In message ,
(Jason) wrote:


Sounds like you are a shower enthusiast then Hwyl! I'd wager you prefer a
pumped shower to the other options :-)


The name's Martin. "Hwyl" is a greeting :-)

Not a particular enthuser over showers (difficult to take a book into
the shower to read), but I am confused that the electric shower seems to
be so common when there is often (granted not always) hot water freely
available from other, cheaper, more plentiful sources.

The pump is a compromise solution for the bog standard gravity-fed HW
system (yes, we have one). Most pumps (again, there are notable
exceptions) are noisy and give little impression of solidity, but the
cheapest pump on a gravity system can give even the most powerful
electric shower a good run for its money, and at a fraction of the
running cost - assuming the HW cylinder is in use and doesn't have to be
heated solely for the shower.

If you want lengthy and wide-ranging discussion on this and similar
topics, all you have to do is Google back into this group's past and
look for (particularly) anything written by IMM and Andy Hall on the
subject of hot water (try keywords such as "combi" or "two combis" or
"heat bank" or "plate heat exchanger"). Just don't go looking unless
you've a few hours to spare :-)

Hwyl!

M.

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