Hello All, wonder if you can help/advise me here...
my daughter has a 1920s house and I want to re-route the water pipe into the kitchen. Currently, the incoming feed and stopcock are in the adjoining toilet, in 1/2" iron pipe. From the stopcock, the iron pipe rises to a T-piece which feeds the kitchen and ultimately rest of house. The top of T-piece feeds the cistern to the downstairs toilet, and the side output of the T goes through the wall and turns into a 1/2" copper pipe which in an unsightly way feeds the kitchen and ultimately rest of the house. I want to dispense with the T piece and make the house feed more discrete by having it rise in the downstairs toilet and connect to the rest of the pipework under the upstairs floor. So far so good....except I don't know anything about iron pipe plumbing. I've worked out that it's 1/2" and have bought both a fip and mip to 15mm compression fitting (brass) I scraped off years of paint and took these pics which I hope will make my description clearer.
How do I remove the T piece, or better still, fit a brass coupler to the stopcock and have it 15mm copper from there on? Take a look at the top of the stopcock pic... is that a nut that the iron pipe is inserted in or part of the stopcock itself? An added complication is that the house is in South Wales, and I'm in Leicester...house is currently unoccupied as it's being renovated. ...hope I can upload these pics...
Regards, Nick
sorry, it seems to upload multiple copies of the same pic..so 1, 2 and 4 are above the stopcock, showing the T-piece through the wall, and 3 and 6 are a close-up of the stopcock. pic 4 is the feed to the stopcock, showing an unknown coupler.
Thanks for viewing!
my daughter has a 1920s house and I want to re-route the water pipe into the kitchen. Currently, the incoming feed and stopcock are in the adjoining toilet, in 1/2" iron pipe. From the stopcock, the iron pipe rises to a T-piece which feeds the kitchen and ultimately rest of house. The top of T-piece feeds the cistern to the downstairs toilet, and the side output of the T goes through the wall and turns into a 1/2" copper pipe which in an unsightly way feeds the kitchen and ultimately rest of the house. I want to dispense with the T piece and make the house feed more discrete by having it rise in the downstairs toilet and connect to the rest of the pipework under the upstairs floor. So far so good....except I don't know anything about iron pipe plumbing. I've worked out that it's 1/2" and have bought both a fip and mip to 15mm compression fitting (brass) I scraped off years of paint and took these pics which I hope will make my description clearer.
How do I remove the T piece, or better still, fit a brass coupler to the stopcock and have it 15mm copper from there on? Take a look at the top of the stopcock pic... is that a nut that the iron pipe is inserted in or part of the stopcock itself? An added complication is that the house is in South Wales, and I'm in Leicester...house is currently unoccupied as it's being renovated. ...hope I can upload these pics...
Regards, Nick
sorry, it seems to upload multiple copies of the same pic..so 1, 2 and 4 are above the stopcock, showing the T-piece through the wall, and 3 and 6 are a close-up of the stopcock. pic 4 is the feed to the stopcock, showing an unknown coupler.
Thanks for viewing!