Sorry, bit of an untidy post - correction below......


"Adrian Berry" wrote in message
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"John Miller" wrote in message
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Further to the bathroom renovation, I need to fit a shower mixer
(Triton Aire bar type). The instructions call for it to be
connected to a half inch BSP female fitting where the face of the
fitting is flush with the finished (tiled) surface. It's going onto
a dry lined wall and I intend to run the supply pipes up the wall
from the floor. My problem is that a standard BSP elbow fitting is
too short to reach through the plasterboard and tiles and a standard
soldered elbow plus straight BSP connector will be far too long.
Approximate distance from solid wall to tiled surface will be 40mm.
Anybody got any experience of this or could offer any suggestions -
it must be a common problem. Only solution I can see is to cut the
plasterboard and tile over the gap, but I'm not very happy about
doing this.

I note that Screwfix have a special fitting for bar mixers -
somebody else asked about these recently, but I can't recall seeing
any replies. Does anybody know whether these fittings would help?

John Miller



15mm compression fittings have a 1/2" BSP thread, so how about removing the
nut from a FI coupler (Screwfix 12341 or what I think you are calling a
straight BSP connector ) and screwing it into a wall plate elbow (screwfix
17416) fixed to the solid wall. Haven't got the bits to hand right now to
check but I think the distance is approximately correct and the wall plate
could always be packed out from or chased into the solid wall to tweak the
level. If you use enormous quantities of PTFE tape between the two bits,
you can make a watertight seal by screwing the fitting only partially into
the wall plate, just as you would with a bib tap in order to get it
vertically aligned - this would give a further adjustment.

HTH
Adrian