Bath Plumbing

[Mrxman]

Hi There

Iam replacing an old cast iron bath as it looks pretty bad. I anticipate tap holes on the new acrylic bath tub won't line up with existing pipework.

My first solution was to use flexible connectors but as you can see on the pictures of the hot tap, the distance from tap to tee is about 13 cm. On cold tap it's less and would require a very short connector.
Also it seems to my diy eyes that it would require a female to female connector for it to work with the tee (don't think they make those in 22 mm let alone short ones).

Any ideas how I can make this work?

Many thanks

 

[Madrab]

Where does it tee to? Or it that the feed in and it tee's downwards somewhere else?

You can use flexi's and just pigtail them. How is the water supplied, is it mains hot and cold?

 

[Mrxman]

Where does it tee to? Or it that the feed in and it tee's downwards somewhere else?

You can use flexi's and just pigtail them. How is the water supplied, is it mains hot and cold?

It's teed to hot and cold pipe from boiler which is the horizontal pipes that's slightly bend. It then goes downward into the floor, not sure where though.
Will pigtailing them not cause some kind of problem?
What about the connectors? looks to me like i'd need a female to female 22 mm flexi which Iam not sure exists. Any thoughts?

 

[Madrab]

Given it needs 2 female ends, then it would be 3/4" flexi hose which would fit the 22mm tee. You would need to file the end of the tee so the fluted ends would be flattened so it doesn't cut the seal.

Pigtailing allows longer hoses to be used without kinking them

 

[Mrxman]

Given it needs 2 female ends, then it would be 3/4" flexi hose which would fit the 22mm tee. You would need to file the end of the tee so the fluted ends would be flattened so it doesn't cut the seal.

Pigtailing allows longer hoses to be used without kinking them

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Awesome, thanks. Great info

 

[terryplumb]

Given it needs 2 female ends, then it would be 3/4" flexi hose which would fit the 22mm tee.

I very much doubt that 22mm tee will have a 3/4bsp thread.

 

[Madrab]

I very much doubt that 22mm tee will have a 3/4bsp thread.

Of course, you are absolutely correct. Don't know where my head was at with that

Awesome, thanks. Great info

Apologies @Mrxman , you will need to use leave copper tails out of the top of the tee's and then use 22mm compression to 3/4" female flexis to make the connections

 

[terryplumb]

That's more like it ...thought you had gone mad..Rab

 

[Madrab]

That's more like it ...thought you had gone mad..Rab

That's what happens when you've got one eye of feckin ticket master for her highness for friggin Oasis and then ..... 6 odd hours later still not getting anywhere. That's 6+ hours of my life I'll never get back ..... what an absolute waste of time!!

 

[Mrxman]

Of course, you are absolutely correct. Don't know where my head was at with that

Apologies @Mrxman , you will need to use leave copper tails out of the top of the tee's and then use 22mm compression to 3/4" female flexis to make the connections

Great, thanks