taps for roll-top ci baths?

[John Stumbles]

Can anyone suggest suppliers of taps for the sort of old fashioned cast iron roll-top baths where the tap holes are on the vertical surface of the bath, rather than horizontal as on modern baths? Ideally looking for a telephone-style bath/shower mixer, but the hole spacing is about 238mm.

[Toby]

Individual short projection Globe taps are usually fitted. Bristan do a couple of them in their 1901 and Renaissance ranges from about £60

Just like this? Sit down and brace yourself before clicking.... These are sample items but at £400, £525 & £250 may be steep, but they'll fit

be a tricky one, modern regular telephone handset style mixer fitted to the bath with inline mounts would probably be too low. In the same situation, I know of a couple who wall mounted their taps and blanked off the original holes.

Combine "Wall mountings for ¾" cranked Bath shower mixer (chrome) I3130" with "¾" Cranked Bath Shower Mixer (chrome) I303X" from

would work if the hole spacing can be verified.

Regular spacing is 150mm on the back of a BSM mixer, with splayed pillar unions it becomes 180mm between centres.

Your spacing looks decidedly tricky, so maybe a three part set such as

(Hudson Reed - available everywhere) with the filler spout wall mounted and a separate shower fitting/control on the wall would be appropriate.

Taking this a step further, maybe you can use a secondary outlet from a recessed wall shower mixer such as the Plumbworld one,

and fit just one tap and the spout to the bath, then use the shower mixer for temperature control of both bath and shower. The bath tap controls the spout flow & the shower mixer controls flow to the handset via a wall elbow.

(I have this one, it's got a removable threaded plug in the base allowing blended water to be output to another item irrespective of the position set on it's own flow control

)

[John Stumbles]

last set look OK, but what I really could do with are just cranked flanged inlet pipes for an ordinary BSM set like this:

| ---------\\\\\ 3/4" | / BSP - - - - - | / --------\\\\\ male ^ | / / | | / / c. 75mm offset ||\ / / | \\\\\\\ -------- / v / - - - - - \\\\\\\ ----------

3/4 ||/ BSPM | | | Your spacing looks decidedly tricky, so maybe a three part set such as

Unfortunately wall-mounting is probably out as I'm encouraging the client to have the bath free-standing in the room rather than against a wall (it's a big enough room and with the roll-top bath it'll look better in the middle).

I've the (cheaper) Sol one that BES do (£100 inc VAT for the valve on its own) which also has a blanking plug at the bottom. I did try getting the plug undone but it was in _very_ tight. When I redo the bathroom properly I'll probably get this out and use it as you suggest as a thermostatically-mixed supply for filling the bath. At the moment I find it btter to take the head of the shower hose and fill that bath from that (it's pumped) than faff around with the BSM.