Hi guys,
I'm currently fitting a new bath and shower, and we've hit a snag with the exposed shower mixer. The house is 1930's, the original bathroom is on the ground floor, and is in a small room which is built on the side of the house (3 external walls, & roof). We wanted to chase the pipes in to the wall, but the problem is it looks like we'd need to chase out at least 4 - 4.5cm to have enough room to work with which seems like quite a lot to me? I think the inside skin is breeze/thermal block of some sort.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough room in our tiny bathroom to be able to build a false stud wall behind the end of the bath to conceal the pipes, because the bath takes up the entire length of the bathroom.
This has got me thinking about 3 possible ideas:
1. I could continue with the original plan and chase the pipes in to the wall, and down behind the end of the bath, and hope that we've not gone too deep and weakened the wall too much. That, and we'd have to attempt to insulate the pipes from risk of freezing. (We're side mounting the taps on the bath, so these wouldn't be in the way).
2. I could build a partial stud wall, 5cm deep, over the end of the bath only (problem is, this would trap the bath in place, though don't know if that really bothers me). The pipes could then be mounted on top of the original wall inside the stud partition and go down through the end of the bath. I'm thinking something like this: http://tinyurl.com/qyqrx5v
3. Alternatively, rather than going the full width of the bath, I could make a stud 'column' from ceiling to top of bath. Something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/ndjo7zc - not sure if this would look too ...odd maybe?
What I really wanted to do was just ask if you guys could think of any nicer alternatives? Or if you think any of the above ideas sound feasible and/or just idiotic
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Many thanks,
Andy
I'm currently fitting a new bath and shower, and we've hit a snag with the exposed shower mixer. The house is 1930's, the original bathroom is on the ground floor, and is in a small room which is built on the side of the house (3 external walls, & roof). We wanted to chase the pipes in to the wall, but the problem is it looks like we'd need to chase out at least 4 - 4.5cm to have enough room to work with which seems like quite a lot to me? I think the inside skin is breeze/thermal block of some sort.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough room in our tiny bathroom to be able to build a false stud wall behind the end of the bath to conceal the pipes, because the bath takes up the entire length of the bathroom.
This has got me thinking about 3 possible ideas:
1. I could continue with the original plan and chase the pipes in to the wall, and down behind the end of the bath, and hope that we've not gone too deep and weakened the wall too much. That, and we'd have to attempt to insulate the pipes from risk of freezing. (We're side mounting the taps on the bath, so these wouldn't be in the way).
2. I could build a partial stud wall, 5cm deep, over the end of the bath only (problem is, this would trap the bath in place, though don't know if that really bothers me). The pipes could then be mounted on top of the original wall inside the stud partition and go down through the end of the bath. I'm thinking something like this: http://tinyurl.com/qyqrx5v
3. Alternatively, rather than going the full width of the bath, I could make a stud 'column' from ceiling to top of bath. Something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/ndjo7zc - not sure if this would look too ...odd maybe?
What I really wanted to do was just ask if you guys could think of any nicer alternatives? Or if you think any of the above ideas sound feasible and/or just idiotic
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Many thanks,
Andy
