How to remove these shower screw fittings from the pipes?

[slocombe9]

I'm retiling my bathroom, and so everything in this photo minus the copper pipes must be removed.

Anyone familiar with these screw fittings that go over the pipes? They have filed down areas to get an adjustable spanner in there to turn them, but when I grip the copper pipe and the screw fitting, it just turns and turns without any sign of coming loose.

Do I just have to give up and saw off the pipe and get new ones? A major job as then I'll have to make a big hole in the wall to joint in new copper pipe.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You have to undo the chrome bit and remove the olive chances are you might need to renew the pipe through the wall depending on the loom of it where the olive was etc

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Steady the brass backplate and then turn the bush fitting. If you need x2 hands, then screw brass backplate back on and undo the bush fitting.

 

[slocombe9]

Steady the brass backplate and then turn the bush fitting. If you need x2 hands, then screw brass backplate back on and undo the bush fitting.

You have to undo the chrome bit and remove the olive chances are you might need to renew the pipe through the wall depending on the loom of it where the olive was etc

Thanks for the response. But I'll need some more details.

If I turn the chrome thread body with respect to the copper pipe, it does turn, but any attempt to move it forward or backward along the pipe goes nowhere.

I'm assuming there is an olive in there somewhere but it's not visible from the front. It just looks like the chrome body goes all the way onto the copper.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Remove the chrome piece entirely off the brass backplate you will see the olive

 

[slocombe9]

Remove the chrome piece entirely off the brass backplate you will see the olive

Thanks - that was the complete info I needed.

Got everything off. Sadly, so fused on was everything that in getting it all off one of the pipes got so scarred / out of shape that the push-fit plug-end I fitted to last while doing all the tiling work doesn't fully seal. So after all that it's likely I'll need to replace the pipe through the wall. Very little margin was made by the plumber that fitted this (new build house only 4 years ago).