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I'm planning my shower. It's going to be over a bath. Because of where the shower head itself needs to be mounted it's going to be on the long side of the bath. So any exposed pipework would be very long. Therefore I want to do it with concealed pipework.
I plan to use just concealed pipework making a rear entry into an 'ordinary' surface mounted mixer, as opposed to a built in mixer.
Questions:
1. Any pros and cons of concealed pipework making a rear entry versus fully built in mixer?
2. I'm planning to actually 'sleeve' the built in pipes. I want them to be copper, so I'll sleeve them in something slightly bigger to protect against cement/plaster and also to make them removable. Any reccomendations of a sleeve? What has an internal dia just slightly bigger than the external diameter of 15mm copper.
3. This will be connected to a combi (Vaillant ecoTec 837). Any reccomendations for thermostatic mixer? It's my home, I'm only planning to do this once, they'll take me out of here in a box. So I don't mind paying now for quality, availability of spares etc. etc. I couldn't care less about trendy high tech looks. Solid engineering is what I'm after.
4. The pressures seem a bit odd sometimes since we had the new boiler. Maybe best to fit some sort of balancing valves to the bottom of the supplies just to the shower. Any suggestions as to best sort? They can be hidden behind the bath panel, set once and then pretty much forgotten about, hopefully.
5. How do I get that last bit of copper through the tiles? Tile round it or drill the tile (is there a tile bit that big!?).
Many thanks, Mike
I plan to use just concealed pipework making a rear entry into an 'ordinary' surface mounted mixer, as opposed to a built in mixer.
Questions:
1. Any pros and cons of concealed pipework making a rear entry versus fully built in mixer?
2. I'm planning to actually 'sleeve' the built in pipes. I want them to be copper, so I'll sleeve them in something slightly bigger to protect against cement/plaster and also to make them removable. Any reccomendations of a sleeve? What has an internal dia just slightly bigger than the external diameter of 15mm copper.
3. This will be connected to a combi (Vaillant ecoTec 837). Any reccomendations for thermostatic mixer? It's my home, I'm only planning to do this once, they'll take me out of here in a box. So I don't mind paying now for quality, availability of spares etc. etc. I couldn't care less about trendy high tech looks. Solid engineering is what I'm after.
4. The pressures seem a bit odd sometimes since we had the new boiler. Maybe best to fit some sort of balancing valves to the bottom of the supplies just to the shower. Any suggestions as to best sort? They can be hidden behind the bath panel, set once and then pretty much forgotten about, hopefully.
5. How do I get that last bit of copper through the tiles? Tile round it or drill the tile (is there a tile bit that big!?).
Many thanks, Mike