A Department of Housing tenant and her two grandchildren with disabilities have been too scared to use an exposed portable shower at their home while work to fix an asbestos risk in the government-owned property they moved into months ago is completed.

The portable shower was dumped in the front yard of the state housing property.

The portable shower was placed in the front yard of the Cloverdale home on Friday for the grandmother and her grandchildren to use while their bathroom, at risk from asbestos, is being fixed.

The grandmother, who asked only to be known as Ivy, said she feared her grandchildren would be shocked, as was the case in another Perth public housing property, because the portable shower had to be connected to a garden tap and an electrical extension cord.

Denishar Woods was 11 when she was shocked with up to 230 volts when she touched a garden tap at a public housing property in Beldon in March 2018. A report, released in September, could not lay blame over what led to the electrical earthing system and associated water pipes to become live.