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need creativity for shower
Hi, I have a shower which has a single know (I think it’s a moen) and to turn it on, you just pick it up and hot you move it to the left, cold to the right. Sorry if that doesn’t make sense, please just look at the picture.
Anyway, behind it is the pipes, and they aren't connected to anything, just standard copper pipes. They aren't attached to anything from how it looks/feels. The wall is at least 2/3 inches away from the pipes (it is a shower unit thing - just one giant piece) The shower walls itself seem sturdy, but the pipes only have their own strength.
I can see this shower not being done right, the pervious owner did a lot of diy work and well he did lack something. There are a lot of mini-projects that are unfinished, etc. and in that very bathroom pipes would freeze (which I already fixed).
Anyway back to the problem. I have a time limit of like a week to do everything to get this problem fixed, and by my standards, a week isn't long (after I do everything else that I have to). So no cutting into walls, or taking the shower out. I really just have that little space behind the plate you see in the picture to work with. I'm fine with that, I have the patience to do that. My problem is, I can't reach anything inside there to fasten the pipes to.
My thought is to use a piece of wood (really two pieces) and form it to be snugged up around the pipes and screw them together and also into the two holes on the bottom of the valve for the shower (It has 4 total holes, the top two are used on that plate). I also want the wood to be snugged up against the plate all around. To give you a better idea of the problem, the whole plate and know does move left and right a lot. The knob part will also pull out (into where you stand for a shower) even farther. The only reason it doesn’t push in more is because the two screws in the plate, so the screws & plate hold it from going that way. I can't really tighten the screws a lot because this just pulls the knob out. As far as up and down, I think the pipe that goes to the shower head is supporting all that, but I also don’t want to stress that pipe out.
I don’t mind working the extra hard, or a lot, just no walls at the moment, but I want a nice job (so it doesn’t move at all and it looks the same as it does now).
Thank you
P.S. sorry this is so long, and confusing, and a lack of pictures. I will try to get a picture of the inside tomorrow, and you can recommend any other pictures you think would be helpful.
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