Advise on plumbing toilet room

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Hi.
Please can anyone give me some advice on plumbing my downstairs toilet room?
The toilet is going where the pan connector is, and the sink where the spirit level is.

I am renewing all the copper pipe, including the seized stop tap.
To keep it simple I’m planning on copying the current pipework. I’m planning on cutting the pipe just in front of the stop tap (where you can see copper), and either on the yellow line or on the blue line at the other end above the isolation valve. Which of these would you advise?
From the stop tap, I’m going to run a pipe down with an elbow into a Tee, splitting left for the toilet and running the long pipe towards where the sink is, using flexible tap connectors on to the toilet and sink.
I’m going to solder the tee joints, or would a compression tee do the trick?

Would you recommend this set up of plumbing, or do you have any alternative?
Also, is an isolation valve needed near the sink, considering I’ll have a stop tap 2m away from here anyway?
Thanks for any advice

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Rather than cut the incomer on that bend, (and risk struggling to make another joint on it), I'd see if a new Stoptap could be grafted into place of the existing, using the same nuts/olives. If not, then I'd move the nuts back clear of the olives, and cut through the olives at 45º with a junior hacksaw, they'll split and pull off, allowing you to remove the nuts and start again.

Soldering always better, pipe will need to be empty of water though otherwise joint wont go.
 
Rather than cut the incomer on that bend, (and risk struggling to make another joint on it), I'd see if a new Stoptap could be grafted into place of the existing, using the same nuts/olives. If not, then I'd move the nuts back clear of the olives, and cut through the olives at 45º with a junior hacksaw, they'll split and pull off, allowing you to remove the nuts and start again.

Soldering always better, pipe will need to be empty of water though otherwise joint wont go.
Thanks, that did cross my mind if I’d get a straight pipe from the corner. I’ll give that a go, will probably saw off the olives to use the new nuts. Thank you for that.

Many thanks for your help. Where would you make the pipe cuts to renew in the corner near the hot and cold feed? Thank you in advance

Paul
 
Why do you want to renew the pipes in the corner? If in the wrong place, cut at a suitable point and reroute as required, if ok, leave in situ and come off from the Iso Valves with new pipework.
 

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