Electric shower option

[Riley]

Morning all I wondered if anybody might go to help me out with some thoughts

Been out to a block of flats this morning to look at two flats owned by a landlord. Very old property and has a shared hot water source which has failed spectacularly so no flats currently have hot water.

The landlord is looking at putting in an electric shower so that the tenants can at least wash. I basically just want to go back to the landlord armed with a little information. They are proper shoddy little flats and don't appear to have a stopcock within each property. There might be a communal plant room but the foreign tenants were unable to assist with this as they couldn't understand what I was asking.

Basically I think my option is either trail a pipe all the way from the cold under the kitchen sink to the bathroom at the back of the property or to put in a shower that heats as well as pumps (if there is such a thing). Problem is in the absence of a stopcock I can't even work out if the kitchen sink is on mains. I know it should be but these flats are a state and would be reluctant to trust a lot of the piping I've seen.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way forward with this other than run away

Cheers

matt

 

[rocketmanbkk]

How was the pressure on the kit sink?

 

[Phil]

Run away!

I've done more or less the same job in the same type of flat up here, right down to the cracked windows, tank fed kitchen cold tap, foisty matress on floor, bottles of methadone everywhere, broken toilet seat and a smell that makes to want to plunge your head down the sewer for fresh air..

Run away!

 

[Riley]

Thanks chaps.

Kitchen pressure was better than bathroom but pretty naff