Every home owner would love to have a beautiful bathroom built with a nice toilet, sink, mirror, and not to miss, a great shower. There are plenty types of shower available in the market but to get one that is easy to install, saves money and excels in performance, electric shower is one of the best choices around.
Electric showers are being widely used because of their quality, convenience and have better impressions than other types of showers.
Fitting the shower is relatively easy although it is recommended that you get a qualified electrician to wire it up to the electricity supply. Follow the steps to install an electric shower. Decide on the position for the shower unit and handset. Mark the position of the unit's fixing holes on the wall. Check that the marks and drill the fixing holes.
Drill a 1/2 inch hole in the shower wall to fit the copper branch pipe that will connect the shower head to the main water valve. Through the hole, the pipe is pushed. Measure and cut the pipe length to the proper size. Fit a stopcock to the end of the branch pipe.
Fit the T-joint to the rising main, only hand-tightening the cap nuts. Measure and cut an extra piece of connecting pipe if necessary to connect the T-joint to the stopcock, joining the branch pipe to the main valve. Once fitted, tighten the cap nuts and other joints well. Mount the shower head to the end of the copper branch pipe, attaching the shower unit box to the wall.
Next step is to provide power to the shower unit. In order to mount the pull switch, drill a hole in the ceiling. The cable is run from the consumer unit through the property to a suitable pull switch inside the bathroom and on to the electric shower. Cable of length 6 inches should be left at the switch position.
Connect one end of the cable leading to the heater to the second block of terminals in the switch face-plate: the red core to the live terminal (L); the black core to the Neutral (N) terminal. Connect the yellow-and-green core to the same Earth terminal (E) that the Earth core from the consumer unit cable is connected to.
Strip the cable connected to the shower unit. Connect the wires located on the shower unit to the "Mains" terminals of the pull-switch. The red wire should connect to the "L" terminal, the black wire should connect to the "N" terminal and bare wires should connect to the "E" terminal.
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