GB wibbled on Thursday 29 October 2009 22:13
I bought a very cheap shower mixer from Toolstation - this one:
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I can't quite believe that it has no fixing holes to screw it to the wall.
> Is that right? It's just supposed to hang off the pipework?
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> Also, I'm not quite sure I understand how to connect it. The mixer has two
> 'nuts' on the back that are a bit more than 13mm. There's then a sort of
> cranked threaded bit that converts it down to a 13mm thread that looks
> like it might take an olive and the nut from a 13mm compression fitting.
> Is that right?
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> I can see the point of the cranked bits, as it allows some leeway in case
> the holes are not quite in the right place.
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> So, what do you do exactly? You tighten all the fixings and I guess you
> can check for leaks before burying the connections in the wall. You then
> bury the fixings in the wall, but secured by what exactly, as the whole
> shower is hanging off it?
Isn;t there a shower wall plate that can help with this sort of problem - it screws to the wall and locates the pipes. Sorry , glaching memory, can't pin it down.
As for the joints themselves, if they were made off with something like Rocol Threadseal XS
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might help by giving some positive lock on the threads? Just ideas, don;t know for sure...