How to install a bar shower mixer valve using a shower plate (1st & 2nd fix)
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2020
- #shower #valve #showerplate
In this plumbing tutorial I show you how to install a bar shower mixer valve using a product called 'shower plate' or shower pl8. I take you though all the steps of 1st and 2fix of exposed bar shower valve installation.
My website: www.urbanplumbers.co.uk - Навчання та стиль
Looks so easy to fit mixer shower and easy to maintenance for future well done Simon 👍🏼🙂
Thanks !
great video I have just ordered a PL8 Thanks for the information
Glad I could help
Perfect Video for my needs ... Thank you ... whoever you are!
Awesome video, I just bought one of those showers with offset fitting and could not work out how to get solid pipework to attach to. Just ordered that shower plate. Thanks for filming, Andy
With offsets you use single wall plates
Nice video tanx for the upload👍
I am glad you like it :)
Love it thank you so much
You are so welcome
Brilliant video! I have the plate and the mixer and have been stressing how to fit it, any other information Iv'e found is dire, even the instructions with the plate are not that clear. One thing only, if you have time, shoot it again but with your hands out of the way! :)
Hot on the left cold on the right.
Coś czuje ze to zdanie uchroni mnie przed sporym rozczarowaniem :)
Jestem w trakcie remontu łazienki i oglądam z zaciekawieniem :)
Powodzenia !
hot on the left, cold on the right, shit down the middle
Cool. Exposed valves are not common in the U.S, but Grohe distributes a couple models of theirs in the U.S. that look really nice. This is a way nicer assembly than the hidden ones that are common here, especially with the plate.
Great video and really helpful, thanks. I’m embarking on a bathroom refit and planning to use the Marflow Shower PL8 you used here. One question though, a lot of comments I see online suggest that the shower mixer bar valve is only being supported by the copper pipes, and not by the PL8. As a result I’m planning to also use some fixing brackets that screw into the front face of the wall (e.g. Bristan Wall Mount 10 Fixing Kit) to support the shower bar valve. Any concerns with using both? I plan to recess the PL8 further back than you have (so the screws from the wall brackets on the outside won’t hit the PL8), and I will also put another wood noggin horizontally for the wall brackets to screw into)
No need for any additional support
Great video thanks. The video doesn't show how you connect the vertical pipe to the back the shower plate. Can you say how you do this please?
Good video. Can you explain when running hot and cold feed, for the best pressure from the boiler, does it just tee into the same feed as basin taps?
it does not matter where it tees in really
Hi. Can you please guide me how to install shower? I have bath but no shower and I need both now on plaster board. Thanks
Can you link the shower please and shower you installed if possible, thanks
Thanks for this. If only those shower fixing plates were available in North America. Thermostatic mixers are still fairly uncommon, and all we have available is the offset style mounts.
Are you sure that are not in the US yet?
@@UrbanPlumbers I'm only searching online, but I can't find anything in the US or Canada like this. Marflow products don't seem to be available here.
Are we ok to just do a 90 bend at the back of the plate rather than a soldered joint? On most of these tutorial vids seems to be a soldered elbow but to a newbie like me thats just another joint to fail 😅
What are the advantages and disadvantages of bending the pipe rather than using joints? I assume it's just quicker to solder rather than bend? I'm considering bending so that there are no joints hidden behind the tiles that could potentially leak.
Did you figure it out same question I've got 😂
No, I didn't. I just soldered the joints. I was considering buying a cheap spring bender and giving it a go. Maybe next time. @@KTMSparky
Great vid
My only concern using this fitting would be doing your second fix , if your compression fitting that you put on the copper pipe was weaping the water could leak undetected down behind the tile
Until months , years later when tiles fall offf or water eventually shows up in the room below
Use liquid ptfe if you are worried
Just one more comment, that distance you cut the pipe at is surely a fixed distance whatever the wall covering is, tile or board. So it must always be 30mm? Right?
👌🤙Happy Day's
thanks
Great tutorial thank you. I replaced a similar shower mixer recently. I am experiencing a leak on the hot water side - any idea how to fix this or what would cause the leak.
Those offset fixings are hell, whoever invented them must enjoy out of level shower bars and DIYers tears! Fixing plates all the way
He skipped the part where he put the bar mixer together to offer it up to the pipes to measure the distance. But then just puts the PL8 fixings to the tile and measures where to cut that way. Is that the better way?
How do you know those copper fittings don’t leak.
What copper fittings? End feed solder? I test them before tiling.
Hi. Why do you cut the Pipe 3mm shorter than the fitting.?
Otherwise the covers wouldn’t fit. This will be different for different showers
@@UrbanPlumbers thanks. I finished it. This video was exactly what I needed. 👍
Can you use microbore pipes instead of copper?
microbore for shower? No a good idea
If you mean plastic like speedfit I use it all the time. Only leaks I’ve had are with copper fittings.
Have a link for the plate? Can't seem to find it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Marflow-Shower-PL8-Fixing-Guarantee/dp/B009IH5KVA/ref=asc_df_B009IH5KVA/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=255628420260&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2390978666095877368&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1002316&hvtargid=pla-485845953117&psc=1
Whenever i try to change the temperature its either ice cold or boiling hot please help
Faulty thermostat
How do you solder the two elbows behind the plate?
Carefully
@@UrbanPlumbers 😂
How do you leak check your soldered connections when its all tiled over?
Pressure test before tiling