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Shower Features Explained: Electric, Power, Thermostatic, Eco, Digital…

Buying a shower is a confusing task. You’ll find a number of features you probably don’t know the meaning and if you need them or not.

This quick guide will simplify all possible features. So read on and find out the perfect model for you.

Electric Showers

If you’re changing a shower in an existing home, consider your current situation to find out if you need an electric model or not. If you’re building a house, you can decide how the water is going to be heated.

If you opt for gas or solar heating instead of an electric system, you’ll spend more on the build, but you’ll start saving money once it’s finished. Heaters, electric showers and air conditioning are the home items that consume the most electricity.

Pros

• they waste less water, because when you open the shower they start heating it up immediately;
• are usually cheaper than mixer showers with a separate boiler, but it depends on the number of showers benefited by the same heater;
• the plumbing installation is more simple, once you only need to distribute cold water.

Cons

• of course, the high electricity consumption;
• the narrower range of installation types and features available;
• they usually look worse and have a separate device, that takes up space and interferes in the decoration;
• they require a separate circuit and a high-capacity electrical supply;
• if your house runs out of power, you’ll get immediately out of warm water.

Due to the large list of cons, most homes have a separate heating system. Electric showers are usually used when this system doesn’t provide enough hot water.

Power/High Pressure showers

Power showers are attached to a pump, that increases water pressure right before it passes through the shower.

Ir order to know if you need one, you should check the water pressure where the shower will be installed. You probably don’t need it, unless you have gravity fed, low-pressure water system.

If you already live in the house or apartment and are just replacing a shower, you must already know from experience if you have enough pressure or not.

Thermostatic showers

Thermostatic showers are mixers able to keep the temperature steady, even if the volumes of cold and hot water that feed it change, which may happen due to someone else opening a tap or flushing a toilet.

Eco showers

Eco showers can save up to 50% more water than normal models, by reducing the flow to an efficient level. Both electric showers and mixers offer this feature.

Digital showers

Digital showers are controlled by a separate panel, that can be placed up to 10 meters away from it, or even by remote control or a phone app.

Either way, you can be sure to get into a shower in the ideal temperature instead of setting while in the cold (or too hot) water.

Spray patterns

Jet, massage, rainfall, full, flood, pause, soft and wide are some of the options you have to pick a shower exactly the way you want the water flow to feel.

This will also depend on the size of the shower head, which determines whether the water flow will be more spreadwide or more concentrated.

Wow. Did you figure picking a shower would involve so many decisions? I hope this guide has made it simpler for you!

Besides from the features, you have to decide the type of shower: handheld, dual, ceiling or wall mounted.