- [James] Plumberparts.co.uk.
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Hello, and welcome to today's plumberparts.co.uk video.
My name's James, and today, we're gonna be
showing you how to instal a rigid riser
rail shower valve, and it's gonna be absolutely amazing,
so I hope you enjoy.
Holla, and welcome to today's plumberparts.co.uk video!
Today we're gonna be doing a video showing you
how to change over an old Colonial shower valve,
so, yeah, we're gonna change this old shower valve
over in there, which I don't actually think there's
anything wrong with it, I mean, what could
be wrong with, uh, with that?
And, uh, and that? (chuckles)
Other than that, it's in full working condition.
We've turned the water off already,
we've also isolated the power to the shower pump,
'cause this one's actually fed by a shower pump,
and I'm just gonna show you how to take the old one off,
measure up and put the new one on, and it's gonna be
absolutely amazing, oh, totally.
So yeah, I hope you enjoy the video,
and if you have any questions or comments,
we'll talk about that later, yeah?
We have questions or comments at the end of the video,
not at the start, so let's go, hold tight!
Right, so the first thing I'm gonna do is,
because we've got this upright here, and we're
gonna be changing this upright, just slacken off
the nut that's on the upstand.
There we go, so, just let all that come out a little bit.
Oh, bloody hell.
Problem with these panheads is, loads of water
always comes out, and you always get wet doin' it.
Let's hope I don't get the camera wet,
hey, people, that would be a catastrophe!
All right, so now we've got this slackened off,
this should be able to lift up a little bit.
Just let that down like so.
That'll expose the two slotted screws we need to get at.
Take them off, and then take this out of the way.
Before you slacken off the two nuts on the side,
usually you're gonna find a grub screw on this
base plate here, it's either gonna be an allen key,
like we've got, or a small slotted screwdriver,
so undo that, and that'll release the main
valve body from the base plate on the wall.
Right, so now on each side you've got a little
nut just here, and what we're gonna do is we're
gonna slack each one of these nuts off, like so.
Just do both sides, just slacken it off
'til it starts to push a little bit on the valve,
you see what it's doin' there, sort of movin'
the valve out a little bit.
Right, as soon as it's got to that point...
Go around to the other nut, and undo that.
So now that we've released that important grub screw
and these two, we should be able to just pull
the valve body off the pipes and off the wall.
There we go, right, there's the old one off.
Right, you'll always find a couple of screws
on the base plate, so you wanna take them off.
Give that a little undo.
Lovely.
Now, at this point, you could use these old nuts
and these old wall plates, but they look minging,
so what we're gonna have to do is get these olives off,
now, there's a slight problem, is that these go
to push fit fittings, so they twist, okay,
so usually I'd actually just wring the olive off
normally, if I could, but we're not gonna
be able to do that here, I don't think,
so what I'm gonna have to do is push back this nut,
and then very carefully, using a junior hacksaw,
I'm just gonna cut across this olive and then pop it off.
There we go, that's come loose now.
So I should be able to get a slotted screwdriver in there.
And just prize that apart.
You see, there's minimal damage to the pipe there.
And then just prize this off as well.
Do that to the other side, and then,
'cause I've got quite a lot of length of pipe here,
and it doesn't take the risk too much of maybe
a cut gettin' in the way, I'm just gonna get
some pipe slicers on here and just cut these
back a bit so we got a new bit of pipe to go on.
As you can see, the last douchebag who was here
used loads of clear silicone, so I'm just gonna
spend a few minutes cleanin' that all up before
I get onto the next bit, and I suggest,
if you're removin' an old shower valve,
get yourself a bit of a scrubbing brush and just
clean up behind those tiles, 'cause it will
make the job look miles better when it's all finished,
so I'm just gonna do that and yeah, see thee in a sec.
(singing)
Right, now we're gonna measure up the centres
for our new bracket, 'cause we've gotta pop
a new bracket on here.
15 divided by 2 is 7.5.
So there's our centre mark there.
So once we've got our centre mark here,
we then go over the centre of the two pipes
just here, like that, and then we'll get that
lined up and measured, and then drill your
holes and put your plugs in.
Should be able to just drill these normally,
but you never know. (drill whirring)
Right, so once you've got your holes drilled,
put your plugs in, and then, I usually just
put a little blob of silicone in
each one of these, like that.
And then use your sexy Makita impact driver
to run 'em in and smash the tiles to bits.
Which is not what we're gonna do, it's a joke.
