"PhilÅ" wrote in message
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Silicone-rubber based... you can get sanitary grade stuff which
incorporates a fungicide; don't know how effective that is at inhibiting
mould but presumably can't be worse than non-fungicidal stuff

Also guys and lasses, the new shower thingie??. It will go through a
plasterboard and tiles, but what supports it to the back of the plaster
board???. If it is just the pipes, it will just fall off me thinks??

Shower thingie... that a technical term :-) Would help if you explained
what type you're using: eg an electric one in a plastic enclosure? one
of those steel 'bar' models? All have different solutions for fixing.

Thanks for the reply, it is a bar thingies mixer, will have two threaded
pipe ends sticking through the wall??

Thought that might be it - they're b*****s to fit solidly, especially with
cavity walls of some sort. Screwfix do now provide an accessory fitting
pack which is well worth looking at - item ref 56419 if you can get on their
site! Also do a google of "56419" on uk.d-i-y archives; you'll find
discussion of this pack previously.

BTW you mention plasterboard in the shower: you'd be much better off using
aquapanel board instead (search the archives for that too!) as it is much
stiffer than plasterboard (so takes tiles better) and if it does get wet,
won't disintegrate like pb does. Lot more expensive (comes in 900x1200 mm
sheets for about a tenner IIRC?)

David