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SWMBO has decreed that it is not acceptable to have the shower mixer valve situated beside/under the riser rail. This is because the shower will be a large walk in enclosure with a fixed screen, and the riser will be down the far end. So she reckons we should have the valve 4ft away on the wall opposite the entrance, so that you can turn the shower on and off from outside. I reluctantly admit she may have a point. The problem with this is that the wall there only has a 25mm void behind the plasterboard, which is nowhere near enough to conceal a shower valve. I think I will have to resort to some combination of spacing the wall out a bit, and/or locally digging back into the insulation to create a bigger space. This means breaching the vapour/airtightness membrane and cutting back into the 50mm PIR, then making it all good again afterwards. It's not a particularly appealing prospect tbh. I could go a bit Heath-Robinson and fit an exposed mixer, with a third elbow fixed onto the outlet where the hose ought to go- this would feed the outlet back into the wall where a concealed pipe run would take it to the riser. Not convinced I could make that look right, and it would be a bit harder to clean. So my questions are... - does anybody know of an exposed mixer valve that is actually designed to be sited remotely, with its outlet feeding back to a concealed run? - failing that, what is the lowest profile concealed mixer valve that I can get? Quick and dirty sketch attached... remote mixer valve would be located on the RHS wall, opposite the entrance to the shower.