Hi,
I have what (hopefully!) should be a fairly straightforward question.
I have a Bristan Artisan shower and live in a fairly hard water area. In the 6 years I've lived here I have had to replace the thermostatic cartridge twice - however, the 5yr warranty on the shower has now run out. Seeing as a new cartridge is almost £60 I picked up a Triton Cromo mixer shower in B&Q for £60 in their half price/clearance sale today, figuring that made as much sense as a new cartridge (the shower head could do with replacing, etc).
Anyway, I went and drained the system ready to fit the parts and... the pipe connections on new mixer bar are the wrong size for the existing pipes! To explain what is there currently:
2x exposed chrome pipes from the attic (hot and cold feeds), running almost against the tiling down to 2x 'couplings' that are screwed to the wall - these are basically 'L' connections that screw into the tiles to anchor the pipes and allow the mixer bar a place to screw onto.
This is my issue - the openings of each 'L' piece are too small to accept the connections on the Triton. So I'm looking through my Screwfix catalogue and I'm assuming I'll be OK to just get some compression connectors and 'bridge' the 2 fixings? Unfortunately the connector pieces on the Bristan won't unscrew to allow me to use them on the Triton (or at least, attempt to).
I did think these things might be a standard fitting... Doh! I can take some pics (or link to some on the web) if required, but being a pleb I've screwed the Bristan back on and put the water on again now so I can't provide a pic of those fittings, although I did take measurements!
Many thanks for any pointers.
I have what (hopefully!) should be a fairly straightforward question.
I have a Bristan Artisan shower and live in a fairly hard water area. In the 6 years I've lived here I have had to replace the thermostatic cartridge twice - however, the 5yr warranty on the shower has now run out. Seeing as a new cartridge is almost £60 I picked up a Triton Cromo mixer shower in B&Q for £60 in their half price/clearance sale today, figuring that made as much sense as a new cartridge (the shower head could do with replacing, etc).
Anyway, I went and drained the system ready to fit the parts and... the pipe connections on new mixer bar are the wrong size for the existing pipes! To explain what is there currently:
2x exposed chrome pipes from the attic (hot and cold feeds), running almost against the tiling down to 2x 'couplings' that are screwed to the wall - these are basically 'L' connections that screw into the tiles to anchor the pipes and allow the mixer bar a place to screw onto.
This is my issue - the openings of each 'L' piece are too small to accept the connections on the Triton. So I'm looking through my Screwfix catalogue and I'm assuming I'll be OK to just get some compression connectors and 'bridge' the 2 fixings? Unfortunately the connector pieces on the Bristan won't unscrew to allow me to use them on the Triton (or at least, attempt to).
I did think these things might be a standard fitting... Doh! I can take some pics (or link to some on the web) if required, but being a pleb I've screwed the Bristan back on and put the water on again now so I can't provide a pic of those fittings, although I did take measurements!
Many thanks for any pointers.
