Hi, basic question, any insight much appreciated.
Looking to have an outdoor tap in my front porch fed from 15mm pex coming up from suspended floor. Pic 1 is inside porch, pex temporarily clipped to give an idea of pipe placement (ignore shoddy blockwork of booted cowboy builder!), Pic 2 is where copper hose union backplate will come out to eventual tap.
Inside porch will have plaster finish, don't want pipes on show, rather chased in wall!
To avoid having joints in wall guessing it would it be very bad practise to have a compression elbow joint at the point going through the cavity wall for joining pex to copper if buried in plaster, would it be better to have the pex to copper joint within the suspended floor below and copper running up all the way up and into the cavity? In that case is it permissable to have a soldered elbow joint into cavity, or even bent copper pipe, to avoid any joints in wall to a tap wall pipe flange? Final and dumb question but even possible to run pex all the way to the tap?
Thanks!
Looking to have an outdoor tap in my front porch fed from 15mm pex coming up from suspended floor. Pic 1 is inside porch, pex temporarily clipped to give an idea of pipe placement (ignore shoddy blockwork of booted cowboy builder!), Pic 2 is where copper hose union backplate will come out to eventual tap.
Inside porch will have plaster finish, don't want pipes on show, rather chased in wall!
To avoid having joints in wall guessing it would it be very bad practise to have a compression elbow joint at the point going through the cavity wall for joining pex to copper if buried in plaster, would it be better to have the pex to copper joint within the suspended floor below and copper running up all the way up and into the cavity? In that case is it permissable to have a soldered elbow joint into cavity, or even bent copper pipe, to avoid any joints in wall to a tap wall pipe flange? Final and dumb question but even possible to run pex all the way to the tap?
Thanks!