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Hi all, I'm a bit stuck with the shower in our en suite and need advice on the best course of action. We moved into the house a couple of months ago and the en suite didn't run hot right from the start. We had a plumber look at it who said it was the thermostatic tap but he can't get access to it to change it. He hadn't even seen a shower like it and was struggling where to get the part from.
The shower has obviously been fitted in at the same time as the whole bathroom suite, the tiles are cut around it. It's plumbed in through the floor. The shower itself is part of the enclosure (which when I google, I can't see anything like it!). We saw some paperwork that said it was a Valencia shower, but don't know any more. The shower unit bit doesn't come off. It has allen key bits but when unscrewed, it still is stuck in place. And the tap bits won't come off. It's like it's all glued together!
Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas on repairing it?
Or if not, I wondered if the next easiest solution would be to buy a new shower and put it on the bathroom wall, within the enclosure. It would involve getting through the wall tiles to plumb it in though. How much mess would that be? Can it be done carefully without the need to retile the bathroom? and what is a very rough estimate of how much that would cost?
I really don't want to rip out the current enclosure as I guess we'd be looking at thousands to do that and fit a new suite.
The shower has obviously been fitted in at the same time as the whole bathroom suite, the tiles are cut around it. It's plumbed in through the floor. The shower itself is part of the enclosure (which when I google, I can't see anything like it!). We saw some paperwork that said it was a Valencia shower, but don't know any more. The shower unit bit doesn't come off. It has allen key bits but when unscrewed, it still is stuck in place. And the tap bits won't come off. It's like it's all glued together!
Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas on repairing it?
Or if not, I wondered if the next easiest solution would be to buy a new shower and put it on the bathroom wall, within the enclosure. It would involve getting through the wall tiles to plumb it in though. How much mess would that be? Can it be done carefully without the need to retile the bathroom? and what is a very rough estimate of how much that would cost?
I really don't want to rip out the current enclosure as I guess we'd be looking at thousands to do that and fit a new suite.