Fixing shower head back to wall

brilliantstuff

We have the shower shown in the attached pic and it’s come away from the wall at the top. We have no idea how to fix it back - we used silicone glue which worked for a while but then didn’t, and then drilled a tiny hole into the bottom of the tube part (as you can see) before realising the round ‘hole’ on the outer rim bit wasn’t actually a hole. Is there some kind of fixing we’re missing? Not that keen on getting someone out for such a small job. Thanks! 

nofoollikeold

Looks like an Allen head grub screw on the underside of the wall bracket.  Try slackening that off with the appropriate Allen key, push the "tube" back into the wall fitting, and do the Allen grub screw up tight.  If the "tube" is a sloppy fit, try cleaning off the lime scale, then wrapping it tight with some plastic insulating tape until it is a snug (not tight) fit, then do the grub screw up.  
As a last resort, clean the "tube" up and glue it in place with Araldite.  Use regular (slow set) Araldite, and find a way of holding the tube in place for 24 hours until it cures.  

brilliantstuff

Ah I see! That makes a lot of sense, thank you! We’ll give that all a go and hopefully it’ll do the job. 

Jeepers_Creepers

As nflo says.

It does look as tho' the pipe has become crushed - perhaps even cracked? - where the grub screw acts on it, in which case the epoxy-adhesive route might be required.

The alternative would require it taking down to insert a support sleeve inside that tube - something like that. Surely not worth the hassle?

Le_Kirk

It looks like the tube has split (unless that  us what you mean by drilling a tiny hole) where the "grub" screw should clamp on it and it has been allowed to pull out of the socket.  You could try (if the other fixes don't work) removing the socket and turning it through 180 degrees so that the grub screw clamps on a clean part of the tube.

Jeepers_Creepers

Le_Kirk said:

It looks like the tube has split (unless that  us what you mean by drilling a tiny hole) where the "grub" screw should clamp on it and it has been allowed to pull out of the socket.  You could try (if the other fixes don't work) removing the socket and turning it through 180 degrees so that the grub screw clamps on a clean part of the tube.

Oooh, that's clever