Help me with my leaking shower :(

dickibobboy

We had an old mixer shower that was probably 20 years old and it finally gave up on us with a thread breaking down so it wouldn't turn off.

After looking around in shops / internet and ebay i came up with what i thought was a solution to get a new one in place with the current set up that is there already.

The pipes are running down from the ceiling unlike most new places where they come out the wall and because of this i needed to find some wall bracket / adapters for a new shower unit to go onto which i did.

Here is a picture of how it is at the minute, ignore the compression join on the shower head pipe, thats temp until i get a new one with the ends already on.

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/7066/showerv.jpg


It all connects up and the shower comes on etc.. however the connection between the bracket and the copper coupler is leaking water. Its a constant drip and thats from both of them.

I can't think how i would tighten it up any further as they are quite tight as it is and any futher movement will make it so they are off level and simply won't connect to the shower unit at all.

I'm stuck for ideas and its a pain turning the valves on and off up at the ceiling every time i need a shower.

Any ideas?

Thanks

lagi

Trying to understand from the picture how these would even do up. I would guess the hot and cold feeds are 15mm. But not sure what the coupling connects too fitting wise.

Hopefully it can support itself.

I would turn off valves to supply. Cut both pipes about 200mms higher approx with pipe cutter. Get a pair of push fit flexible pipes. Push fit the valves on to the hot and cold and hopefully if connection to pipe is 1/2 inch screw size then something like this at 300mm.

pushfit

Something along them lines, i don't think the coupler can be coupled with what you want.
They even do some with isolation valves so you could even shut it off at room level should you ever need to.

keystone

dickibobboy wrote: »

.. however the connection between the bracket and the copper coupler is leaking water. Its a constant drip and thats from both of them.

Half inch female iron no workie with 15mm thread on shower elbow. Simples.

Cheers

keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

Yuk to OPs install and lagi's suggestion on looks.

Yup think I'll pass up buying lagi's book of bodgery as well.

................... where the inlets on the shower valve are simply twisted round to accept the pipes coming down the wall.

IIRC thats what he was told to do on the other thread.

Cheers

saveafewbob

Hi Dickibobboy,
I saw on another of your threads that your old shower was a deltaflow and was wondering if you still have it somewhere as I have a deltaflow and the on/off dial has threaded meaning I can't turn it on or off as the dial just spins round. I've tried to get hold of a replacement brass screw and on/off dial but no luck.

Was wondering if you still have those bits on your old unit?

Here's hoping.