems wonderfully excessive for a power shower.

What models do people have, what would they recommend?
 
Mira Azora showers seem decent enough, They do the job as well as any other showers, but are just shy of £300 too, I've seen a few and they are nice/work well.

If you just search for "Mira Power Shower" then you'll find some that are cheaper, and look similar to the one you have just now.
 
Having seen inside the power shower I am at a loss as to what I am paying £300 for.
Never having seen the one I have in action, it seems priced at the top of the market, and the miras you speak of look similar, but why are they so dear?
 
I've got a Mira 10.8kW shower. The quality isn't that great tbh and the parts are pricey.
 
norm said:
Redring Expressions 520TS

That's not actually an electric shower. Electric showers work solely off cold mains supply, and if you're used to a power shower you'll find it woefully underpowered.

Build quality is key to reliability as the cheaper ones often break. Best make/performance is this.

http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/mira-sp...n=GoogleBase&gclid=CLqhkaLDkcICFSjItAod-lgAPA
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Sorry let me explain, we have two redring showers, an electric one, and the power one I mentioned above. We've never used the power one, we have used the electric one.
The power one is electrically burnt out, and needs replaced.

Thus I was asking for a replacement, not an electric shower.

Do power showers also heat water? As I thought they took hot and cold, mixed it, pressurised it, and sprayed it out. do they have heating elements also?
 
I couldn't rate Aqualisa high enough, we have a one of their digital quartz's and it's been nothing but fantastic.

I used to go to hotels and think what a nice shower now I go to hotels and be disappointed
 
I too have an Aqualisa pumped digital shower, it's much better than an all in one "power shower" and it blows any electric shower into the weeds.

They aren't cheap - the one I bought had an RRP of about £550, but I'm seriously glad I took the advice of this forum, particularly from maccapaca and Nightglow.
 
Yeah wish I did this, my electric shower was ok until it got furred up with crappy Berkshire water :(

As for hotels i get spoilt by the monsoon in my regular hotel
 
Interesting
Looked at the Aqualisa Quartz Digital Exposed with Adjustable Head HP Combi
and I am utterly confused.
Where is the shower bit? I mean the electronics, the box, the mixer, all that jazz, it isn't in just that little handle bit, is it?
 
Do you have a combi boiler (that shower is for High Pressure combi systems as the name suggests )?
If so, why are you bothering with electric showers and power showers, just fit any old mixer shower you fancy.
 
Lopéz said:
Do you have a combi boiler (that shower is for High Pressure combi systems as the name suggests )?
If so, why are you bothering with electric showers and power showers, just fit any old mixer shower you fancy.
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So thats why my water pressure is so good in my flat. I wondered how they did it.
 
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