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Hello
I’m tapping into my hot and cold water supply to feed a new WC and cloakroom basin I’m fitting. I need to run about 4m of pipe for each to get them into the cloakroom.
The supply I’ll tap into is 15mm and that’s how I intend to continue it. However, I have a spare run of 22mm copper pipe that I recovered from a previous gas installation.
Would it be OK to recycle this pipe, obviously with reducers at either end so it still starts and ends as 15mm, or would it cause problems in terms of flow etc? Could it cause water hammer?
I’m guessing it would be cheaper to recycle the 22mm pipe in this way rather than scrap it and buy new 15mm. That said, if I do need to maintain 15mm all the way then I’ll probably go for JG plastic instead, so if anyone knowledgeable about the current scrap rate for copper can advise if perhaps I’d be better doing that in any case then that would be great.
Many thanks.
I’m tapping into my hot and cold water supply to feed a new WC and cloakroom basin I’m fitting. I need to run about 4m of pipe for each to get them into the cloakroom.
The supply I’ll tap into is 15mm and that’s how I intend to continue it. However, I have a spare run of 22mm copper pipe that I recovered from a previous gas installation.
Would it be OK to recycle this pipe, obviously with reducers at either end so it still starts and ends as 15mm, or would it cause problems in terms of flow etc? Could it cause water hammer?
I’m guessing it would be cheaper to recycle the 22mm pipe in this way rather than scrap it and buy new 15mm. That said, if I do need to maintain 15mm all the way then I’ll probably go for JG plastic instead, so if anyone knowledgeable about the current scrap rate for copper can advise if perhaps I’d be better doing that in any case then that would be great.
Many thanks.