On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:39:57 +0100, "slider" wrote:

Use plastic pipe rather than copper

That would have worked but I was trying to use this wall plate that
had an integral copper tube:

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plum.../sd2696/p33291

If you had used a plastic pipe, how would you have secured the tap to
the wall?

That said, I don't know how good the wall plate above would have been.
I think the three screw holes would have been too close to the hole I
had made for the pipe and I may not have been able to secure it.