How to plumb in the tap on a sink.

[quatro]

I have 2 pillar taps for my kitchen sink. A copper pipe obviously fits into it but how would I make this connection watertight??

I've plumbed in mixer taps before but they had the pipes already attached to them......
thanks

 

[ChrisR]

The conventional solid fitting is just called a "tap connector",
but if you use the flexible hoses which most people do now, they have the right fitting on the end - it'll be half inch bsp for a kitchen tap.

 

[quatro]

I know about the connections as I've used them before but I mean where the pipe needs to fit up into the base of the tap - into the threaded bit....
hard to explain I wish I could draw it!

 

[kevplumb]

fibre washer

 

[ChrisR]

Standard 15mm compression tap conectorfor 1/2" tap

Flexible tap connector

They both need washers, which usually come with them.

 

[Nige F]

some taps used to come with tapered inside and the copper would go straight in ....a compression coupling would serve to supply 2 nuts and olives for a pair of taps .......only applied to half inch not 3/4 bath taps ..and ballvalves could be done too

 

[kevplumb]

jeez nige yer must be my age

 

[ChrisR]

Sometimes they're still like that. So darned sharp that they go straight through a rubber washer in a flexy tap connector!