leaking flexible connector on bath

[kevplumb]

Second - if I fit one of these connectors with an isolator - won't I still have to turn the water supply off if I need to replace it in the future? ( I know it would have been useful to stop the leak...or change a washer)

yes

So a separate isolator would be better - but I would have to cut a bit of the pipe out to put the isolator in and then have a short length of pipe to join onto the connector? (lots of compression joints - recipe for disaster?)

na common practice

 

[Lusi83]

Thanks again...
And why would they have used the expander thing in the first place?

 

[kevplumb]

probably had the wrong size flexi

you can get 3/4"" (tap end)

with 15 or 22 compression ends

if your going to remove the fitting and fit a valve you want a

3/4 x 15 comp