Kitchen sink plumbing

[geoffwh]

I'm installing new kitchen units. Is it best to have plumbing connections (washing machine hoses, isolating valves etc) in the sink base unit where they are more accessible or somewhere else? Wen they are under the sink it can make removal of the sink base difficult.
Does anyone have an 'ideal layout for sink plumbing arrangements ? A drawing would be great.

 

[hi-spec plumbing heating]

>in the sink base unit where they are more accessible

most common

>Wen they are under the sink it can make removal of the sink base difficult

why do you want to remove once installed

 

[petetheleak]

Hi -spec ,do you not take the kitchen sink with you when you go on holiday.
Am sure my missus does.

 

[Symptoms]

Good practice is to have everything easily available, so under the sink is usual. Subsequent removal of base unit shouldn't be a problem if your services are fixed to the wall behind the unit, then turn at right-angles to emerge via holes (cut neatly with circular hole saw) through the unit back-board. On to these spigots are connected trap, braided pipes to taps, etc. When you want to remove base unit disconnect braids, trap and slide to whole lot out. We always install hot & cold stopcocks on the fixed pipework (lower down) also to emerge through holes in the backboard.

 

[geoffwh]

Thanks symptoms, very helpful. One of the problems is that the stopcock comes up through the floor which means I will need to do quite a lot of cutting of the backboard which inevitably weakens the structure also the waste comes in from the side whch means cutting the side panel as well. If Im not careful there wont be much left of the carcase!