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Vidalux Shower Cabins: What’s in the Range and How to Choose
By admin | Product Reviews
By admin | Product Reviews
Vidalux’s shower cabin range on SPW splits into two products… the Pure, Kontrast and Hydro Plus plumbed range (needs a hot-water supply, various shapes in sizes 800mm to 1200mm) and the Pure E electric range (runs off cold mains only, with its own Triton electric shower built in). Which one fits depends on your plumbing, not just your room’s size.
You’ve landed on Vidalux, and fair enough… it’s one of the more recognised names on this site. But “Vidalux shower cabin” isn’t one product. It covers two ranges wearing the same badge, built to run on completely different plumbing.
Get that split right, and picking a size and finish is the easy part. Get it wrong, and you’ve either ordered a unit your existing supply can’t run, or paid for wiring you never needed.
This page sorts out three things: which Vidalux range actually matches what’s coming into your bathroom, what sizes and shapes are genuinely in stock, and what to check before you order.
Here’s what actually matters: everything Vidalux sells under “shower cabin” on this site falls into one of two families, and the difference isn’t cosmetic.
The Pure, Kontrast and Hydro Plus range is plumbed. It runs off your existing hot and cold supply through a thermostatic valve, and with the Pure and Kontrast it’s purely mechanical… no control panel, no lighting, no Bluetooth, and no steam capability at all. If your bathroom already has a working hot-water feed and workable pressure, this is the range built for it.
The Pure E range is electric. It runs off cold mains only, because it accepts a third-party Triton electric shower unit mounted to the column instead of a hot feed. One thing worth knowing before you buy: the electric shower’s own warranty sits with Triton, not with Vidalux, because it’s a separate manufacturer’s unit built into the cabin.
No electrical connection is needed anywhere on the plumbed Pure and Kontrast range. The Hydro Plus and the Pure E does need one, wired in by a qualified electrician… more on that below.
We’ve written the cold-water-feed mechanic up in full elsewhere, so we won’t repeat it here… read the Pure E cold-water-feed setup if you want the plumbing detail behind why Pure E doesn’t need a hot feed at all.
The right size beats the flashiest spec sheet, but the right range comes first. Get the plumbed-or-electric decision right, and the rest of this guide is just measuring.
Straight answer: SPW carries 43 products under Vidalux’s plumbed shower-cabin hub and 14 under the Pure E electric hub… between them, there’s a genuine spread of footprints, not just one size wearing different finishes.
The plumbed range… Pure, Hydro Plus and Komtrast between them… spans 800mm up to 1200mm, across quadrant, offset (left and right) and square shapes, in black, white and mirror finishes. If your old cabin sat in a corner, a quadrant is the like-for-like swap; if it ran along a straight wall, you’re looking at offset or square instead.
Kontrast specifically covers LUX and TS variants, with quadrant models confirmed at both 800mm and 900mm in each, plus an 1100mm rectangular LUX option if your footprint runs longer than it is wide. Don’t go looking for a 1000mm Kontrast TS… the live TS range tops out at 900mm.
The Pure 900 needs a minimum 2,300mm ceiling height, not just a footprint that fits… measure that too, because it’s the dimension most buyers forget to check.
Pure E’s own size range is quadrant shape sizes 800mm, 900mm + square shape sizes in 800mm and 900mm + off-set 1200mm x 800mm in either Left or Right hand.
For the full sizing logic across every brand we carry, not just Vidalux, our full guide to shower cabin sizing covers how UK retailers measure footprints differently.
Once you know your footprint, the plumbed Pure and Hydro Plus range is where to check current sizes and finishes against your own tape-measure numbers.
This is the decision the whole range hinges on, and it comes down to what’s already running into your bathroom, not what looks best in a photo.
Plumbed models (Pure, Hydro Plus, Kontrast) need 1 to 3 Bar of water pressure, and Vidalux caps it at 3.4 Bar across the range, 3 Bar specifically for the Pure Range, before it starts affecting the warranty. If your home runs on a gravity-fed tank without a pump, that pressure figure is worth checking before you commit… a low, unboosted supply is exactly the situation a plumbed cabin can struggle with.
Pure E sidesteps the pressure question entirely, because it runs off cold mains only and heats the water itself through its built-in Triton unit. What it needs instead is its own dedicated electrical supply, fitted by a Part P-qualified electrician… by law, to keep the warranty valid. Per GOV.UK’s Approved Document P, electrical work of this kind in a bathroom has to be carried out, or checked off, by someone qualified to do it. It’s not a DIY job.
