The magic shower

I have a magic shower. Oh yes I do. Now this piece of magic shower kit was installed in 1991, back when water had just been discovered, and it is in need of an upgrade, to say the least.

Now don’t get me wrong. It still works. Well, works as in heats the water. And this is a bit of the problem. It has a digital readout (which was probably really cool and sophisticated for 1991) which goes from 1 to 8. One of the main problems at the current time is that the selector doesn’t really work, and it randomly chooses a temperature of water to supply. And more often than not the temperature it selects is 9….

So, time for a new shower. And this is where the first hurdle appears. Now, I have no plumbing experience, but I have been assured by a couple of people that changing an electric shower is relatively straight forward. So I was willing to give it a go. On examining the pipe work I did, however, notice that my flat has no tap between it and the mains water supply. This means that, for example, if my kitchen tap needed a washer changed, I would have to turn off the water to the entire block of flats. Not good.

Adding in a stopcock is not something I could even begin to consider myself. So a carrier pigeon has been dispatched to the Acme Plumbing Company, who are set to arrive on the scene at 2pm on Monday to give me an outrageous quote for fitting a stopcock.

It looks like 27 months after moving in I may finally get the shower fixed properly….