No room for flexi Bath tap connectors

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• Mar 16, 2021

• #2

Ideally you want to avoid flexible hoses.

If you really want to use a flexible hose you could turn the elbows to give you more space for a hose.

You don't need tape on the threads. Its the olive squashed against the pipe that provides the water tight seal.

 

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Sarah Cross

• Mar 16, 2021

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Nelder said:

Ideally you want to avoid flexible hoses.

If you really want to use a flexible hose you could turn the elbows to give you more space for a hose.

You don't need tape on the threads. Its the olive squashed against the pipe that provides the water tight seal.

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Thanks for your reply and the advice appreciate it.

Would a plastic pipe or bent copper pipe be better?

 

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• Mar 16, 2021

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Get rid of the isolation valves and just use the flexis off the isolation valve nut and olives

don’t forget to turn off your supplies before you undo them

 

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• Mar 16, 2021

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If the gaps say 200mm get 500mm flexi and go round in a loop.
No comments please saying im a bodger please.

 

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Sarah Cross

• Mar 18, 2021

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Thank you all so much for your replies and help.

 

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• Mar 19, 2021

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150mm flexi’s?

 

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• Mar 20, 2021

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Hi Tired and Hungry/Sarah Cross,

Copper is nearly always better if you are good at pulling offsets and have the tools to bend it, but plastic would here have an advantage in that it would accommodate the slight misalinement and be easy to install. Done properly, either is better than a flexi.

 

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