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[Anonymous]

Yes me again,
i posted a few questions about a black bath some weeks ago (thanks for the advice) - and yes i'm still sorting it out.

The sink is all sorted - i am having the taps and legs etc re-chromed at the mo.

However, it is proving near impossible to refurbish the bath taps (without re-mortgaging the house) (i am missing the actual valves / tap bit) - all i have is the hexagonal cover and the star shaped bits. So i have decided to not use the individually wall mounted bath and shower taps and get a mixer tap that does both the shower and bath in one. But i am finding it hard to get a mixer tap in the same style as the sink ones. All of the ones i have found aren't hexagonal.

The nearest i can find are some that Fired Earth are stocking - but i cant afford £600+ just for a bath filler - when i then need to get a shower aswell.

Has anyone spotted any mixer taps in the same syle as the sink ones??

Also - i don't suppose anyone's seen a black toilet for sale lately?? I haven't.

Thanks. j



http://www.salvo.co.uk/forsale.html?key=black+cast+iron+bath

 

[Anonymous]

Taste is subjective, no offence but personally 'uugh uurgh'
good luck though I fear most would have been put to the skip long ago by owners without your sensibility. I do however admire your desire to save period detail.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you checked to see if the hexagonal covers you have are a common thread? Maybe there are other taps that they can be interchanged with?

Are they purely decorative? If so you could probably make a simple adaptor to fit them to any smaller tap body...

G.

 

[Anonymous]

Unless you're prepared to have a jobbing engineer make some sort of adaptors for you, I think your best bet is simply to be patient and to keep trawling your local architectural reclamation yards. Sooner or later you should find something that matches pretty well.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi G.
Yes i've taken them to a couple of engineering places and plumbers yards etc, and everything is weird sizes - they all say that it would be technically possible to adapt...but when i ask them if they can do it they just look at their feet and point at the exit. Either that or they just burst out into uncontrollable laughter...then i leave crying.
J

 

[Anonymous]

So does that "yes" mean they ARE purely decorative?

If you can find some taps that they will clear then it's going to be easy to make an adaptor out of a bit of nylon. There is no need to cut the threads, just turn the nylon close to size and force them together...

Alternatively use the normal covers supplied with the taps and modify them to fit inside the original covers, then just fill the gap with epoxy.

G.