New Bathroom; shower advice please

Acanthe

After too many years we're finally getting our small bathroom renovated. We're using the same crew who did our kitchen earlier this year and as with then, I'm sourcing the visible things i.e. basin, toilet, bath, tiles, flooring etc. and they're dealing with all the other stuff. This worked really well when they did the kitchen, but I'm getting more confused with the bathroom, particularly the shower.

The shower is over the bath but we're ditching an ancient electric one for a modern thermostatic one. We'd like two outlets - one overhead and a hand shower on a riser rail. We'd like the shower to have separate controls to the bath.

What I don't know is how much I can mix and match to get what I want. I really like a hand shower from the Swadling Engineer range and the valve controls for it as well as the bath spout but the 'deluge' head is just too big to go over a bath. Can I use a different make of showerhead that will still work with the Swadling controls? Are there some things where you have to keep all to the same brand? Mind you, price might well end up ensuring I use another brand altogether!

Obviously, before I buy anything, my plumber will be looking at my list to check everything will work together but that's a bit away yet.

Apologies for any incoherence - I've learned a lot about bathrooms from reading this forum but I've still got a long way to go!

Doozergirl

Are these concealed or exposed valves?

Acanthe

They'll be concealed.

Doozergirl

Okay, so you can use a separate rainfall arm and shower head, but I'd definitely advise that those two match at least.

There will just be ordinary copper pipe behind the wall going from the valve up to the rainfall bit so you can choose what brands you want, really.

Acanthe

So the rainfall arm and head should match but they don't necessarily have to match the head and riser rail? Or the two shower heads should be the same brand? Sorry - it's all new to me. I didn't realise taps and showers got so complicated:eek:

Poppy_92

We've just had our bathroom redone. We have a L shaped shower bath. We used the following:

For the shower controls:

https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/cruze-round-thermostatic-bar-shower-valve-riser-kit-chrome?searchText=cruze

For the bath controls:

https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/cruze-modern-tap-package-bath-basin-tap (the single one was for our sink)