Outdoor Copper Showers discount codes
Copper is the right metal for outside. Freezing is what breaks these, and where the water goes is what stops the job.
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Will it survive winter?
Only if it can be drained. Water left in the pipe when the temperature drops splits it along the seam, which is the hardest place to repair. You need a drain down valve at the lowest point and the habit of using it each autumn.
Where does the water drain to?
Not simply into a border, in most places. Grey water rules vary by country and sometimes by town, and a soakaway or a proper connection is usually required. Settle it before buying.
What colour will it go?
Faster and greener than indoors. In the open, copper moves past brown towards the colour of an old roof within a few years. That is the finish most people are buying.
Copper outdoors is the easy part
Copper handles weather better than almost anything else you could put outside. It does not rust, it does not need painting, and the patina it develops in the open is faster and greener than the brown it goes indoors. Left alone for a few years, an outdoor copper shower turns the colour of an old roof, and that is the finish most people are buying.
Freezing is the thing that breaks them
Water left in the pipe when the temperature drops will split it, and copper splits along the seam where it is hardest to repair. If you live anywhere that freezes, the installation needs a drain down valve at the lowest point and the discipline to use it every autumn. Some makers supply the valve, most do not.
Where the water goes
Grey water from a shower cannot simply soak into a border in every jurisdiction, and the rules vary by country and sometimes by town. A soakaway or a connection to the drain is normally required. Settle this before buying, not after.
Mounting
- Wall mounted is simplest, and the wall carries the plumbing.
- Freestanding on a post needs a concrete base and a supply run underground, below frost depth.
- Hot and cold or cold only. A cold only shower by a pool is a different install from a mixer fed from the house.