Soft Copper Pipe

[Flip3seven]

Hi, I'm currently in the process of fitting an outside tap and need approximately 3m of 15mm dia soft copper pipe. Does anybody know where I could get a 3m length from please? I didn't realise it would be this difficult to source! Any advice or help would be appreciated.........

 

[snowhead]

Why soft copper?

 

[Flip3seven]

Why soft copper?

Because I need to connect into underground copper pipe work in a trench and don’t have sufficient room to get in with preformed pipe work and soft copper would make it much easier to route

 

[Ric2013]

I'd say try local merchants for Table Y or R220 tube. Ignore the prices their websites show - the websites are purely designed to lose as many customers as possible.

If merchants don't have shortish lengths, you may find someone online willing to sell by the metre.

 

[Chuck]

You can soften standard copper tube by annealing it.

 

[Ric2013]

You can soften standard copper tube by annealing it.

Yeah, but pipe wall thickness would be less. That said, my attitude is new 0.6mm vs 50 year old 1mm, it's a bit of a toss-up which will fail first...