I acquired a nice, unused double-ended bath on eBay for 99p
yesterday. It has no fittings and the only holes drilled are central
ones for overflow and waste, so I thought I might equip it with an
overflow filler/pop-up waste combination and wall-mounted taps so as
to leave the top undrilled.

These overflow fillers turn out to be surprisingly expensive.

I have found http://www.bathroomstudios.co.uk/ who do one complete
with taps for GBP39 (http://www.bathroomstudios.co.uk/lecicobw.htm),
but I cannot find anywhere else that will sell even the filler bit for
less than GBP50 (Boundary Bathrooms
http://www.boundarybathrooms.co.uk/ is the best I have found).

Why, I hear you ask, do I not just buy from Bathroom Studios then -
well they do not do any kind of mail order and are in Clacton. I am in
Manchester.

So, does anyone know where I can buy such a thing for a remotely
similar price either by mail order or in person.

ALternatively, does anyone know where I might be able to get Lecico
bits in or around South Manchester as their web site has a handy
stockist locator that is broken.

Yet more alternatively, if there is a reader in or near clacton who
fancies popping down there and buying a set and posting it to me, I
would be most grateful.

And before anyone asks - my shoulders ache from being hunched over the
keyboard googling for them.

Peter

Why, I hear you ask, do I not just buy from Bathroom Studios then -
well they do not do any kind of mail order and are in Clacton. I am in
Manchester.

Have you actually tried calling them, and asking if they will send them to
you?

I have don this with outer non mail order companies, and they were happy to
do it!

Sparks...

"Sparks" writes:

Why, I hear you ask, do I not just buy from Bathroom Studios then -
well they do not do any kind of mail order and are in Clacton. I am in
Manchester.

Have you actually tried calling them, and asking if they will send them to
you?

Yes. Very pleasant, but intransigent.

Peter

The tap company's website gives a list of stockists IIRC.

Regards
Capitol

Lecico?

Regards
Capitol

Capitol writes:

The tap company's website gives a list of stockists IIRC.

Lecico?

Lecico indeed, but if you go to the page that is supposed to let you
see stockists it is less than fully functional. It used to always give
me an error, regardless of how I searched, and now the page doesn't
even get served properly....

It may, of course, be because I am not using that popular spy-ware
product IE, and choose instead the "communist" Firefox, but ....

I have pointed this out to Lecico and asked them to mail me a list of
local stockists, but they seem to be concentrating on breaking their
web pages even more rather than helping me.

Peter

Hmm. Used to work with Mozilla 1.7.3. I printed off the list for a
couple of counties. Doesn't now. Incompetence? Email them and complain!!

I wanted a single lever bath mixer tap to feed an Ultra overflow
filler, the only people I found making a range of these were Chartley,
in Stone, Staffordshire. The web site is useless. It's back to emails
and the telephone.

Regards
Capitol