finishing a towel rail cable hole in tiled wall

[ronhicks]

We have an electric towel rail installed on to a tiled wall. The water pipes entering the tiled wall are neatly finished and sealed with a flexible chrome "collar".

The electric cable to heat the towel rail when the heating is off, also enters the tiled wall, but is rather unfinished. The builder (for reasons not clear to me) drilled a similar sized hole as the water pipe holes, but says that he can't use a similar flexible collar because the diameter of the electric cable is too small for the flexible collar to be narrowed sufficiently.

Does anybody supply a smaller chrome collar which will work for electric cables?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

You can buy wall grommets never seen them in chrome effect though, plastic wall grommet
a bit of chrome/silver spray may be?

Have seen a version that is similar to a blanking plate but with a hole in it, not cheap and a bit big for what you want.

 

[xxxpaulzzz]

what about using a collar for microbore pipe?

 

[cantaloup63]

If you have a hole saw for your drill, you could cut a circle out of plastic, and the pilot hole could be easily enlarged to match the cable diameter. Glued on with a tad of silicon and job's a good 'un

 

[ronhicks]

Many thnks for your responses. I have obviously not explained myself properly...apologies. The cable is already in place and comes out of the wall and is sealed onto the towel rail. Any grommet therefore has to have a split in it to allow it to be pulled open and then re-closed round the cable...exactly what happens with the water pipes going into the same tiles walls. Anybody come across a small enough diameter split grommet?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

You could still use a wall grommet, if the rail is purely electric, disconnect and reconnect terminals at rad or split the grommet.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

could try 8mm collars
8mm collars