I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that while I was gone on a mission trip, my parents paid to have my new basement shower tiled. It looks great! the bad news is that I had not installed the correct elbow fitting for the shower head and now there is just a piece of PEX pipe sticking out through a 1 inch hole in the tile. Does anyone know how I can install the shower arm without being able to access the wall behind the tile?
Uh oh: shower head install w/o elbow
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You could crimp a female adaptor onto the tubing and then put the shower arm on. But that sure isn't going to
look very good with your new tile. What's on the other side of that wall?????
look very good with your new tile. What's on the other side of that wall?????
It's a basement shower, so I just have some 2x2s behind the tile and backer. I tried putting a Pex-to-threaded adapter on the pipe right up against the wall and then connected the arm to that, but it will require a bigger flange to cover it than what came with the hardware. Plus, I don't have a way of knowing that I got the PEX seated into the adapter completely and that it isn't just leaking water behind the wall. I'm nervous about it.
Why don't you have the tile guy come back and take the one tile out so you can put the pipe together correctly behind
the wall. Also they do make a deep escusion that would possibly cover the pex adaptor if you wanted to go that route.
the wall. Also they do make a deep escusion that would possibly cover the pex adaptor if you wanted to go that route.
Are le sure that it's not a pex male on the end of the pipe screwed into a female ell and he is just using the pex pipe as a test nipple.
The way I read it was he installed the wrong 90 in the wall. I took for granite its a pex 90.
Correct. It is a PEX 90.
