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I'm just about to fit a pair of new taps to an upstairs basin. While I'm at it I'll take off the flexible tap connectors and replace with soldered copper.
There aren't any isolating valves at the moment. But is there any point? This is the highest water in the house. I did one tap last night, and it's trivially easy to turn off the stop cock and open all the taps. That's what I did last night and not a drop came out, apart from what was held in the tap itself.
Is there some situation I'm missing where isolating valves might be useful? A new basin would probably entail pipe rearrangement anyway. And if I wanted to decommission the basin supplies for a bathroom rearrangement, I'd just cap the supplies.
Although I'm confident of doing compression joints, I've done plenty, it is still another weak(ish) point in the system, compared to soldered copper.
Thanks for advice.
P.S. I've read the very many discussions on flexible connectors, and please, I don't want to resurrect any of that. I'm a belt and braces man, and this is a pedestal basin, so as easy as it should be to bend/solder copper to get it out of the way. Yes, I've got a pipe bender, good soldering torch and I've done a lot of it.
There aren't any isolating valves at the moment. But is there any point? This is the highest water in the house. I did one tap last night, and it's trivially easy to turn off the stop cock and open all the taps. That's what I did last night and not a drop came out, apart from what was held in the tap itself.
Is there some situation I'm missing where isolating valves might be useful? A new basin would probably entail pipe rearrangement anyway. And if I wanted to decommission the basin supplies for a bathroom rearrangement, I'd just cap the supplies.
Although I'm confident of doing compression joints, I've done plenty, it is still another weak(ish) point in the system, compared to soldered copper.
Thanks for advice.
P.S. I've read the very many discussions on flexible connectors, and please, I don't want to resurrect any of that. I'm a belt and braces man, and this is a pedestal basin, so as easy as it should be to bend/solder copper to get it out of the way. Yes, I've got a pipe bender, good soldering torch and I've done a lot of it.