shower mixer mounting question help??

[tengals]

just a quick question, picked up our new shower flick mixer today, noticed that there is no mounting plate or holes on the brass junction/boss section. how are these held in place internally within the wall?

or are they just held by the copper piping? i wouldnt have thought....

there is a top chrome capping plate with a rubber seal to go over the boss ontop of the tiles......

curious....does anyone know?

regards,

Grant

[bricks]

Your plumber shouldn't have a problem putting it in.

[tengals]

so this is the normal then? it's just held in by the pipes?

plumber is weeks off, havent even go the walls down yet? curious as to how they mount as, I am going to create the mounting area position myself.....

regards,

[bricks]

Normally they have some screw mounting holes in the body somewhere but they dont always sit flush with the back,

If not you can use copper saddles around the body if various locations to secure the mixers. big flat backing plate normally 2x ply thick 30-40mm.

[tengals]

thanks, so a flat backing mount plate out of timber will do? and the plumber will STRAP the mixer down with copper straps?

[arms]

usually they are attached to timber noggin with copper strips ,most mixers have one outlet on the top and 2 inlets on the bottom notch out the noggin to match the back of the tap body and fit the body into the noggin ,it doesnt hurt to put some silicone under the body for further firmness

[tricky4000]

Hi Tengals,

I had a similar problem to you when I did my renovation. I installed some Italian tapware (Gessi from Abey) in my place which cost a bomb and then was a complete bitch to install. Even my experienced plumber looked at the flip mixer housing and said, "These are going to be a c*&t to fit in. Bloody spaghetti twirlers!" were his exact words...Being one himself he didn't see the irony...hehehe Anyway.
He nailed in a peice of hardwood between the studs, mounted it to that and chocked them up with some masonite packers. He then clamped them with copper saddles. It was a pain, I helped him fit them. Ideally they would have a flat back. Would have made the job 100 times easier if they did. The other problem with this is you have to level them off with a square and it is not easy. Once you fit the spouts on, they have to be dead on...or they look crap.
Dan.

[tengals]

thanks so much for the replies guys

regards,

[Maverick2000]

This is how the plumber hooked up my mixer, I did all the fixings into the wall and cutouts.

He used his oxy gear to connect the fittings the copper pipe and then prebent them and then fixed them to the body in the correct order. The connections to the other pipe is then done at a distance from the body to protect the fitting.

Some people may fit these with compression fittings but I would never use them in any place that I own especially not with a mixer and their lack of proper mounting hardware.

In case your wondering why it has the extra connection, this has a diverter built in, I have a rain type full flow shower head at ceiling height and a standard adjustable/removable unit below and you can switch between them.

As for the copious amounts of silicone, I hate pipe noise and do all the fixing of copper pipe in my house to try and ensure I don't have any noise which is difficult when you have high water pressure, all flickmixer style taps and a wife that doesn't understand what "turn the tapes off slow" means.

Hope this helps out, I assume that your plumber will fix in the same manner (if not I would get another one) so you will be able to work out where to put everything before he arrives.

[tengals]

thanks guys, all in now

regards,

[wonderplumb]

Your plumber shouldn't have a problem putting it in.

so this is the normal then? it's just held in by the pipes?

plumber is weeks off, havent even go the walls down yet? curious as to how they mount as, I am going to create the mounting area position myself.....

regards,

Sly arent they Bricks!