Installing a Bristan mixer tap and pop-up waste in a bidet - the Bristan instructions have the glib phrase - "Attach the waste body to the basin, and connect the pop-up control rod"
From the top - the waste flange, a bedding of plumber's mait, the porcelain, plastic washer, then the waste body, with control rod pre-installed.
Need to thread the two halves together, and there's nothing to grip on the flange, and the waste body will only rotate through 15-20 degrees, as the control rod fouls on the sides of the bidet.
What do you folks do? Remove the control rod, and fit it again later?
I fabricated a tool to insert in the top of the flange, engaging in the slots around the barrel, and tightened it down. Eventually get to the point where the flange is working against the plumber's mait, and it all gets a bit messy.
Suggestions for recommended approach, please. Anyone make a tool that works like reverse pliers to engage in the barrel slots?
Later on, get everything in, and everything wants to be in the same space as everything else. The control rod for the pop-up fouls both inlet pipes, and the waste trap and exit pipe. I can bend the tap tails out of the way, but the waste trap and pipe can't move anywhere. I could find a trap which exits slightly lower, but this would lead to later pipes running uphill to the eventual waste exit.
Regards, Graham
From the top - the waste flange, a bedding of plumber's mait, the porcelain, plastic washer, then the waste body, with control rod pre-installed.
Need to thread the two halves together, and there's nothing to grip on the flange, and the waste body will only rotate through 15-20 degrees, as the control rod fouls on the sides of the bidet.
What do you folks do? Remove the control rod, and fit it again later?
I fabricated a tool to insert in the top of the flange, engaging in the slots around the barrel, and tightened it down. Eventually get to the point where the flange is working against the plumber's mait, and it all gets a bit messy.
Suggestions for recommended approach, please. Anyone make a tool that works like reverse pliers to engage in the barrel slots?
Later on, get everything in, and everything wants to be in the same space as everything else. The control rod for the pop-up fouls both inlet pipes, and the waste trap and exit pipe. I can bend the tap tails out of the way, but the waste trap and pipe can't move anywhere. I could find a trap which exits slightly lower, but this would lead to later pipes running uphill to the eventual waste exit.
Regards, Graham