plumbing pipe problem

[pdqkwaker]

My house was built circa 1935. I'm trying to fit a new bathroom suit but the pipes in the house are a odd size. They're 16mm and 23mm with realy thick walls so the standard 15 & 22 mm connections aren't any use. I've done a bit of plumbing already but am having to file down the pipe and force on a standard fitting. Are there any converter fitments out there. The local plump centre looked at me gone out when I posed them the problem.

 

[corgiman]

they are imperial sizes matey, get down and get metric to imperial fittings from one of them thar plumbing type shops and you'll be apples

 

[namsag]

By saying really thick walls i once came across approx 15mm copper in a house of the same age where the copper had a thread cut into it and no imperial or metric fittings would fit no matter how much filling etc... Other than ripping whole lot out i think i used a 12mm to 15mm end feed adaptor and soldered the 12mm end into the old pipe so i could join onto the 15mm bit stickin out.

 

[Nige F]

23mm OD....... Well 3/4 bore imperial is smaller od . than metric 22.....cut a thread on `em or rip out and tot them