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Shower hose connector
I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The
other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. -- Roland Perry |
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On 19/12/2011 16:34, Roland Perry wrote:
I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. Not a lot of pressure difference, you won't need the ridges provided you have enough friction. So any old bit of tube which is a reasonably tight fit. Add cable ties and/or adhesive if it slips off. |
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In message , at 17:57:02 on Mon, 19 Dec
2011, Newshound remarked: On 19/12/2011 16:34, Roland Perry wrote: I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. Not a lot of pressure difference, you won't need the ridges provided you have enough friction. So any old bit of tube which is a reasonably tight fit. Add cable ties and/or adhesive if it slips off. I'm not so sure, the existing repair has failed due to larger than expected pressure difference across the shower head. And I probably would glue the ridges too. For other bits of tube, is here anything standard that might work (eg normal copper piping). -- Roland Perry |
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On 19/12/2011 18:37, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 17:57:02 on Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Newshound remarked: On 19/12/2011 16:34, Roland Perry wrote: I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. Not a lot of pressure difference, you won't need the ridges provided you have enough friction. So any old bit of tube which is a reasonably tight fit. Add cable ties and/or adhesive if it slips off. I'm not so sure, the existing repair has failed due to larger than expected pressure difference across the shower head. And I probably would glue the ridges too. For other bits of tube, is here anything standard that might work (eg normal copper piping). If the hose is 11 mm bore (ID) that rules out 10 mm or 15 mm copper. 1/4 BSP is 13 mm OD so BES part 13517 might work, especially backed up by two jubilee clips. http://www.bes.co.uk |
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writes On 19/12/2011 18:37, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 17:57:02 on Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Newshound remarked: On 19/12/2011 16:34, Roland Perry wrote: I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. Not a lot of pressure difference, you won't need the ridges provided you have enough friction. So any old bit of tube which is a reasonably tight fit. Add cable ties and/or adhesive if it slips off. I'm not so sure, the existing repair has failed due to larger than expected pressure difference across the shower head. And I probably would glue the ridges too. For other bits of tube, is here anything standard that might work (eg normal copper piping). If the hose is 11 mm bore (ID) that rules out 10 mm or 15 mm copper. 10mm with an olive soldered on works well for a situation like that (with jubilee clips) but you need to be a true diy-er to have stuff like that in stock. The 'other end buried inside the bath' bit is curious to me, surely the hose must be removable and therefore replaceable somehow? -- fred it's a ba-na-na . . . . |
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In message , at 22:16:44 on Mon, 19 Dec 2011, fred
remarked: The 'other end buried inside the bath' bit is curious to me, surely the hose must be removable and therefore replaceable somehow? It's a Jacuzzi bath, and the retractable shower cord disappears through a grommetty thing in the rim. I don't want to take the sides off and crawl round the back if I can help it. -- Roland Perry |
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On 19/12/2011 16:34, Roland Perry wrote:
I've got a shower hose which has split where it joins the head. The other end is buried inside the bath (via a none too waterproof grommet). The simplest repair is to get a new shower hose (and probably head) and connect the two 11mm tubes together. I'm having difficulty finding the right connector though. I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 Looking pretty is not a requirement, the whole installation will be replaced next year. I have this sort of thing on my Kitchen tap, it has a standard shower hose end that connects to the tap head that pulls out, and the other end has a smaller propitiatory connection on he end, so replacing it with another shower hose was not an option. If you take the shower off the end of the hose, can you pull back the screw part like this? www.tobybell.co.uk/images/IMG_1531.JPG If so, on mine, it was possible to prise the metal part at the end forward - This was shaped like a hat With a hole in the top, with the inner water pipe pushed round the top part of the hat and then held in place by being inserted into the hole in the end of the outer pipe - nothing was crimped, it was all just pushed together, so I trimmed off the inner pipe, and re-attached it to the "hat" and pushed it back in. -- Toby... Remove pants to reply |
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In article , Roland Perry
writes In message , at 22:16:44 on Mon, 19 Dec 2011, fred remarked: The 'other end buried inside the bath' bit is curious to me, surely the hose must be removable and therefore replaceable somehow? It's a Jacuzzi bath, and the retractable shower cord disappears through a grommetty thing in the rim. I don't want to take the sides off and crawl round the back if I can help it. Understood. Do you still want it to retract, so no jubilee clips? Is it a metal concertina sheath on the hose or thick plastic one? Just measured a 10mm olive here and it is 12mm o/d so that could be one option, fab a joiner from 10mm + 2 x 10mm olives but only if you have stock, 10mm isn't avail in less than silly lengths and would prob only work on fully plastic hose. Ah, just searched for 11mm hose joiner and got: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alloy-Hose-J.../dp/B004IYSCN6 Plenty of other hits, more if you can make do with 10mm and pinch it up. -- fred it's a ba-na-na . . . . |
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In message , at 01:16:17 on Tue, 20 Dec 2011, fred
remarked: The 'other end buried inside the bath' bit is curious to me, surely the hose must be removable and therefore replaceable somehow? It's a Jacuzzi bath, and the retractable shower cord disappears through a grommetty thing in the rim. I don't want to take the sides off and crawl round the back if I can help it. Understood. Do you still want it to retract, so no jubilee clips? It doesn't need to retract at all, but the joint will be right next to the shower-head so it would still retract almost all the way if ever needed. Is it a metal concertina sheath on the hose or thick plastic one? They are both plastic. Just measured a 10mm olive here and it is 12mm o/d so that could be one option, fab a joiner from 10mm + 2 x 10mm olives but only if you have stock, 10mm isn't avail in less than silly lengths and would prob only work on fully plastic hose. Ah, just searched for 11mm hose joiner and got: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alloy-Hose-J.../dp/B004IYSCN6 Plenty of other hits, more if you can make do with 10mm and pinch it up. Thanks. -- Roland Perry |
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In message , at 23:12:38 on Mon, 19 Dec
2011, Toby remarked: If you take the shower off the end of the hose, can you pull back the screw part like this? www.tobybell.co.uk/images/IMG_1531.JPG If so, on mine, it was possible to prise the metal part at the end forward - This was shaped like a hat With a hole in the top, with the inner water pipe pushed round the top part of the hat and then held in place by being inserted into the hole in the end of the outer pipe - nothing was crimped, it was all just pushed together, so I trimmed off the inner pipe, and re-attached it to the "hat" and pushed it back in. I hadn't thought of that, and it looks the same, maybe I'll give it a try. The plastic tube is broken right where it enters the metal connector, of course. -- Roland Perry |
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In message , at 16:34:17 on Mon, 19 Dec
2011, Roland Perry remarked: I think what I need is an 11mm version of this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/plastic-ou...7-x-17mm/37103 The final answer, in the absence of any readily available pre-engineered solution, has been to buy some 10mm aluminium tube from B&Q, which is a sufficently snug fit inside the 11mm shower tube to work (with some glue). B&Q also had several hose connectors of the same general form as the Screwfix one above, but either much too big or too small. -- Roland Perry |
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