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So recently we had a shower with exposed pipes and I decided to sink the pipes into the wall, Ive completed that task only to find I havent sank them deep enough. Issue now is when I put the shower mixer on it sits off the wall by around 20mm or so.

Even worse is the shower has been tiled and Im not wanting to remove the tiles, is their a any suggestions around this?

Can you get a mixer that comes with pipe on it that would wall mount and fit into push fit fittings?
Any recommendation for a surface mounted mixer tap and I can bring the pipe out into the mixer?

The mixer I have comes with a 22mm to 15mm coupler and you put the isolating valve inside it and then mount it so its adding in extra length I dont want to add in, or can you get a 15mm compression connection on the mixer so it literally just attaches to the pipes?
Do you need to have isolating valves on them if they are in the wall? No access doesnt make sense to me.

TIA
 
Any pictures?
 
Any pictures?
So this is the adaptors on the end of the isolating valves, even if there’s a wall mounted version that doesn’t require adaptors etc and a 15mm pipe can go straight into it that would work. Need to get this operational soon, been procrastinating for a few weeks on this already.
 

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Sorry to say tiles need to come off as your not supposed to do it like that

15mm pipe out of the wall

https://www.NoLinkingToThis/p/swirl-bar-valve-wall-mount-fixing-kit-chrome/8669h
 
Sorry to say tiles need to come off as your not supposed to do it like that

15mm pipe out of the wall
The isolating valve and adaptor can be removed and 15mm copper pipe can be installed. So if I have 15mm pipe coming out of the wall I can use these adaptors in the link and then connect in a mixer shower valve to it?
 
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