Can I / how can I extend this shower pipe ?

[headache56]

I need to extend my horizontal pipe so that the Aqualisa shower head is further away from the wall. I was thinking of installing either a fixed straight longer pipe or the more usual flexible hose.

What can I / how can I buy something that might do the job. Will I ahve to replace the whole shower mixer mechanism ?

Any advice would be appreciated. Here are a couple of pictures :->

http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/...5678_photos/?action=view&current=IMG_5098.jpg

http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/...5678_photos/?action=view&current=IMG_5097.jpg

http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/...5678_photos/?action=view&current=IMG_5097.jpg

 

[Burnerman]

I think, if this was mine, I'd be trying very hard to replace the horizontal chrome pipe but it all depends on its diameter and threads on the ends - if any.
Its quite an old shower, this one and flexible hoses won't screw directly onto the outlet from the mixer unit - I'm fairly certain about that.
If that chrome pipe is 22mm then I'm sure something could be sorted by using push on fittings.
John

 

[WabbitPoo]

Or scrap the lot - those tiles and that shower are blimmin' 'orrible!

 

[headache56]

Yes, most erudite. Hey but the shiny pipes are the dog's nuts.

 

[TicklyT]

First, some careful measurement of the diameter of those pipes. With luck, they are standard 15mm or 22mm.

Judging by the jubilee clip around it, that top elbow has already had quite a hard life. Extending the horizontal run will put even more load on it, so replacing that with a chromed wallplate elbow may be a good idea.

If the thread on the top of the valve is either 1/2" or 3/4" BSP, it is a thread size commonly used on most 15mm and 22mm plumbing fittings, so the world is your oyster, so to speak. You might end up needing a new shower head to marry up with the new pipework, but you will be able to retain the shower valve.

If it is a non-preferred size, say, 19mm or something odd like that, I have a few more creative ideas, but nothing I could guarantee would work. As I have already said, the key to everything is an accurate measurement of the pipe diameter.

Wthout using a vernier caliper or micrometer, and without dismantling anything, just wrapping a strip of paper around the pipe, marking the overlap, then measuring the length of the strip and dividing by Pi (22/7 or thereabouts) can get you pretty close to the true diameter.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Or scrap the lot - those tiles and that shower are blimmin' 'orrible!

A Bates Motel original.

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• Whitespirit66
• 9 Feb 2011
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[Axel]

What the hell is that on the ceiling? Did someone pay extra for that effect??

 

[headache56]

Tickly T : Thank you. π (that's Pi) confirms 22mm so I will be getting the chrome wall plate elbow, ASAP.