Hi All.
Got bit of a head scratcher, for me, but no doubt you have come across problem hundreds of times.
I got to insert a length of copper pipe between the bath tap connectors & isolation valves. Not normally a problem as the copper pipe on the mains feed has some give in it so you just bend them down a bit until pipe slips into the joints.
This will be ok on one pipe but a problem on the hot tap. I have a 22 mm feed coming up from kitchen, then a 90 bend and about 200 mm from that the solder joint with feed up to tap. Because of the pipe coming up from kitchen there is hardly any give in the pipe so I cannot push it down by more than 5 mm. Not really sure but I think about 10mm of pipe goes into each compression joint so I cannot see how I can get the extra 15mm to slip connecting pipe into joints.
I can only think of 2 ways, one is to loosen the tap, slip pipe in and re-tighten tap. The other way is to just slightly lift bath to slip pipe in joints then lower down. As you can gather I want to work with solid copper pipe not flexies. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Got bit of a head scratcher, for me, but no doubt you have come across problem hundreds of times.
I got to insert a length of copper pipe between the bath tap connectors & isolation valves. Not normally a problem as the copper pipe on the mains feed has some give in it so you just bend them down a bit until pipe slips into the joints.
This will be ok on one pipe but a problem on the hot tap. I have a 22 mm feed coming up from kitchen, then a 90 bend and about 200 mm from that the solder joint with feed up to tap. Because of the pipe coming up from kitchen there is hardly any give in the pipe so I cannot push it down by more than 5 mm. Not really sure but I think about 10mm of pipe goes into each compression joint so I cannot see how I can get the extra 15mm to slip connecting pipe into joints.
I can only think of 2 ways, one is to loosen the tap, slip pipe in and re-tighten tap. The other way is to just slightly lift bath to slip pipe in joints then lower down. As you can gather I want to work with solid copper pipe not flexies. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks