How to attach shower taps to vertically arranged water pipes?

Question

I have an old Jacuzzi brand shower shower cabin that needs to go, and be replaced with a shower basin + sliding doors.

The problem is that the two wall water outlet pipes (hot/cold) are vertically aligned and about eye high. That's no problem for the old cabin where they simply used flexible hoses. Typically you have the two pipes horizontally aligned and can fix the dual tap straight onto it.

The two pipes are pretty near the corner. So my idea is to fix a large plate as cover, and strong enough to hold the taps and then have hoses hide behind that cover.

I wonder if there are other options for situations where the water pipes come out sort of randomly from the wall.

Answer 1

Most modern showers have mixer valves which are installed in the wall and only the shower head pipe or tub spout come out of the wall. The hot and cold pipes are feed to the mixer.

In the case of mixer valves that are not embedded in the wall ( something like a hansgrohe ), the hot and cold stubs come out at a precise separation. The rough in kit includes a bar that locks into the hot and cold stub to ensure once the finish material is on the wall the external mixing valve can be aligned and look level/plumb/square with the finished material.

You could probably rig something up and keep the pipes where they are but it would likely be more work than just moving them to the spot where your new mixing valve is going to be installed.

Moving water supplies lines isn't a huge task in the scheme of a bathroom reno.