Piping up bath
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1. Rather depends what the taps come with.
2. Flexis are restrictive of flow.
3. If you have a hot water cylinder (vented or unvented) try and go with 22 mm hard piped, preferably copper, where hot and cold have 3/4" BSP inlets.
4. If you have a combi, 15 mm hard piped is better in that you lose less cooled off hot water in the pipes. But a combi is likely to give you a slow filling bath anyway, limited by its capacity to heat water instantaneously.
2. Flexis are restrictive of flow.
3. If you have a hot water cylinder (vented or unvented) try and go with 22 mm hard piped, preferably copper, where hot and cold have 3/4" BSP inlets.
4. If you have a combi, 15 mm hard piped is better in that you lose less cooled off hot water in the pipes. But a combi is likely to give you a slow filling bath anyway, limited by its capacity to heat water instantaneously.
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Most the time would use 22mm pipe with tap connectors and fibre or rubber washers.
If it's a smaller combi though then a thought would be to use flexi's to reduce the flow through the pipe to help keep the HW temp up. Never tested that though most bath taps on a combi have to be wound back a bit to keep the flow temp hot enough.
If it's a smaller combi though then a thought would be to use flexi's to reduce the flow through the pipe to help keep the HW temp up. Never tested that though most bath taps on a combi have to be wound back a bit to keep the flow temp hot enough.
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