Bathroom Fitting

Fitting bath stand pipes to mixer tap & tiled/concrete floor

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.11 PM

Our builder has fitted our new bathroom as part of large renovation project. We have had underfloor heating laid in the bathrooms which has been concreted over and the floor tiled. The builder had difficulty fitting mixer tape to the standpipes without loosening the connection to pipe work in the floor (i believe this was plastic pipework) without a leak developing. He managed it but in the process left tool marks over the top of standpipes and scratched the mixer tap. We expressed our dissatisfaction at this but he said doing it again with brand new items would be just a difficult and likely to result in the same problem. He said the problem is that the standpipes are designed to be fixed to wooden floor not a concrete floor and presumably as its a mixer tap joined to both pipes the tap can't be turned on the pipe to tighten its connection. Is he correct? Or just avoiding the time and cost of new fittings and redoing the job?