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Schütte MADURA shower column WITH thermostat, 38 °C detent review

The first column on this page that arrives complete: a thermostatic mixer included, a 38 °C detent, and a bracket that reuses existing holes.

The bottom line The complete column from a maker you can telephone. It publishes almost nothing about its own dimensions, which on a column is a real gap.

What you are getting

A chrome shower column with a thermostatic mixer included, a 38 °C detent, separate flow and temperature controls, a changeover between head and hand shower, a height-adjustable wall bracket, the complete fixing set, German instructions and a five-year warranty.

Why “included” is the whole review

Three columns in this hub cost half as much and state, in their own first lines, that no mixer is supplied. Adding a thermostat afterwards costs more than the difference. Read the price of this one against a cheaper column plus a thermostat, and it stops looking expensive.

The detent, restated

The maker writes scald protection. It is a detent: a stop the hand meets at 38 °C, released by a button. It stops the handle being turned casually into hot water. It does not guarantee the water leaving the fitting is safe, and where that guarantee is needed the device is a thermostatic mixing valve specified for the purpose.

The gap

No dimensions. No rail height, no head size, no bracket spacing, no flow, no minimum pressure. On a column — a fitting that has to physically span two holes in a tiled wall — that is a real absence, and the two cheapest columns here do better.

Availability

On sale from 111 € to 143 € on the German and Spanish Amazon stores at the time of checking.

Also on sale on the British Amazon store, in the local currency: the range above is measured on the euro stores only.

The French and Italian Amazon listings are priced above 1.6× the cheapest store, which is normally a reshipping offer rather than a local price; they are left out of the range above.

Not found on the American Amazon store, where the buy link falls back to a local search rather than to a page that does not exist.

Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 5 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

What we like, and what we don't

Strengths

  • A thermostatic mixer is included, which is what the three cheaper columns in this hub deliberately leave out
  • A five-year manufacturer warranty and a German service address, both stated
  • The complete fixing set and German instructions supplied, with a bracket that reuses existing holes

Compromises

  • Publishes no dimension at all — not a rail height, not a head size, not a bracket spacing
  • The maker calls the 38 °C detent scald protection, which is not what a detent is
  • No flow figure and no minimum pressure, on a column whose thermostat needs pressure to balance

Specifications

Centre distanceNot stated as a figure — the wall bracket is height-adjustable so existing holes can be used
Overall heightNot stated by the maker
Adjustable height rangeNot stated as a figure — the wall bracket is stated to be height-adjustable
Head sizeNot stated by the maker
OutletsTwo — head shower and hand shower, on the thermostat changeover, stated
Minimum operating pressureNot stated by the maker
FinishChrome — stated
Amazon referenceB00E6QEY7Y (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN4008431600468

Questions people actually ask

Is this a complete shower?

Yes, and that is what separates it from the three columns below it here. Rail, head, hand shower, thermostatic mixer, fixings and instructions. The cheaper columns supply everything except the tap, which is the part that costs the most to add afterwards.

Is the 38 °C setting a safety device?

No. It is a mechanical detent — a stop your hand feels, released by a button. It prevents an absent-minded turn into hot water. Where genuine scald prevention is required, a thermostatic mixing valve specified for the job is what provides it.