Bath tap with shower hose retainer, drips?

Megastar

I have a new bath fitted and it hasn't been tiled in yet. Before it's fitted permanently I need to know the following:

How should a plumber/builder prepare the floor under the bath when fitting one of these taps? A certain amount of water is definitely going to flow down through the shower retainer in normal use.

In my case, I'm pretty sure that any drips are landing onto a pile of rubble lying on the plaster of the ceiling below.

Can anyone tell me the right way to line under the bath. So far, three plumbers I've had in have never fitted this kind of tap system before.

Help!


http://www.ultra-group.co.uk/productdetails-with-Premier.asp?brand=Hudson%20Reed&types=1&rangeid=27&productid=1170


This is the floor under the tap as it was before the bath was fitted.

Joey the lips

To answer your questions. Each of the componet parts are sealed onto the bath like any set of bath taps. They come with washers but most plumbers use silicone as well. If you look at the fitting instructions on the link it shows you

As for the hose, the bit your worried about. This is usually self contained within a sleeve. This stops the water getting out the bottom.

However this is not your big issue.


These are usually high pressure taps and the shower head will not work on a gravity fed system.

Most baths come drilled for 2 standard holes. This will have to have another 2 drilled.

Is your bathroom pumped. I know it says 0.2bar but i would never fit one of these without a pump

Megastar

Joey the lips wrote: »

To answer your questions. Each of the componet parts are sealed onto the bath like any set of bath taps. They come with washers but most plumbers use silicone as well. If you look at the fitting instructions on the link it shows you

As for the hose, the bit your worried about. This is usually self contained within a sleeve. This stops the water getting out the bottom.

Thanks for that. If it's in a sleeve that would be a huge relief. I'll check that out.

However this is not your big issue.

These are usually high pressure taps and the shower head will not work on a gravity fed system.

Most baths come drilled for 2 standard holes. This will have to have another 2 drilled.

Is your bathroom pumped. I know it says 0.2bar but i would never fit one of these without a pump

It has already been installed and it's not great. My bathroom is not pumped. Neither the salesman in the shop nor the plumber mentioned the high pressure issue to me :mad:

I'm getting the attic storage tanks raised by 4'. I don't know how much difference that will make to the pressure.

The four holes were drilled in the bath and look fine.

I will have an Aqualisa Aquastream shower so the bath shower is just for rinsing really. It still needs adequate pressure to stop the shower dribbling when the taps are in use.

I'm going to get the bath lifted and get all this checked out. The taps are on back to front anyway, with the screw and the tap/shower switch to the front. Are there similar taps that are suitable for low pressure and come with a sleeve for the shower pipe?

Thanks for the help.

Joey the lips

Megastar wrote: »

Thanks for that. If it's in a sleeve that would be a huge relief. I'll check that out.

It has already been installed and it's not great. My bathroom is not pumped. Neither the salesman in the shop nor the plumber mentioned the high pressure issue to me :mad:

I'm getting the attic storage tanks raised by 4'. I don't know how much difference that will make to the pressure.

The four holes were drilled in the bath and look fine.

I will have an Aqualisa Aquastream shower so the bath shower is just for rinsing really. It still needs adequate pressure to stop the shower dribbling when the taps are in use.

I'm going to get the bath lifted and get all this checked out. The taps are on back to front anyway, with the screw and the tap/shower switch to the front. Are there similar taps that are suitable for low pressure and come with a sleeve for the shower pipe?

Thanks for the help.

No.

Generally all 4 tap hole bsm;s are high pressure. However it will have a sleeve or its fitted wrong.

Sorry to be the bad news bearer.