Replacing pillar taps?

[Quilted]

I'm sprucing up my bathroom, and I'm going to be changing my bath taps and waste.

At the moment there are two individual pillar taps around 6 inches apart. Edit : Measured and it's 7 inches / 180mm

Ideally I'd like a mixer instead. I notice most mixers for baths have two inputs and I'm wondering if they're a standard width apart... and if I can check if my pillar taps are that width... meaning I could replace them with a mixer tap.

I don't know if taps are fitted to a standard position in every bath or if they're just fitted anywhere and holes punched to match.

 

[denso13]

180mm centres are standard and most mixers will fit. Just double check when buying in case the new ones are non standard.

 

[Quilted]

Amazing news

I can get modern taps in my bathroom... I fancy those waterfall ones.

Thanks!

 

[TonyW2]

Check that the cold water bath supply in your house is not mains pressure, or that the taps can work on different supply pressures.

 

[Quilted]

The cold water supply is mains pressure, and the taps I went for said suitable for all pressure systems, but a minimum of 1 bar.

I'd already ordered by the time I saw you mentioning mains pressure.

"This tap has a minimum water pressure requirement of 1bar. This makes it suitable for all pressurised water systems so if you have a water system such as a combination boiler, Megaflow etc then this tap is perfect for you. If however you have a low pressure system such as a gravity fed (tank & cylinder) system then this tap is not recommended for you unless you are intending to fit a pump"

Will it be ok?

 

[denso13]

Do you have a combi, or a hot water cylinder somewhere?

 

[Quilted]

I've a 28kW combi boiler, which is less than 5 metres of pipe from the bath.

 

[denso13]

You'll be fine then, both hot and cold mains pressure.