While we're on the subject, I need a surface mount thermostatic mixer shower for my new showeroom.
Pipes through wall - no - they'd end up in a bedroom!
I'm after the original (70s-80s) type where they'd surface mount and you'd take chromed surface pipe into them.
Can't seem to locate any. Been through Aqualiser's entire catalogue and they seem to assumed the pipes go into the wall.
Anyone seen what I'm talking about?
I was interested in this because I will soon have a similar problem.
This is merely an example, but it seems a good workaround:
Sir, you are a genius!
Bookmarked - just what I needed.
In fact the pipes won't be much exposed - shower will be in the corner - pipes just need to go down, right a few inches and through a stub wall edge whereby they'll be under the basin.
If the wall is thick enough, then they can be "in" rather than through. I did a retrofit for a Aunt's bathroom like that once where I needed a
3" deep excavation in a 4" block wall. With a light touch on the SDS I managed it without going right through to the landing on the other side of the wall!Have you tiled it already?
One easy option would be a bar mixer, where you could mount surface right angle 1/2" BSP female sockets on the wall to take the stubs from the mixer:
(the bar mixers usually come with BSP nipples with one 3/4" male end for fitting into the nuts on the back of the valve body, and then a 1/2" male end for going into the wall sockets. The smaller end if typically offset from the centre of the 3/4" end, so you can do some fine adjustment of the height and spacing by tweaking the rotation (they are normally taper fittings and so can be sealed in a number of rotational positions with enough PTFE)
See this vid from the 2 min point. (its for a bath mixer - but the fitting is the same as for a shower bar mixer)
(the only bit that will need a bit of thought is whether you can use the chromed cowl bits for hiding the joint)
I bought one about a year ago and most of those I considered had inlet pipe connectors that could be angles back through the wall or straight up/down for surface plumbing.
Mike
No - but it's rock hard brick and I am not a fan of buried pipes.
Ah - yes. Similar solution to the Triton link.
I like bar mixers so this seems to be the way forward (with the Triton adaptors for neatness).
Thanks :)
While also not a fan of buried pipes, there are times where they are the least bad option IMHO.
A wall chaser would sort the bricks (or if you can collect the dust, dare I say an angle grinder!)
Last time I buried pipes for a shower, I buried PEX barrier pipe, included some thin insulation round them to allow for some expansion and contraction room, and then plastered them in before tiling. That way there were no joints in the wall except where they joined the shower valve.
The last set I bought were a damn sight less than £30! (More like a fiver IIRC.)
You snipped the bit where I said they were just an example.
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