Bottom line on power: Pure E comes with a choice of 8.5kW or 9.5kW Triton shower. The 8.5kW is the more economical of the two; the 9.5kW gives a stronger flow, and it’s the option Vidalux points buyers with a main bathroom toward. Neither is a downgrade… it’s a genuine choice, not electric settling for less than plumbed.
Stan’s take: “If your pressure’s on the low side, Pure E is the one I’d point you to first… it doesn’t care what your tank can push out, because it isn’t relying on it.”
Once you know which side of that split you’re on, the Pure E electric range is where to compare the 8.5kW and 9.5kW models against your own bathroom.
Here’s the bit people miss: Vidalux’s Leak-Seal design isn’t a silicone-free build, whatever the looser marketing headlines about it say. It’s a compression-sealed tray with return channels that catch any water getting behind the seal and route it back inside the cabin, and once it’s fitted, no silicone shows on the outside. That’s not the same as no silicone at all… the installation manual still calls for sealant during fitting. It’s hidden, not absent, and that’s worth knowing before you’re stood in the bathroom expecting a silicone-free job.
Beyond the tray, a couple of things carry across both ranges. An optional seat is available, rated to 100kg, though fitting it means drilling three holes in the tower panel and using the supplied strengthening plate… it’s not something you bolt on after the fact without a plan. On the Pure E specifically, the step up into the tray runs 210mm in total… 150mm for the tray itself, plus 60mm for the frame it sits in, a figure to check first if the cabin’s replacing a wet room or a low-level tray.
Also on the Pure E: the column keeps its controls and shelf set high, out of easy reach for a child, and the fully enclosed design cuts down on draughts and slip risk compared with an open cubicle. Small details, but they’re the ones that matter once the cabin’s actually fitted and in daily use.
For the showering features themselves… the monsoon head, riser bar and massage jets on the plumbed Pure range… the full run-down of Pure range showering features covers what’s actually built in, so we won’t re-list it here.
Cheapest first, best-fit second is how returns happen, and most of what goes wrong on a Vidalux order traces back to one of three things.
If you’re choosing plumbed, confirm your incoming water pressure and supply type before you order, not after the cabin arrives. Water Regs UK publishes the guidance on the compliance rules for fittings on a UK water supply… worth a check if you’re sourcing any connecting hardware separately from the cabin itself.
If you’re choosing Pure E, get a Part P-qualified electrician booked before you order, not once the box is on your doorstep. The dedicated circuit it needs isn’t a same-day add-on.
Whichever range you pick, measure ceiling height as well as floor footprint. It’s the dimension buyers forget, and taller models like the Pure 900 need more headroom than the tray size alone suggests.
On the cost of getting it wrong: UK cost-guide publisher Checkatrade puts the general range for supplying and fitting a shower at £300 to £1,500, with a standard electric-shower installation averaging around £400. That’s a planning range across the whole market, not a Vidalux or SPW price… but it frames what a wrong-range order can cost to put right.
Q: What’s the difference between Vidalux’s Pure and Pure E ranges?
A: Pure is a plumbed, purely mechanical shower cabin on Pure and Kontrast with no electrics… it needs a hot-water supply. Pure E has a Triton electric shower built in and runs off cold mains only, so it needs its own dedicated electrical supply instead.
Q: What sizes do Vidalux shower cabins come in?
A: The plumbed range spans 800mm to 1200mm across quadrant, offset and square shapes. Pure E’s sizes are similar, but 900mm is the largest quadrant – no 1000mm with he Pure E.
Q: Does a Vidalux shower cabin need an electrician?
A: The Pure E electric range… its dedicated electrical connection must be fitted by a Part P-qualified electrician. Apart from the Hydro Plus, the plumbed Pure and Kontrast range has no electrics at all, so no electrician is needed for it.
Q: Is a Vidalux Pure E cabin silicone-free?
A: No visible silicone once fitted, thanks to its Leak-Seal design, but the installation manual still calls for silicone sealant during fitting… it’s hidden, not absent.
Q: Will a Vidalux shower cabin fit a standard UK bathroom ceiling?
A: Check the model’s minimum ceiling height, not just the floor footprint… the Pure 900, for example, needs at least 2,300mm.
Vidalux’s own range splits clean in two… plumbed if your bathroom’s already set up for it, Pure E if it isn’t. Once you know which side you’re on, browse the wider shower cabins range to see both ranges side by side, and check today’s stock before you order.
Smart Price Warehouse is Est. 2006 and, in its own words, “one of the longest established re-sellers of steam shower products in the UK”… and it’s family-run, for what that’s worth when you’re choosing between two ranges that share one badge.