Monobloc Tap Installation

[wobs]

A job I have put off for a few years is to replace our kitchen tap.

I finally bought a new one, and it comes with two flexible hoses (M10 x 1/2"BSP). However. they are 300mm long.

The old tap has two rigid pipes going to soldered joint about 250mm down from the tap.

I can't find a 200mm flexible hose to replace this, and it seems too short for the 300mm hose.

I hope to avoid re-plumbing the nightmare that is the copper pipework around this area, so I wondered what the alternatives were?

Can I get a longer hose and loop it?

Or remove the old tap, and fit an adaptor to the old rigid connectors to fit the new tap?

Or a new copper tail:
https://www.bes.co.uk/copper-monobl...MIxoHWnISQ5wIVA4fVCh2DdQvJEAQYCiABEgI60vD_BwE

 

[CBW]

If you’re going to use flexi hoses, then I would just cut the copper pipes back further to avoid any kinks inthe pipe.

 

[oldbuffer]

Have a look at BES 19800, basically a replacement for what you already have. You'd need to be sure they would fit your tap and that you could still fit it.
However, it still means you are going to have to do some soldering, unless you cut both old and new and join with a compression coupler. You could insert isolation valves as the couplers if there is room, assuming you haven't already got some further along the pipework.
If you have to use the flexi's check the size of the pipes going down into the soldered elbows. If they are 15 mm, you could cut them to suit the length of the flexis. If the flexis have 15 mm compression fittings its easy. If they have 1/2" or 3/8" BSP female connectors, you will need a Screwfix 2665R (1/2") or 6089R (3/8") to give the compression connection onto the 15 mm pipe.