On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:26:20 GMT, "John Miller"
wrote:


"Alan James" 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?

I've fitted a couple of Screwfix bar mixers which look similar
though the
shower fitting is 3/4 BSP female. There was a 3/4 to 1/2inch
cranked
adapter which was best discarded. Check out if a 22mm street
elbow (BES
6851) plus solder to BSP male (BES 6836) is compact enough. Don't
think you
can get less. A problem which you don't mention is that the bar
fitting
relies on the pipe fixings for strength. You need to fix the
pipes firmly
to the wall behing before plasterboarding in which case you can
chase out
sufficient depth.

If the Triton shower really requires to be connected to a half
inch BSP
female fitting as you say then I'm stumped how it can ever be
tightened.

Alan

Alan
Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't explain the fitting very well -
the Triton bar mixer has two of the cranked 3/4 to 1/2 connectors
and the 1/2 end screws into the FI fitting. I had thought about
discarding these, but wasn't sure whether the connecting 3/4 nuts
would go onto a 22mm fitting.

John Miller



Does anyone actually know why these adapters are cranked?

Why not straight? I spent ages trying to get mine to line up so that
the bar mixer was level. Usually, one connector would tighten to, say
12 o'clock and the other to 6 o'clock, meaning a very wonky bar
indeed.

When I asked the manufacturer about this, they sent me some striaght
adapters, making it much easier to get level.

Rob


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