is this bad practice???

[matmaxedout]

Hi,

just looking into changing our monobloc tap in the kitchen and found that the hot water copper pipe leading from the tap has a t piece connection welded into it that goes towards the dishwasher. can someone tell me if this is the correct way for installation as i want to contact the house builder, because this has now made the job very difficult for me to do by myself.

 

[doitall]

Yep as normal as it gets.

 

[stardanny]

No. To me, bad practice. Make difficult if you want to replace taps.
Also it should have isovalve on pipes to taps.

Daniel.

 

[srhawksy]

Normal, how old is the house?? If you want to contact the builder??

 

[matmaxedout]

house is just coming up to 7 years old, just wanted to check if there was any regulations for this installation as ive checked with 2 of my neighbours and they are both installed different to mine??

 

[muggles]

Would have been nice to see isolation valves going to the tap, although they're not a requirement so there's nowt wrong with it. It's not that hard to do, I could change your tap in an hour including drinking that nice cup of tea you'd made me

 

[srhawksy]

In that case looks pretty sh it! Only 7 years old? No s/valves all green on the copper! Never mind. Your best bet is to get a lovely plumber in to sort it out

 

[srhawksy]

And isolation valves are supposed to be there according to regs

 

[muggles]

And isolation valves are supposed to be there according to regs

Are they? Where does it say that then? AFAIK it's just good practise, they're only required on ball valves

 

[JimCrow]

normally a dishwasher is fed from the cold not the hot.

 

[slapper]

How do you know that's the hot, or do I need to go to spec savers

 

[srhawksy]

And isolation valves are supposed to be there according to regs

Are they? Where does it say that then? AFAIK it's just good practise, they're only required on ball valves[/quote

I don't know regulations off the top of my head, your probably right.

All I know is how to do it right iso valves everywhere nearly, you should be able to isolate each appliance for servicing or.... changing a tap say......

Why only ball valves then?

 

[GuessMan]

It might look difficult to you, but that is what a plumber deals with and charges for. Life is not all push fit and Lego.

 

[muggles]

And isolation valves are supposed to be there according to regs

Are they? Where does it say that then? AFAIK it's just good practise, they're only required on ball valves[/quote

I don't know regulations off the top of my head, your probably right.

All I know is how to do it right iso valves everywhere nearly, you should be able to isolate each appliance for servicing or.... changing a tap say......

Why only ball valves then?

I think it's mandatory on ball valves because they're more prone to leaking and can't be stopped once they start - you can usually turn a tap off a bit tighter unless its a ceramic disc type, but ball valves will go on running once they fail with no way of doing a temporary fix on them

 

[JimCrow]

How do you know that's the hot, or do I need to go to spec savers

When you return from specsavers read the OP again.