Fit Cooke & Lewis sink base.

[Gasguru]

I've given the link for the water regs book...

 

[Draughtsman]

So if your doing something with the kitchen plumbing you can turn it off, then the wife and kids can still have a shower when you **** it up

Anyone can flash a joint, that's the easy bit if you do the prep right.

Plumbing is overhyped, by overpriced plumbers.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Plumbing is overhyped, by overpriced plumbers.

How much should plumbers charge?

 

[Gasguru]

Anyone can flash a joint, that's the easy bit if you do the prep right.

Plumbing is overhyped, by overpriced plumbers.

Buy the book and stop guessing then...

 

[dilalio]

Plumbing is overhyped, by overpriced plumbers.

Good! I chose the right career path then!
I am booked up to my ears with work and always will be, because even overpaid fund managers and IT geeks, who have just lost their latest cushti number still need to take a schit and a hot shower

 

[Draughtsman]

Buy the book and stop guessing then...

I don't need the book. It's a kitchen; when I moved in it rather fortuitously had the two traditional options of water temperature provided, each through a 15mm copper pipe (heavily referencing similar arrangements in other kitchens). Unsurprisingly, and with no assistance from any regs booklet, the old arrangement worked fine with the last sink unit, so it'll work fine with a quite minor variation in pipe positions on the next.

Go gaslight the gullible, you're wasting your valuable time here..

• Gaslighting is the process of causing someone to doubt their own thoughts, beliefsand perceptions.

 

[dilalio]

It's a kitchen; when I moved in it rather fortuitously had the two traditional options of water temperature provided, each through a 15mm copper pipe (heavily referencing similar arrangements in other kitchens). Unsurprisingly, and with no assistance from any regs booklet, the old arrangement worked fine with the last sink unit, so it'll work fine with a quite minor variation in pipe positions on the next.

Go gaslight someone else.

• Gaslighting is the process of causing someone to doubt their own thoughts, beliefsand perceptions.

You have missed the point being made.
In the UK, we benefit from a safe, wholesome and reliable source of potable water from the mains supply to each property (check history for cholera epidemics) and there is a reason for this... Just because something works doesn't mean its right... Suggest you look up WRAS.

 

[dilalio]

still need to take a schit and a hot shower

... Preferably, not with the same water!

Quoting myself above, but, very relevant to this thread!

 

[Ian H]

I try to avoid compression joints generally, but in inaccessible areas? Always.

Put them in the cupboard, where you can access them.

Or don’t.

 

[Draughtsman]

The bathroom is still operational, the washing machine in that kitchen is still in use via the Heath Robinson affair that supports the various pipes. There's no lead pipework, there has been no standing water.

 

[Ian H]

You’ve lost me now. I thought you were fitting a new kitchen unit and sink to some existing copper pipe.

 

[Draughtsman]

... Preferably, not with the same water!

Quoting myself above, but, very relevant to this thread!

Thank you but I'm aware of that basic issue. My cholera jabs are current, as it happens.

 

[Draughtsman]

You’ve lost me now. I thought you were fitting a new kitchen unit and sink to some existing copper pipe.

So did I, with a slight variation in the pipework. Then the regs brigade popped in.

 

[dilalio]

Thank you but I'm aware of that basic issue. My cholera jabs are current, as it happens.

Crack on then... Fill your kettle from the toilet bowl and fu¢k your fellow countrymen eh!

 

[Draughtsman]

No, you've lost me there, I don't do nationalism.