Fixing a overhead shower

[Bear]

Hi guy's

Here's the job........ I am looking to install an overhead shower arm fitted through the ceiling ... most arms only have about 20 mm thread to connect to .... but I want to suspend the arm using a timber batten ..... which means elongating the fitting so as to take a nut to hang on...... any ideas on which fittings to use this will be most welcolm............

 

[Chalked]

Backplate elbow screwed to the batten, then fit the tube into that.

 

[Bear]

Backplate elbow screwed to the batten, then fit the tube into that.

Hi chees for that... buy wont the weight ( 1.7kg ) be on the olives ?

 

[tolly]

your right, Alot of those overhead shower arms should have longer threads, but they don't. By the time you've gone through the PB and then a bit of ply you've fitted above to support it theres barely any thread left, one way to do it is to drill your hole in the ply so the threaded part is a really snug fit, throw the 1/2" backnut away or save it for when you get a tap with a knackered nylon backnut, then use a 15mm female iron which doubles as your backnut and a connecter to get onto your pipework.

 

[tolly]

And the picture posted above was of a end feed back plate elbow so there wouldn't be any olives. even if there was, if it was screwed into timber then the weight would be on that.