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Old 03-17-2010, 11:57 PM
raymr raymr is offline
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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel View Post
Might not be the look you are going for, but you could move the female half of the coupler beyond the shower wall, then if it ever leaks again, it will be inside the tub. Simple plumbing job, depending on what material the pipe comes through. I did one that way because the homeowner had previously had a failure, and swore to never put that joint behind the wall again. Used a standard copper male poking through the wall with an escutcheon ring, and a fairly large chrome bushing, and it really did not look all that unusual.
I also thought about an inset plastic housing that the pipe can stick up through like a washing machine hookup, only smaller. On most showers I see the pipe and trim ring just flop around loosely. I hate that, but the basic design is bad to begin with and sloppy construction makes it worse.
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