cpvc shower head stubouts

chaddix · Sep 21, 2007

I'm currently building a new home and paid a plumber to do my rough. He stubbed the shower heads with cpvc coming out of the wall and capped off. How do I get a female fitting on the cpvc to accept the shower head and it be short enough for the trim ring to cover it. I thought that all shower head stubs are done with copper. With the cpvc I actually have the edge of the street elbow set at the edge of the exterior wall so a 1/2 glue to 1/2 female will get the shower pipe installed but again my concern is the trim ring going flush against the wall. What am i missing here??
Thanks

Patrick88 · Sep 21, 2007

chaddix said:
I'm currently building a new home and paid a plumber to do my rough. He stubbed the shower heads with cpvc coming out of the wall and capped off. How do I get a female fitting on the cpvc to accept the shower head and it be short enough for the trim ring to cover it. I thought that all shower head stubs are done with copper. With the cpvc I actually have the edge of the street elbow set at the edge of the exterior wall so a 1/2 glue to 1/2 female will get the shower pipe installed but again my concern is the trim ring going flush against the wall. What am i missing here??
Thanks

I'm not sure they make the fitting you are talking about for cpvc.
Most plumbers will do the riser in copper then you would have the 1/2"sweatX1/2"fmale then maybe the shower goose neck or a piece of black pipe or anything 1/2" ips comming out the wall so it can be tiled or what ever.
Tell the plumber to come back and fix it.

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chaddix · Sep 21, 2007

thanks

Thanks patrick88. They do make the fitting in cpvc and your idea of tile is dead on. Had I done tile there'd be plenty of room for the fitting the gooseneck screws into and the trim would cover no prob. All the other baths are tile and will be no prob. I'll call him back to fix it.
Thanks for your help!!

Jadnashua · Sep 21, 2007

Don't use any steel or iron in that, or you'll end up with rust eventually.

Patrick88 · Sep 21, 2007

jadnashua said:
Don't use any steel or iron in that, or you'll end up with rust eventually.

just as the temp stub out so the shower wall can be installes and the dry wallers don't cover the riser.

chaddix · Sep 21, 2007

Thats the whole issue I'm having with this..the walls are already installed and painted. Wish I'd have noticed this oversight sooner. Point well taken about the iron or galvanized pipe but to be clear mr88 was only talking about temp usage because the gooseneck will be the permenat pipe anyway.
Thanks

hj · Sep 22, 2007

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If the arm is going to connect to a CPVC stub out, it will probably break off someday. And if these are tub/showers and he used CPVC to connect to the diverter spout then you will have another/different problem when filling the tub.

Bob NH · Sep 22, 2007

1/2" CPVC is simply not suitable for supporting a shower head or a bathtub spout; but the "plumber" save $3 which was added to his profit.

If you are lucky, he just screwed a nipple with adapter into a proper threaded brass drop elbow as a temporary until the finish was installed.

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