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Lidl Thermostatic Shower £14.99

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  • So how are you supposed to fix this quite heavy Thermostatic Shower unit to the wall….how have you guys done it, as there is no fixing bracket?
  • quoia
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    uncle_buck wrote:
    So how are you supposed to fix this quite heavy Thermostatic Shower unit to the wall….how have you guys done it, as there is no fixing bracket?


    By using a pair of these, or something similar, buried in the wall (if it's solid brick/breeze etc)

    http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=100122&ts=85031&id=17416

    Possible, even probable, to use something a bit different if mounting on/in a stud partition (ie Plasterboard) wall

    I can't be absolutely certain since although my bathroom has got a thermostatic mixer similar to this, and I fitted it, it is NOT the LIDL one.
    Possible it comes with certain adapters for different situations.
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  • Flimber
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    Anyone know of Yorkshire branches with stock of these ?
  • Godspeed
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    Spikey wrote:
    Sorry for the stupid Question... if you have a tub then the holes will need blocking and the pipes taking into the wall and the unit then being fixed?:confused:

    Is it worth it?

    Spikey


    If your after a fitting on the wall for the shower and the bath combined you'd be better off with one of these, although there is no automatic thermostatic control :(

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    HERE
  • quoia wrote:
    I think you missed my point ...

    You said "the bathroom cold water supply comes from the cold water tank in the attic. This is done because it's that much closer"

    Can hardly be closer to take a pipe from a bath tap to a tank that is above the height of the bath, that is fed by a pipe that has mains pressure water in it.

    However back to a previous point, presuming from your name , any chance you live in Wales?
    Perhaps not in one of the valleys but quite a few feet above sea level ?
    Low pressure water area ?
    Bit like having a prostrate problem. Sink cold tap more of a dribble than a fire hose?

    As some sort of indication, how far can you squirt water out the end of a hose pipe ? Our mains pressure means it's about 20 metres or more (70feet approx)
    I live in Surrey, but lived in Swansea before that, also in Salisbury, and Cardiff. And everyplace had the bath & toilet fed from the header tank, with the exception of a flat I lived in that had no header tank.

    Not worth arguing over, some houses are fed from the mains, and some obviously aren't
  • quoia wrote:
    ....Possible it comes with certain adapters for different situations....
    No it comes with nothing to fix it to the wall.

    Using the fixings you mentioned from screwfix would necessitate measurements of the type that only a NASA scientist would comprehend in order to get the shower to sit securely & perfectly on the wall :rotfl:
    ….why there isn’t some sort of fixing bracket with this unit is beyond me :confused:

    The wall in my bathroom where the shower will go also already has a unit in place…it’s a Mira, this has fixings that hold it to the wall.
    As the bathroom suit will be getting replaced in a few months I thought it a good time to replace the shower unit, so hence the lidl purchase.

    The wall the shower is on is a plasterboard wall of a sandwich type construction with hard cardboard ribs that run through it to give it strength. The total wall thickness is approx 2 ½ inches face to face….you may not of ever seen this type of wall before & neither had I ..but this is used in most newly built houses.
    I’m racking my brain trying to think of a way to mount this shower to the wall without demolishing the wall.
  • chrisw
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    This appears to be the same mixer shower at Screwfix for £99.

    They also do a fixing kit for fixing the shower to a cavity wall, although it's £25 - here .
  • quoia
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    uncle_buck wrote:
    ….why there isn’t some sort of fixing bracket with this unit is beyond me :confused:

    Because it is only £14.99 ?

    The one I got off eBay a few months ago cost me £35 + P&P

    Exactly the same model (very latest) was on sale "in a sale" for £99 at Homebase

    Their normal price was £179

    RRP for the unit was £229
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  • Basically the worlds gone Mad with a two tier pricing structure on taps and I suspect they all come out of the same chinese factory ..

    Go to the B&Q's/ Home bases /Focus/Wickes and you pay £100 - £200 for taps/mixer shower etc

    Go onto Ebay and there are loads for sale for around £25.. I actually went to look at the taps sold by one Ebay vendor and couldn't tell the difference from the ones in the shops...talk about a mark up/rip off merchants on the high st

    One obvious attraction of the Lidl ones is you get a 5 year guarantee..IMHO you can't go wrong if the item is what you are after.
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  • talkshop
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    uncle_buck wrote:
    The total wall thickness is approx 2 ½ inches face to face….you may not of ever seen this type of wall before & neither had I ..but this is used in most newly built houses.

    I have this type of wall and my house is 35 years old.

    Nothing new about this.

    The houses they build today are made out of paper mache, and fall apart if you dare breathe.
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