Hello Board!
My wonderful girlfriend came home with some lovely new taps for the downstairs cloakroom sink. GREAT!
Neither the hot or cold tap has a cut off valve that i can use to stop the water when taking the taps off.
I was wondering if I can freeze the pipes with a hired machine, cut them, fit some flexible tubing with cut-offs on them and then fix the taps.
Is this possible? The pipes go from underneath the sink to the wall, where they are plastered in. There is a drain on the hot water tap but not one on the cold. I did think that draining the whole system would be a lot of trouble. I've not done either before but i'd like to have a go at it.
If freezing is too much trouble for a newbie who's never fitted taps before – i presume draining the system is the only thing i can do?
Thanks for any help you can give.
My wonderful girlfriend came home with some lovely new taps for the downstairs cloakroom sink. GREAT!
Neither the hot or cold tap has a cut off valve that i can use to stop the water when taking the taps off.
I was wondering if I can freeze the pipes with a hired machine, cut them, fit some flexible tubing with cut-offs on them and then fix the taps.
Is this possible? The pipes go from underneath the sink to the wall, where they are plastered in. There is a drain on the hot water tap but not one on the cold. I did think that draining the whole system would be a lot of trouble. I've not done either before but i'd like to have a go at it.
If freezing is too much trouble for a newbie who's never fitted taps before – i presume draining the system is the only thing i can do?
Thanks for any help you can give.