The new bed was just a shot across the bows. I can no longer pretend my life isn't going to change drastically.
The problem: no shower in bathroom. Contributing factors to the problem: no ready power source for use in the bathroom, and floor level hot water tank, so gravity fed shower not practical unless I lie down in the bath and play shower head along my body. (Which might be fun at first but would soon lose its appeal.)
Motivating factor: Best Beloved wants one. Boy needs one.
The solution: install a power shower! Something I have been putting off for lack of time and/or funds and/or motivation for far too long ...
And so I now have a 10mm electric cable dangling from my bathroom ceiling, next to a dangly switch that wasn't there 24 hours ago either. Follow it back via the trail of ripped off picture rails, holes drilled in walls, slightly wobbly bathroom floor tiles (turned out they were glued down), removed doors, uplifted carpets, replaced floorboards and more holes in walls, and you come to a brand new circuit breaker next to the fuse box. All courtesy of the Magician Electrician, Scotland's greatest export after single malt, a man whom I won't name because I suspect he's moonlighting but who gave up 12 hours of a perfectly good Sunday to do all of the above, and put his marital harmony at risk to ensure my own. What a guy.
Next step: get the shower installed ...
All things considered, I would rather be a plumber than an electrician. Unless it can find a way to seal off your nose and mouth, water has to try very hard to kill you.
Oooh! Plumbing!
ReplyDeleteWithout wishing to be overly pedantic, this sounds like an electric shower, not a power shower. But I could be wrong.
The 'power' in a power shower is the pump which delivers water at great force from your hot water tank directly onto your head. (We don't really approve of those because they are vastly wasteful of water, US-style. They also require separate plumbing as normally the water is drawn off the top of the hot water tank but for a power shower it needs to come out further down).
The power in an electric shower heats the water, so it can just be plumbed in to your existing cold water. This will provide the hot drizzly showering experience that the British have come to know and love (and is the only option for those of us who live in the loft space where our water tanks used to be), but will cause Americans and Northern Europeans to huff and puff about British plumbing.
I'm turning into quite the plumbing bore these days, aren't I.
A bore? Never! But yes, okay, it's an electric shower.
ReplyDeleteI still like to say "power" - it makes it sound grander and machoer.
"power" is better... afterall it rhymes, y'know, with 'shower'.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the plumber we use, putting in a shower (or more specifically, stopping all the dribbly leaks that slip out of the doorframes and plugholes after one's been installed) is "an art not a science".