Shower 15mm wall mounted feeds - elbow edge showing through wall

[Sophieisking]

Hi everyone.

I have my 15mm copper shower pipes coming through the wall ready to mount shower fast fix kit over the top. The problem is, the elbows are showing through the wall slightly (from where the wall coating was going to be thicker) so now the fast fix kit won't push back all the way.

Any ideas on what to do?

I thought either make some mount brackets to account or the size, or bore out the back of the brass shower bracket slightly so it will fit further back? Not sure how to do that neatly though. Please see photos

 

[Laurieo]

Stepped drill bit would do it .

 

[Jackrae]

You'd lose all it's stregth if you bore enough out to accept the previous c0ck up.

I suggest you have 2 options ;
a) cut into the wall and correct the piping problem so's the elbow is sunk below the surface or
b) fit 10mm sheet of whatever over the complete wall so's the elbow ends up 'buried'

A job worth doing is best done once

 

[Sophieisking]

Thank you for your replies so far. The wall is microcement so cannot be covered or drilled into.

Any specific type of stepped drill bit? It only need to drill about 4mm deep into the back of the brass at I presume a width of 16mm

 

[Jackrae]

You need a friend with a lathe - much neater and better than trying to drill brass

 

[Stivino]

Put the chrome trims on and put a bead of silicon over the 4mm gap. Once the chrome trims are on, the gap might be less than 4mm.

 

[Bod ...]

De-solder the pipe out the fitting.

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Cut one of these down and grind off the chrome. Make a a perfect clean to brass.

Insert and solder into fitting. You then have your thread.

Your pipework needs to he spot on for this to work.