Noobie Question - Elec shower removal

[Stoo Mac]

Evening folks!

Joined the forum today and here is the first question!

Doing my first "job" for a friend - re-tiling a shower room.

The shower unit is not being changed. I just need to safely remove it for tiling, then get it hooked back up again afterwards - which I have never done.

Is there a 'standard procedure' for this from a tiling perspective?

Should it be removed by a pro, or is this something tilers are expected to be able to handle?

Any advice on this would be great (if anyone is awake!?)

St:ninja:

 

[david campbell]

with most shower units you should be able to remove the front casing(usually clipped on to the back half) once you have removed this you can usually unscrew the back of casing from wall enough for you to get your tiles into:83:

 

[Stoo Mac]

OK. Good!

Hope it is that straightforward...

thanks

 

[david campbell]

just be creful when prising the front of(a screw driver usually helps) and make sure its switched of in the circuit breaker,also turn the water inlet of:santa_cheesy:

 

[Olz]

Turn the electricity off first mind, and if your uncertain about anything get a sparky to do it.

 

[BDS]

If you cant get tiles behind as said by the others i`d leave it and get sparky in,,,

 

[DHTiling]

I would have thought that there would be retainer screws keeping the face plate intact...check before trying to flip it off.....

be careful when easing foreward the back plate of the shower...you don't want to excert too much pressure on the inlet pipe....and YES!! Isolate the power....

 

[Dan]

It's not a tilers' responsibility to fiddle with electric showers, even taking the cover off to look could be seen as uninsured work and unqualified. That and Gas are the two most goverened trades I think, for obvious reasons.

That said I'm sure a competitent person with the right insurance can certainly isolate the shower and take off the cover at least, and you should find you can tile around the frame and guts of the shower that's left on the wall at least. I think.

Checkout www.electriciansforums.co.uk whilst we waffle about it on here though, I'm sure you'll get a decent response quite quickly.

Dave's right though, isolate what you can, and you may even find a valve somewhere on the water feed between the shower and the source of water to stop the water with a simple quater turn of the screw in the ball-valve.

Obviously then you could pull the whole thing off but if at the stage of fitting it back on something goes wrong who's to blame? - I'd get a pro in, especially if it's a customer and they can pay, or know somebody.

 

[medlar]

i can only re-iterate what the lads have said,isolate the power,turn off water,normally 2 small grub screws holding the face plate on.By the way,make sure that when you tile behind the back plate that you actually have enough movement on the feed pipe to bring it slightly forward to the fitting of the shower,some plumbers make the inlet pipe an exact fit,so you may have to alter the inlet.If not 100% sure,get a pro in mate

 

[Stoo Mac]

Thanks for the advice everybody. It is a job for a friend so I'll give it a go myself.

St:ninja: