What shower with se...
 

What shower with serviceable parts?

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The current shower is dripping - ceramic disks that can't be replaced apparently. It's 5 years old, but it's a pain that it can't be serviced/maintained.

So what brands -  Mira, Bristan etc. can be serviced?

Model recommendations would also be welcome.

Current shower is concealed valve, vertical and runs a ceiling and additional shower head.

 

 
Posted : 17/03/2025 3:39 pm
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Let the rant commence, had a mira realm, running cold and cartridge was knackered a new cartridge was £141 pounds...... the shower cost me £220 so I bought a new shower. Split the old one to see if I could repair the cartridge let's just say it was a very "sealed" unit. 

 
Posted : 17/03/2025 8:14 pm
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Hansgrohe. New cartridge from NSS was £55. Needed a socket for a few quid from Halfords. As opposed to Hansgrohe’s own which was as much again. Mind you the showers are now a bit pricey. 

 
Posted : 17/03/2025 8:58 pm
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Not quite what you’re looking for but for what it’s worth I’ve got 3 Mira digital ceiling fed showers in the house, 2 of which are 10 years old. Living in a hard water area the idea of all the gubbins of the showers being in the loft with nothing buried behind tiles was very appealing as I could replace the units in minutes when they fail. 
in 10 years they’ve never failed. 
Very expensive tho 

 
Posted : 19/03/2025 12:10 am
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Mira and Grohe but my recommendation would be a bar mixer from one of them that way you can just replace the whole valve simply. 

 
Posted : 19/03/2025 6:00 am
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Another vote for Hansgrohe, had a couple of bits fail after ~15 years, one was 120Sek (12 quid) from the local DIY place. Only thing that had changed is one of the plated parts in the guts is now a dull grey instead of bright gold (think it was something to do with deletion of chromium plating) everything else was plug and play. Still a current model though.

The other part, a shaft in the tap body that wore out (thanks kids) required a new cartridge, which was 400sek/40 quid, the tap was discontinued 10 years ago. But the cartridge is now used in half a dozen similar looking taps.

 
Posted : 19/03/2025 9:15 am
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Thanks all, some useful ideas here. 👍 

 
Posted : 19/03/2025 1:09 pm
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No idea about serviceability but we have 2 x Grohe showers that are both 20 years old and we've never had an issue.
(Thankfully!)

 
Posted : 20/03/2025 9:17 am