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Inherited bath with house, replacing taps and giving it a clean as it's in a bit of a state and suddenly realised there's no overflow:
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Bit of googling (well 20 minutes) and I found a similar style bath with the plug and overflow combined and inside the bath rather than a separate overflow outlet at the top. I think this is what would originally have been fitted with the control poking up through the small hole in the plate between the tap holes. What's the overflow/plug control/pipey bit to the plug hole called and where do I get one?
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Good luck in finding that.
They both look like very old baths. Reclamation yards?
Maybe email these below and ask if they have ever seen one?
That's a new one on me.
I'd either fit new taps and live without an overflow or change the bath.
Do you really need an overflow?
I believe they are called tower drains or standing drains. I've seen them a fair few times outside of the bath, but never inside.
Is it this? https://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/formoso-sprung-plug-bath-waste-and-overflow
*IANAP*
Is it this?
I don't think so. That one looks like it fits externally to the bath and drains into pipework under the floor.
I think they are also called [cast iron] plunger baths.
eg https://www.salvoweb.com/8158-reclaimed-cast-iron-plunger-bath
I'd be surprised if you got one to match the bath though.
The bath in our old house had one. Worked well.
That is a quality tub!
if you wanted alternate protection against flooding you could probably attach a battery powered overlow alarm to the bottom of that shelfy thing..?
Plunger Waste! We're making progress 🙂
Just need an internal one.
https://www.architonic.com/en/product/drummonds-plunger-overflow-and-waste-unit/1195329
Be nice to reinstate it if we can but not the end of the world if not.
https://drummonds-uk.com/product/plunger-overflow-waste-unit/ ???
I think I'd just get a new bath.
Maybe sell that old one to a reclaimation yard if you can get it out in once piece...
I believe they are called tower drains or standing drains. I’ve seen them a fair few times outside of the bath, but never inside.
I have in old hospital baths. It was basically just a tube that was a push fit in the plughole
That first photo could work in the Arghh my eye! thread.
Like this?
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It was basically just a tube that was a push fit in the plughole
This - you don't need something fancy, just a pipe with a flange/stopper/thingy at the bottom.
Get a piece of pipe with a smaller diameter than the hole and make a plug around the end with Sugru, cut a hole in a normal plug and fit the pipe, something like that.
It doesn't have to look like a bodge job, get something iron or brass, put a cap on it like your first pic, whatever, something to make it look nicer.
Edit: Maybe the top could poke through that small hole, that way you could lift it and fasten somehow to open the plug without removing it entirely. It would need a hole in the side of the pipe for the overflow at the right height.
Wish I had a bath like that now lol
Cool bath. Quite a few modern freestanding baths don't have overflows either.