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Thread Author: Ambo	Replies: 22

New Tue 8 Jul 14 10:12   Shower waste pumps - Ambo

Joint problems mean I can't use baths. I want to install a shower with a very low threshold, which would involve setting the shower base a few inches below floor level. As the external waste would then be too low for normal drain-off, this would necessitate fitting an electric waste pump. At £580 the quotation I have (for this item alone) seems vey high but can anyone with experience of such a system comment on its reliability and noise level please? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 10:35   Shower waste pumps - devonite

£550 squids! - get in here quick!! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHOWER-WASTE-PUMP-NIDEC-403-930-CONTOUR-H2OXTRACTOR-081218C-SWP-PRIMO-XTRA-12075-/221470341366?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Bathroom_Shower_Units_PP&hash=item3390a938f6 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 10:42   Shower waste pumps - commerdriver

My late mum had a similar system, reliable in use but noisy, especially with the last few drops of waste water, don't remember the cost as it was done in a bathroom refit including other things. Don't know your situation she was in Paisley and the council (social services department?) paid half, would have paid all if she hadn't had reasonable pension etc. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 13:39   Shower waste pumps - MJM

As an alternative, would a ramp be possible instead? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 14:40   Shower waste pumps - No FM2R

>>would a ramp be possible instead? Or a broad pedestal? We have an electric pump in a shower. It sounds like No. 2 daughter sucking up the last of a Ice Cream Sundae through a straw. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 17:56   Shower waste pumps - Ambo

Good noise analogy but how long have you used it without problems? There is not room for a ramp or a pedestal. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 18:07   Shower waste pumps - No FM2R

Oh a long time. 7 or 8 years perhaps, maybe more. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 18:09   Shower waste pumps - No FM2R

p.s. which almost certainly means they're better now. By the way, just as a last thought, you could make it a wet room and have no shower pan at all? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 8 Jul 14 18:53   Shower waste pumps - Aretas

I know nothing about such fittings, but wonder if you have to take precautions to prevent waste water from other devices - toilets, basins - coming up through a low shower floor? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 09:41   Shower waste pumps - Ambo

Good point for me to raise, Aretas. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 10:04   Shower waste pumps - Crankcase

We have a small downstairs shower room. I thought a wet room might be good - and then discovered the price. It's a LOT of money to make a proper wet room, with suitable waterproofing and drainage. The first quote was about 5k, and when I decided that must be a joke and got another elsewhere, it was 7k. As I'd thought it would be about £50 for some tiles and and a bit of grouting I gave up the idea; even if I hammered it down to half the quote, which is unlikely, it was far more than I'd want to pay for such a thing. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 10:26   Shower waste pumps - Fenlander

>>> It's a LOT of money to make a proper wet room And I genuinely don't understand how they are any advantage in the average home... apart from the apparent status when the installation cost and tile choices are discussed at a social gathering. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 10:32   Shower waste pumps - Boxsterboy

The other problem with wet rooms is that you no longer have a shower cubicle to clean after each use, you have a whole room to clean. They get very messy in use unless you are fastidious with the cleaning. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 10:23   Shower waste pumps - Focusless

>> They get very messy in use unless you are fastidious with the cleaning. Presumably that depends to extent on the type of water you've got - here in Reading limescale builds up in no time. I don't think my parents in the Lakes know what limescale is :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 11:05   Shower waste pumps - CGNorwich

Reading water is certainly hard but it's even harder in Norfolk. A real problem. Thinking of getting a water softener. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 11:13   Shower waste pumps - commerdriver

>> Reading water is certainly hard but it's even harder in Norfolk. >> So why is Reading water even harder in Norfolk? couldn't resist it, sorry :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 11:41   Shower waste pumps - sooty123

Yes I remember when living in Norfolk how much limescale was in the water. Some of the new houses were built with filters in them in the area. I worked with quite a few scots none of them could drink the water from the tap, all of them used to buy bottled water. They found the taste left it undrinkable. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 11:55   Shower waste pumps - CGNorwich

Actually I think it tastes ok. It's just the havoc it plays with plumbing, washing machines kettles etc Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 12:00   Shower waste pumps - sooty123

I suppose it depends what you are used to. It was noticable the difference, not enough to buy bottled water. But if you came from the countryside in Scotland it would taste very different. Yes appliances don't last long. I think we had to buy new stuff more frequently. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 10:32   Shower waste pumps - Crankcase

We stayed in some upmarket B&Bs that had them, and I liked the space. The shower cubicle we have is titchy, so you end up leaning against a cold wall or banging your elbows. Putting in a new larger cubicle means so much alteration to existing infrastructure anyway I thought a full wet room would be the answer. But too many pennies for a miser to contemplate in the end. I'll live with a titchy shower. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Jul 14 10:46   Shower waste pumps - Fenlander

The only thing remotely like wet rooms I've used is in modern well speccd holiday cottages near the sea where it is expected folks might have been swimming. One had a downstairs utility type room with a sort of durable non-slip plastic type flooring that curved up the wall and had a drain in the middle. Big sink thing where you could rinse off a wetsuit and a toilet but the shower was still in a cubicle... curved front with a natty curved sliding door and easily big enough for two or more (!). The other had something very similar but as an en-suite to the main bedroom and no wetsuit was facility. To me they were ideal as you could use the shower spray to rinse down the whole room if needed but they kept the high moisture levels broadly within the shower cubicle to be extracted directly above. Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 9 Jul 14 at 10:48 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 13:41   Shower waste pumps - Ambo

I started using wet rooms in 1953, in Malayan estate bungalows. They were delightfully uncomplicated. They contained nothing but a tap and an overhead pipe - my pay grade didn't qualify me for a shower rose. With more seniority, I graduated to a fully-equipped one, i.e. one with a large Shanghai jar and a dipper. The idea was to sluice water over oneself, a delightfully uninhibited way of bathing. Waste water ran out of the ground level hole that occasionally attracted snakes, and away into the bushes. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 10 Jul 14 13:50   Shower waste pumps - Alanovich

>> my pay grade For some reason I first read that as "gay parade". Better pop down to see Dr Leech for a course of leeches, I suppose.* *Blackadder reference, for the benefit of the terminally confused Reply to this message | Report message