question about hot water pipe and fitting new taps

[Chireg69]

Hello
I am about to change my bath and taps but when I took off the old bath panel I noticed the hot water pipe is 22mm all the way to the tap. The cold is 15mm. Now my new taps have 15mm fittings on them both.
My question is, am I ok to cut the 22mm pipe further down and put on a Compression connector reducing it from 22mm to 15mm and then connecting it up to the tap?
I'll be using flexible fittings from the pipe to the tap!
Many thanks for any help!

 

[Skelly87]

Yea i know you were. But your going to cut it right? Therefore the top half you will no longer be needing so it doesnt matter if you damage it whilst scraping the paint to see if its copper. Remember if it is copper make sure you remove the paint from the area your connecting too. Flexi or compression connector, its likely to leak if the pipe is painted. Clean it back to nice shiny copper and youll be fine

 

[Chireg69]

gotcha mate, so if it is steel I can still put the flexi on?

 

[Skelly87]

If its steel youd be better off getting bath taps with 3/4" tails. Steel is all piped in with sockets and threaded ends. So if you were to cut it, youd have to thread the newly cut end to find fittings to connect too. More work than its worth!! I bet its painted copper though

 

[Chireg69]

ok, thanks for the help mate!