gold plated pipe

[JohnD]

I have a new shower mixer (surface mounted, round body) which has elbows with a 15mm compression/1" screw fitting.

Can I get matching gold colour pipe? Or gold coloured isolating valves to use as elbows?

It is replacing a bar mixer where the compressions went straight towards the (ply) wall and were the only thing holding the mixer in place, which I thought very unsatisfactory and difficult to remove for maintenance or replacement. The new one has a wall mounting plate.

the ply panel is (with difficulty) removable

 

[Softus]

Gi's a clue John - what make is it?

In my experience surface mounted valves come with colour-matched elbows so that you can turn into the wall and it still looks pretty.

Are you trying to mate it to the old connections?

 

[JohnD]

Ultra "Beaumont"

n.o.s.

The old mixer has 150mm inlet centres (which i thought was standard) but the instructions say the new one is 130mm so i suppose i will have to drill at least one new hole in the panel

Yes, it has come with gold elbows, but I was hoping I could have service valves adjacent to the mixer. the supplies behind the panel are cold from above, hot from below.

I might one day want a rigid outlet to a fixed head, for which I would want a gold pipe as well.

 

[Softus]

Ultra "Beaumont"

Is it one of these?

...or these?

If it is, then at least one retailer claims that it comes with a rigid riser rail.

n.o.s.

Sorry John; I don't know what that means.

....so i suppose i will have to drill at least one new hole in the panel

I think so too.

Yes, it has come with gold elbows, but I was hoping I could have service valves adjacent to the mixer. the supplies behind the panel are cold from above, hot from below.

It would be more usual, and a lot easier, to fit each isolating valve close to the beginning of the pipe run, i.e. outlet from pump, cylinder or CSS.

I might one day want a rigid outlet to a fixed head, for which I would want a gold pipe as well.

Now you're just being smutty again.

 

[JohnD]

Thanks

Looks like

Box is marked A4180 which i presume is the model. What price does the supplier charge?

n.o.s. meana "new old stock" meaning I got it from a Southampton supplier who'd had it on the shelf a long time. My box is definitely not big enough to put a riser into, I expect it was available with a downpour head separately. It is not on the packing list.

 

[Softus]

£190 + £20 delivery + VAT.

See here: Period Bathrooms

I have nothing to with this retailer - it's just where Blackle led me.

 

[JohnD]

hee hee! that's £190 plus VAT I saved

 

[Softus]

I saved even more than you, 'cos I'm not going to have to buy a gold riser rail.