Home Improvement

9037 readers

2 users here now

Home Improvement

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

nieceandtows

nichos

[email protected]

165

Advice needed: exposed water valve in shower (fedia.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/homeimprovement

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(all text is linked)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is another shower underneath with easily removable PVC ceiling and access to the pipe. So indeed theoretically I could put the valve in the shower ceiling of the lower apartment. But that segment of pipe is galvanized steel, so I would have to cut it and add threads. I actually have the ratcheting tool to do that but I would still need to buy the threading die. It’d be a bit weird if the lower apartment had the control over the water above. Not a show stopper but I think there are better options.

[–] Uncandy1 2 points 1 year ago

If you have access then you can run a new line away from the bathroom, put a new shut off anywhere you want and then return it back to where you started. Think of a big loop with just a shut off on it.