Ken_in_Mass
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I'm replacing my fiberglass shower. I figured I'd replace the 20+ year old valve with a new system with a diverter and hand held unit. When I took the old shower out, I found some odd looking plumbing.
I took a couple of pictures to help explain. Basically there are two lines running up through the wall. The work that is there taps into the two lines high up and brings them back down to the shower valve. The closeup picture shows that this places the valve behind the supply lines. Right now the line to the shower just angles up until its a reasonable distance from the back of the wall.
The problem is that the diverter has an inlet that is 1 1/4" from the back wall. Because the valve is pushed back behind the supply lines the clearance is only about 3/4" or less.
It seems to me I have two options. The first would be to leave the valve sitting where it is, and bend the shower line in a shallow S that would bring it forward from the back wall and allow the diverter valve to be connected.
The other option would be to move the valve a little to the left and just connect it to the two supply lines with T connections right at the valve. I don't understand why it wasn't done that way in the first place.
So the questions are which of those two options are better, or is there other ways to handle this. The new valve going in is the exact same body as this one.
I hope I explained myself well enough... I still need to go and figure out if the valve being set back like this will work with the new shower.
Thanks for any advice... including 'This is beyond a DIYer, go get a plumber.'
I took a couple of pictures to help explain. Basically there are two lines running up through the wall. The work that is there taps into the two lines high up and brings them back down to the shower valve. The closeup picture shows that this places the valve behind the supply lines. Right now the line to the shower just angles up until its a reasonable distance from the back of the wall.
The problem is that the diverter has an inlet that is 1 1/4" from the back wall. Because the valve is pushed back behind the supply lines the clearance is only about 3/4" or less.
It seems to me I have two options. The first would be to leave the valve sitting where it is, and bend the shower line in a shallow S that would bring it forward from the back wall and allow the diverter valve to be connected.
The other option would be to move the valve a little to the left and just connect it to the two supply lines with T connections right at the valve. I don't understand why it wasn't done that way in the first place.
So the questions are which of those two options are better, or is there other ways to handle this. The new valve going in is the exact same body as this one.
I hope I explained myself well enough... I still need to go and figure out if the valve being set back like this will work with the new shower.
Thanks for any advice... including 'This is beyond a DIYer, go get a plumber.'