Showerex is fuelled by the warm wastewater going down the drain, which instantaneously heats the cold water entering your shower. And amazingly, the dirty water never mixes with the clean water.
Showerex is a heat exchanger: a smartly engineered copper plumbing pipe with no moving parts, no fans, no pumps, nothing to fail, and no additional maintenance or running costs. Forever saving energy with every shower.
Every building and home with shower facilities can benefit immensely from installing Showerex as it complements and boosts performance (COP) of all water heating technologies: Electric, Gas, Heat Pump, and Solar.
Choose Showerex and embrace sustainability with an innovative technology designed to save energy and reduce costs. The Showerex solution delivers both immediate and long-term benefits.
Every time you shower, the waste hot water is money down the drain. Showerex cuts the daily cost of showering by up to half.
Installation is very simple. The connections of the Showerex fit most standard waste pipes.
Ideal for new builds, bathroom renovations, and can also be retrofit on pile homes.
The Showerex is simply installed in a shower waste pipe and transfers the heat from the waste "grey" water to the incoming mains cold water without direct contact.
Steve
Home Owner
Russell Baillie
Energy Manager, University of Auckland
Trent Fairey
Director of Design Rationale (Australiasia)
Showerex can dramatically reduce hot water usage, saving your business money. If your business has one or more showers, you need Showerex.
Showerex is an effective solution for many businesses including:
Typical annual return on investment varies, but is often above 40% and can be as high as 200% per annum with a 6 month payback period.
On low pressure systems including pumped and rural systems, Showerex can give you a much better and more enjoyable shower while saving you money.
"Our house uses a low pressure hot water cylinder in combination with pumped bore water. Therefore, by heating the high pressure bore water we required less low pressure hot water, thus reducing our hot water heating bill and producing a higher pressure shower."
Trent Fairey
Director of Design Rationale (Australiasia) Ltd
A typical New Zealand household can save over 35,000 litres of hot water every year and reduce their CO2 emissions by over 250kg each year just by installing a Showerex 1400.
Do your part to save the planet by installing a Showerex in your home and save money at the same time.
Our research shows that the most efficient and economical way to reduce energy consumption for showers, is to extract energy from the "grey" waste water and recycle it to pre-heat the incoming cold water.
The time for the incoming cold water to start heating is extremely quick and so it starts paying for itself almost instantly.
Showerex can recover 40 - 45% of the heat from the wastewater and save power on hot water heating in the process.
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