Help! Concealed Shower

[Newboy]

What are you using to try to seal the threads?

The iron doesn't need to be tight up to the body - the seal is the threads not iron to body

 

[undertrained]

Have you used any jointing compound? Loctite will be better than PTFE. Try removing the shower first and attach pipes and fittings, then just re-screw into holes.

 

[Nick1307]

I have used the wrong fitting for one..
And I've tried ptfe and tru blu from rectorseal, ptfe enriched liquid. But I think these fittings and the loctite should do the job. I hope!
Thank you both for the help. I'll drop another message on here if I still have problems

 

[dilalio]

The correct amount of ptfe or 55 thread, will allow you to position the bent irons in whatever direction you need.
It comes with practice and, with all the different valves and threads on the market, even us traders need to redo one sometimes to get it feeling "just right".
If in any doubt, then the straight iron and street elbow solution is always a work around but sometimes you just don't have the space availvable, due to studs etc.
The key is to connect it all up and pressurise the valve in order to test the inlet and outlet connections of the valve... Use various caps/stop ends on the outlets and leave the whole lot under pressure until the close up and tiling is finished.

 

[Nick1307]

Thanks for your help everyone.
Finally got around to doing it, used the loctite 55 with about 9 turns on the elbows and 7 or 8 on the straight. Picture is attached of what it now looks like.

Thanks again!