Swapping a shower over

[Anita Palley]

Hi all,

We have a ten-year-old Aqualisa Aquarian shower. It's on its last legs and I'd like to do a straightforward like-for-like replacement before it either breaks completely or gets discontinued.

According to the fitting instructions
https://www.showerstoyou.co.uk/uploads/documents/Aqualisa_Aquarian_installation_book_2.pdf
it appears to have push-fit connections to the hidden copper pipes which feed it and project from the wall in which it's screwed. How am I going to remove the old shower without damaging the pipes?

Thanks a lot,

Dots

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[Andy Burns]

Anita Palley wrote:

> it appears to have push-fit connections to the hidden copper pipes
> which feed it and project from the wall in which it's screwed. How am
> I going to remove the old shower without damaging the pipes?

From the looks of this video

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUHASZvXU_U>

could leave the push fit connectors in place and replace most of the
rest around it ... provided the elbows are ok, or maybe yours has the
pipes coming through the wall rather than down it, so has straight
connectors?

usually push fit can be demounted, can't tell from the pictures is there
any 'play' on the gray bushing parts of the connectors, if that can be
pushed towards the copper pipe, you might be able to rotate/wiggle them
off, if they do need replacing.

[John Rumm]

Judging by the fact it has a separate "gripper ring" plate, I would
guess the push fit part just has O rings to make a seal, but no
mechanism to "bite" into the pipe. It relies on being screwed to the
separate gripper plat to hold it on the pipes.

So my guess would be you can simply undo the fixings and then pull it off.


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[Chris B]

On 04/08/2017 21:27, John Rumm wrote:
> On 04/08/2017 20:27, Anita Palley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have a ten-year-old Aqualisa Aquarian shower. It's on its last legs
>> and I'd like to do a straightforward like-for-like replacement before
>> it either breaks completely or gets discontinued.
>>
>> According to the fitting instructions
>> https://www.showerstoyou.co.uk/uploads/documents/Aqualisa_Aquarian_installation_book_2.pdf
>>
>> it appears to have push-fit connections to the hidden copper pipes
>> which feed it and project from the wall in which it's screwed. How am
>> I going to remove the old shower without damaging the pipes?
>
> Judging by the fact it has a separate "gripper ring" plate, I would
> guess the push fit part just has O rings to make a seal, but no
> mechanism to "bite" into the pipe. It relies on being screwed to the
> separate gripper plat to hold it on the pipes.
>
> So my guess would be you can simply undo the fixings and then pull it off.
>
>

Having just done this on a 25 year old shower you are correct if you
remove the word "simply". The parts of the copper pipe on the wet side
of the "o" rings had a sort of surface crust (I hesitate to call it
corrosion - but it was much like that) which made it very difficult to
slide the old "o" rings over as I withdrew the shower. Having got it
off and cleaned up the pipes the new one did indeed simply push into place.

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