Shower Installation Specialists

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Service Overview

Which shower a home can take depends on how it makes its hot water. A combi boiler gives hot water at mains pressure, which Worcester Bosch says suits a mains-pressure mixer shower. A hot water cylinder fed from a cold tank in the loft gives low pressure, and that is what a pump-assisted power shower is made for.

We fit mixer, power and electric showers, with the pipework run to the valve, connected and tested. A new circuit for a shower is notifiable work under the Building Regulations, so the wiring for an electric shower or a shower pump is done by a registered electrician we bring in, who certifies it.

We charge £90 an hour for this work, with a one-hour minimum; after the first hour, time is billed in 30-minute blocks. Pick a time that suits you online: a £50 deposit secures your slot and comes off the final bill.

What we usually find

  • A valve built into the wall, or one on its face. A concealed valve needs the wall opened for its pipes and then retiled. A bar mixer sits on the tiles and takes its pipes through them, so the tiling can stay.
  • A handset that can reach the toilet. Water Regs UK treats a shower hose that can reach into a toilet or bidet as the highest risk to drinking water. A clip that holds the hose back, a shorter hose or a fixed head removes the risk.
  • A shower head that can lie in the bath water. The handset has to stay a set gap above the rim of the bath or the tray, or the supplies need double check valves, so that used water cannot be drawn back into the pipes.
  • Hot and cold that can cross. Water Regs UK asks for check valves on both supplies to a shower valve, so that under a fault cold water at mains pressure cannot push into the hot, or hot water into the cold mains.

The visit, step by step

  1. We look at the boiler or cylinder, and check the shower you have chosen suits it before anything is cut.
  2. With the water off, we run the pipes to where the valve will go, with a check valve and an isolating valve on each supply.
  3. We fix the valve, the rail or the fixed head, and the hose, set so the handset cannot reach the toilet or lie in the water.
  4. Once the supply is back on, we run the shower at full heat and full cold, and check every joint for leaks.

Before we arrive

  • Show us the boiler. A photo of it, of the cylinder and loft tank if you have them, and of the wall where the shower will go, added to your booking, tells us which showers will work.
  • If you have bought the shower, keep it in its box with the instructions, so every part can be checked before we start.
  • Clear the bath or the tray and the floor round it.

What is included

  • Checking the shower suits your boiler or cylinder
  • Running the pipework to the valve and connecting it
  • A check valve and an isolating valve on each supply
  • Fitting the valve, the rail or fixed head, and the hose
  • A hose clip where the handset could otherwise reach the toilet
  • The wiring for an electric shower or a pump, by a registered electrician we bring in, who certifies it
  • Testing every joint for leaks

What is not

  • Tiling round a new valve built into the wall: that is Wall & Floor Tiling, priced after a survey

Questions about shower installation

Can I have a power shower with a combi boiler? expand_more
Not as a rule, and you do not need one. A combi already delivers mains pressure, which suits a mains-pressure mixer shower, while Worcester Bosch describes the pump-assisted kind as made for low-pressure systems fed from a tank.
Will a new shower give me more pressure? expand_more
Only as much as your system has. A mixer gives the pressure its supplies already have. On a tank-fed system that depends on how far the loft tank sits above the shower head, which is why a power shower adds a pump there.

Deposits, cancelling and paying are on our FAQ page.

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Areas we cover

Ashtead Banstead Cheam Chessington Cobham Dorking Epsom Esher Guildford Kingston upon Thames Leatherhead Molesey New Malden Reigate Richmond Surbiton Sutton Twickenham Walton-on-Thames & Weybridge Wimbledon Worcester Park & Ewell
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