New tap not matching

[Stevehazard]

This might be a silly question, but hopefully shouldn't take too long to answer. My elderly father asked me to change his basin taps, despite me not being much of a DIYer. We got the new taps. I turned off the water supply, ran off the water, disconnected and removed one of the old taps. Upon putting the new tap in, the 'stem' (the threaded section at the bottom of the tap) doesn't seem to be quite as long as the one on the old one- it's about an inch shorter. It doesn't reach quite far enough to reach the nut on the existing pipework. Most of the flexible tails that I could see had female-female connectors, so I don't think that I would be able to fit those. As I said I'm not much of a DIYer, so I'm hoping to avoid having to cut any pipes. Does anyone know if there is any sort of connector/extension type product for this?

 

[footprints]

Should get you out of trouble but might be better fitting a flexible connection.
http://www.builderdepot.co.uk/1-2-x...n-brass.html?gclid=CKSCtPWP2s4CFVQaGwodgAQOvQ

 

[Stevehazard]

Thanks. That looks like it should do the job.

 

[FiremanT]

Something like this?:


http://www.diy.com/departments/plumbsure-brass-tap-extender/225600_BQ.prd

 

[HERTS P&D]

Not cheap FireT.

Andy

 

[FiremanT]

Only 5 x the builderdepot one . HaHa.
TBH I did not look at footprints link. I thought he was linking to a flexi.

Still, on the same lines. And I've never heard of BD!

 

[Nige F]

And I've never heard of BD!

"BD to Z Victor one "- Z cars with Brian Blessed and others