Shower in shepherds hut amps

[karen]

please excuse me as this may be a daft question. We are selling our shepherds hut. It has an 8.5kw triton shower. The buyers are saying their electricity supply won’t run the shower if everything else is in at same time. We had it on a 63amp max supply although would never go above 50 if absolutely everything was on. They are asking if the shower could be changed to gas or if there’s any other way round it. I’m a bit out of my depth here.

 

[Welder]

Sounds like an excuse TBH.

Any shower can be changed to whatever they like. However, it is up to them to determine what is suitable after working with their plumber/electrician. You cannot do anything as the seller.

 

[Murdoch]

How did you calculate or test the maximum 50 A load?

As for the buyers ....... find new ones?

 

[snowhead]

The easy way around it is for them not to run anything else at the same time or increase the size of the supply to the hut.

They're going to have the same issue with any Sheperds Hut or Caravan with an electric shower in.

They could put an LPG combi boiler in and use a shower mixer, assuming they've got good pressure on the water supply.

 

[karen]

Thank you. It’s been for sale a while and we want to sell ASAP - sale hasn’t gone through yet so trying to help with a potential solution. Combo boiler sounds like a good option - would that run from bottled gas?

 

[SimonG]

Stick a 7kw shower in. quick, cheap fix.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Thank you. It’s been for sale a while and we want to sell ASAP - sale hasn’t gone through yet so trying to help with a potential solution. Combo boiler sounds like a good option - would that run from bottled gas?

Yes you can get them to run on LPG, its the setup they have on a lot of the static caravan sites.