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News & Exhibitions

Nova-Flo® Wins the enABLE09 Award for Best Bathroom Product

4th November 2009 ...more

BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Drivetime - Foxy's Innovation Slot features Nova-Flo® inventor James Barnham

16th October 09 ...more

Nova-Flo® secures new Patents

21st September 09 ...more

Nova-Flo® is a registered and active Green Achiever

30th June 09 ...more

Flowban® (Nova-Flo®'s American varient) gets UPC approval through IAPMO

19th May 09 ...more

London's Dorchester Hotel installs Nova-Flo®

23rd March 09 ...more

WRAS (Water Regulations Advisory Scheme) Approved

16th December 08 ...more

Award Winner - British Plastic Federation's Highly Commended Certificate 2008

9th September 08 ...more

Nova-Flo® installed throughout the Firmdale Hotel Chain

August 08 ...more

Award Winner - Winner of the Lambeth Business Innovation award 2008

2008 ...more

Award Winner - 'Best Innovation in Building Services' from Working Buildings Week

2007 ...more

Nova-Flo® inventor James Barnham interviewed by Ty Pennington at the KBIS 2008 Exhibition in Chi

2008 ...more

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Installation guide

We recommend Nova-Flo® be fitted by a competent plumber. The water supplies to the bath must be shut off prior to work commencing.

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Installation Step 1

Step 1. Trim the existing overflow pipe to allow a smooth path to the Nova-Flo® unit.

(Parts are supplied to allow for different size overflow pipes)

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Installation Step 2

Step 2. Calculate and cut two lengths of 22mm pipe and attach to the tap water connections.

(Always use a pipe cutter to cut the pipes. Do not use a hacksaw as this causes damage to the push-in fittings upon insertion)

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Installation Step 3

Step 3. Trim the lower overflow pipe and attach to the lower Nova-Flo® barb fitting.

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Installation Step 4

Step 4. Connect the hot and cold water supplies (either way around) using push-fit flexy hoses.

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Complete installation

Completed Nova-Flo® assembly.

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Technical Information

The above image shows a typical completed Nova-Flo® installation for bath mounted taps.

With the confined space behind a bath, compression fittings are unsuitable since there is limited room to swing a spanner. Push-in pipe connections are the obvious solution for ease of installation. Apart from the connections to the taps, every other pipe join simply pushes together.

Hot or cold supply pipes can be fitted to either side of Nova-Flo® to eliminate any guesswork.

As standard, Nova-Flo® allows for 22mm pipework (or using 15mm with an enlarger). Internal bore dimensions run at 17mm so it can be used with pressure pumps, power showers or simply a header tank with no loss of performance.

The width between the pipe connections on Nova-Flo® has been designed to accommodate bath mounted tap supplies of 180mm. Other taps such as wall mounted or overflow-fillers will require an an adaption of the plumbing pipework.

Please note that you may need to purchase relevant plumbing connections to connect a Nova-Flo® unit which are not supplied. We can advise on these and supply you with recommended fittings if required.

Installation time is generally under one hour for bath mounted taps.

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Thanks to Burge and Gunson and Andrew Barnham for the location and photography