Thermostatic Shower Mixer

With a standard mixer, you look for the right temperature by hand, and it shifts as soon as a toilet flush or a dishwasher draws on the mains. A thermostatic mixer contains a cartridge that adjusts the hot-cold mix to hold the chosen temperature.

This bar carries its two controls at the ends, one for temperature, the other for opening the water. You set your temperature once, then open and close without starting over at every shower. It is a comfort appreciated in a home with children, where water that suddenly heats up is quickly a shock.

In the in-situ photos, a square tube rises from the top of the bar to the shower column, and a hose runs down from underneath to the hand shower. The diagram shows two threads, G3/4 and G1/2, and a length of 255 mm.

It is therefore the piece to choose to equip or replace the mixer of an existing shower column, or to complete a column sold without a mixer. Check the thread of the tube on your column that connects to it before ordering.

The water supplies connect at the back, on nut fittings; a red mark indicates the hot side.

The supplier's text talks about a concealed mixer, but the photos show an exposed bar, screwed onto two supplies coming out of the wall. It is an installation with no chasing, provided your water outlets are already there.

The chrome version goes with a stainless or chrome column, the matt black with a black column or a shower screen with dark profiles. Its body is stated to be brass by the supplier. As limescale is the enemy of thermostatic cartridges, descaling from time to time keeps the regulation accurate. Your order is shipped within 24 h.