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Hi - I am refurbishing my bathroom at the moment and having real nightmares with bath taps.

I have a 1930s cast iron bath with telephone style taps. The holes to fix the taps to the bath are in the bath above the waste - that is, on the foot end of the bath, NOT deck mounted, and the distance between inlet centres is 180mm, not the current standard 150mm

I have bought found Heritage Rhyland TLC03 taps (tried to include link but the forum rules won't allow it)
with the correct inlet centres and they will fit the bath

HOWEVER
This is designed to be wall mounted rather than fixed to the bath. The screw threads are not long enough to go through the bath and fix a back nut on.

The old taps came with elbows, but were a different size so we cannot use these elbows. The new tap has no elbows.

Is there any way we can extend the screw threads so we can fit these taps on? Has anyone come across this before? We really don't want to replace the bath as it is original to the house and I have just spent 2 days resurfacing it.

Would appreciate any suggestions anyone has. Thanks for reading.
 

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