Offset radiator tails?

[muggles]

Anyone come across any/know where to get some? Thinking something like those offset connections you get with some bar mixer showers, but in rad tail form. The reason is that the tiler on a job I'm working on has cut his tiles tight to the pipes but 10mm too far apart, so the towel rail I'm fitting doesn't line up with the pipes coming through the floor (I drilled big holes on first fix to allow a bit of post-installation movement...) Tiles are mega hard, can't be drilled, so no chance of chipping the edge away either.

Any ideas anyone? Failing this I'll have to find some straight-through valves that aren't quite straight-through, only issue there of course is that they won't match the other towel rails in the house, so if offset tails are available they'd be the best option.

Oh yeah, one final thing, no chance of getting anything on the pipework before the valves as, due to limited headroom, the towel rail had to be installed quite low to the floor and so there's only an inch of pipework before the valves.

 

[tamz]

PTS do cheap straight through valves that are around 5mm out of line.

2 x 45 deg chrome street elbows?

Other than that what about using one of those drills advertised on here then fitting a pipe collar around it or just take the hammer to the tiles

 

[REDSAW]

how about short length of pex?.

 

[muggles]

Ah, thought I'd get some somewhere Haven't yet found 45º threaded street elbows, if there's some out there they may do, bit messy though. As for drilling, the tiler attempted to drill one of the tiles using his pro wet diamond kit and he'd barely scratched the surface before the bit burned out. They're proper hard tiles

 

[muggles]

how about short length of pex?.

Err, no. Looks messy and probably wouldn't bend enough anyway, and there's no way of getting at the pipework to put it in. Thanks for the suggestion though

 

[Blackcatgas]

take up 2 of the tiles?

 

[muggles]

Might end up doing that, would rather not though as it's not just two tiles, the floor was laid before the walls so the wall tiles on top of the floor tiles would also need to come off. They're stuck to plasterboard so that'd probably get damaged in the process, and so it goes on...

 

[tamz]

This company will probably chrome plate end feed street elbows for you.

CHROME FIXTURES AND FITTINGS - UK Plumbing Fittings, Door Knobs, Hinges, Door Handles

Next time make sure you tell the tiler the pipe centres have to be exact. Even write it on the floor in marker. It is then his problem.

 

[royston]

can you cut the brackets back a bit, some of the cheaper towel rails you can get away with this as i once had the same problem.

 

[muggles]

It's out side-to-side, the pipes are too far apart rather than being too close to the wall