[Yes I'm moving house so likely to be a pain here for a bit :)]

New house has a push button Triton 'Electronic' Electric shower that is recessed and sunk in the tiles off to one side. As the house has a new Worcester Bosch Combi that can manage 18L flow a minute having a dribbly electric shower is nonsense. However I dont want to rip all the tiles off to sink and fit a thermostatic mixer valve, lazy bugger that I am!

Anyone know if there any solutions out there with some nice chrome pipes sneaking up from where the bath taps are, and into a surface mount mixer valve? Or maybe I can run something down from the loft...? Not seen anything out there so far :(

Cheers

D

there are loads of surface mounted mixer valves (incl thermostatic ones). take a look at www.gummers.co.uk - am pretty sure they sell something that will suit, but there are loads of other sites out there for this sort of fitting. alternatively, go into your local travis perkins or plumbing merchants and ask what they have. you can buy chrome plated 15mm copper as well. you need to have a think about how you're going to route the pipework up from under the bath or from above though - you you go up through a stud wall at the end of the bath? if so, you could probably bring the pipes up to the right position to pop through the tiles at the right point to fit straight into the surface mounted valve (ie no surface-mounted pipework)

Have a look at the Aqualisa Quartz shower, which has a mixed supply of water which drops down through the center of the ceiling mounted riser rail so that no tiles are disturbed and no pipes are visable, also Mira have just released the Magma ???? which is virtually the same. There are pumped thermostatic versions and also versions suitable for your boiler.

Mog

saw those at the bathroom and kitchen expo in excel last month i think. looked very neat

Thanks for the advice chaps - That Mira Magna looks very neat and works with a modulating Combi so they wont 'fight' each other I guess. The mixer block can go near the combi in the loft and then only one pipe to run. Nice!

D

Recently fitted two Mira Excel in my house. Very pleased with the result.

Chip

One for each hand Chip? Posh you are ;)

One for each hand Chip? Posh you are ;)
Oh yes old chap, we've just recently been having some renovation work carried out on the West wing of the property.

Chip