Hi, basic question, any insight much appreciated.
Looking to have an outdoor tap in my front porch fed from 15mm pex coming up from suspended floor. Pic 1 is inside porch, pex temporarily clipped to give an idea of pipe placement (ignore shoddy blockwork of booted cowboy builder!), pic 2 is eventual tap placement. Inside porch will have plaster finish, don't want pipes on show but chased in wall.
To avoid having joints in wall guessing it would it be very bad practise to have a compression elbow joint to be buried in plaster at the point going through the cavity wall?
Would it be better to have the pex to copper joint in the suspended floor below, and copper pipe running up and into the cavity?
In that case is it permissable to have a soldered elbow joint in plaster, or bend copper pipe to avoid any joints in wall? To connect to a tap wall pipe flange?
(Final and dumb question but even possible to run pex all the way to the tap?)
Thanks!
Looking to have an outdoor tap in my front porch fed from 15mm pex coming up from suspended floor. Pic 1 is inside porch, pex temporarily clipped to give an idea of pipe placement (ignore shoddy blockwork of booted cowboy builder!), pic 2 is eventual tap placement. Inside porch will have plaster finish, don't want pipes on show but chased in wall.
To avoid having joints in wall guessing it would it be very bad practise to have a compression elbow joint to be buried in plaster at the point going through the cavity wall?
Would it be better to have the pex to copper joint in the suspended floor below, and copper pipe running up and into the cavity?
In that case is it permissable to have a soldered elbow joint in plaster, or bend copper pipe to avoid any joints in wall? To connect to a tap wall pipe flange?
(Final and dumb question but even possible to run pex all the way to the tap?)
Thanks!
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