(drill whirring)
While I'm at it, I'm just gonna pop a little bit
on these old holes as well.
We're nearly ready to put our new valve on,
but I just suggest you get some silicone,
try and get it actually down the gap between
the pipe and the wall, just nice and lightly,
and then you can get your plate and just
push that lightly over there, like that.
Ready for in a second.
Do the same on the other side.
Right, whilst they're setting a little bit,
I recommend you take off the two nuts and
olives off your shower valve, then I would actually
put on your washers and actually build these
up properly, ready for use.
So pop your washer in there, and just do it up
nice and lightly, not too tight.
Do the same on the other side, pop your washer
just in here, like so.
And then pop that onto your shower valve,
do it up nice and lightly, it doesn't need to be too tight.
So now we're nearly ready, now, take note,
the bottom of the shower valve, on this one,
you've got your three mil grub screw,
just like on the other one.
Just slacken that off, just out of the way, like so.
Now, put your nut and your olive on each one of the pipes.
Remember, we've got a lot of flex on the back
of these pipes, you might not have this.
And once you've got those both on,
line up each one of your pipes, like so,
and just loosely do up your nuts and your olives on there.
So once you've got both pipes in and just
slightly nipped up, push the top on first.
Then slot onto your bracket.
Just like so, now, then, very quickly,
push the shower valve back to the wall where
you want it to be, and then lightly do your
grub screw up so it can't come off the wall.
And then, being careful not to damage the fitting itself,
just lightly do up your 15 mil nuts on both sides.
So now, make sure these two are tight,
these two are tight, and make sure your grub screw
is tight before going onto the next stage.
Right, so now we've got that in, and it's beautiful.
We're gonna pop a nut and our olive that we've
got here onto the bottom of our shower upstand.
Now, have a quick look at this, 'cause these often
need cutting down, so I'm just gonna have to cut
this down, just about there, just mark that with my thumb.
Cut that to length.
Pop that in like so.
Now, what you can do here is, I'm gonna bring down
our clip and actually use the old holes on there.
Which, if you don't mind me sayin', is very shrewd.
Fortunately, our plate here lines up with the old holes.
Which means they should go in nicely,
and this should screw up really rather well.
So that's now screwed in firmly.
Now, what we've gotta do, we've got the valve in,
and we've got the upstand in, is just basically
finish off by putting the head on.
The heads can come in various different shapes and sizes.
This one here has a small insert on it
that goes, actually screws in directly to the
head like that, and then it seals on this
rubber O-ring on here, so you just tighten it up
like that, give that a tighten, that's ready.
It's also got the ability for you, if you like,
to move it about, which is silly.
Then, all you need to do is screw in your head,
like so, onto the thread here, then once you've
built it up, you can decide what length out of the
wall you want it to be at, now, I think,
personally, it should probably come back about,
probably about this far, so I'm just gonna cut the pipe.
Now, once we've cut it to the length we want,
pop it into the fitting, like so.
And then, grab your adjustables, and just tighten this up,
making sure this is still pointed nicely downwards.
Lovely, right, now, the next thing to do
is make sure that it's pointing at right angles
out of the wall, like so.
And then you can tighten up your bottom nut by the valve.
Gonna tighten that up in there.
Now, remember to make sure all your fittings are tight,
so these two here, these two here, the one here,
and the one up the top, then we make sure
everything's turned off, then we can go downstairs,
turn the water back on and everything,
dry the whole fitting out, and then test for leaks.
If you've got no leaks, big.
So, we've got the water back on now,
we've tested for leaks, we've not had any problems,
now we just gotta test the showers operation itself.
Here we go!
(water running) Oh my God!
And then let's just test the hot.
Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep!
That's really hot.
So there we go, we've successfully taken off
the old shower and disposed of it, and now we've
put our lovely new shower valve on,
with thermostatic control, and with a nice
new little valve here, and the same upstand,
and it's looking amazing, we've got no leaks,
and it works really, really well.
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I hope you've enjoyed today's video, I hope,
you know, you've got the confidence now to maybe
change one of these yourself.
If you wanna buy this shower valve, as I said
at the start of the video, click on the link below,
I've also left links to my beautiful Makita tools,
because I love 'em, they're brilliant,
everyone should have 'em, they're great.
Uh, and anything else I think might be of interest to you.
I hope to see you in next week's video,
and remember, everyone, because it's getting warm now,
ya'll gotta go out there, y'all gotta get yourself a tan,
and you gotta hold tight throughout the night!
See you laters! (shouts)
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