Thank God for the Government

You can always buy a thermostatic mixer for your bath if you want one; I
see no need for legislation. This was specifically about Baths and not
showers.

 

In any case if you've got a thick cast-iron bath you need to have the taps
running scalding hot in winter if you plan on having a bath in anything
other than lukewarm water

 

Not exactly common in modern builds though, are they?

 

No, but not unheard of either, especially if you're going for the retro
roll-top look

 

In all the houses I've had where I've done a rebuild or built from
square one I've always put thermostatic controllers on the showers but
never on a bath.
The last place had a two berth Jacuzzi en suite. It took 80+ gallons to
fill it over the jets etc. You needed the hot water *hot* so by the time
you added the cold, the bath was full before the hot tank was empty.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

Get yourself a pumped shower, you pikey.

 

answer a) because we don't have mains-supplied hot water?

answer b) you can have such a thing - it's called a "power shower"[1]
- I have one; it rocks.

[1] this is *not* the same as an "electric shower".

 

It does. It's lovely.

The North in "not as grim as the South" shocker!

 

And... I often fall asleep in the bath. When I wake up shivering I want
hot water, not luke warm stuff. It's all a plot to make me piss in the
bath to warm myself up and hence smell like Steve Auvache.

 

What he said. Mighty rocking

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Aye, they do that.[1]

Yeah, whilst staying with family over Xmas I got to use the new,
recently installed, electric shower. It was crap in comparison
to mine.

[1] When I had the bathroom done, the subject got onto which shower
I wanted fitted. I told them to just fit "the most powerful one
they did. One that can pin you to the back wall, if possible."

 

Combi boilers and power showers available in B&Q nationwide
non-shocker ...

 

we've one of each - our shower room in the (2nd-floor) loft conversion
needed to have a power shower to get the water up there, and we have
an "ordinary", but fairly decent Miras electric shower in the 1st
floor bathroom.

The electric shower is hot enough, but you sort of have to move around
a bit to get wet enough under it.

You could quite easily drown in the power shower.

 

I plumbed my old place with one, a lot less fuss but to do it as a job
for some one else, you have to be accredited a bit like 'Corgy' gas
installers and that costs loads of money.

 

Heh. Showers are meant to be quick. It defeats the object
if it takes five minutes to get your hair wet.

 

The Jacuzzi had an inline 3kw heater to keep the water hot. You could
come out looking like an old wet walnut.

 

For God's sake. Hot water is already dangerous enough, without pressurising
it.

 

of course in your case, you went into it looking like an old dry
walnut...

 

Heh. That's *got* to be a thread finisher.

 

*class*