My new kitchen was installed some time ago by a well known firm. My dishwasher is connected to an unsupported 15" spur which comes from a cold water pipe via a soldered T junction. It's quite difficult and a stretch to get to and I could only use one hand when screwing in the cold water feed pipe of a new dishwasher. I couldn't help wiggling the spur. Will this wiggling about a bit weaken the T joint? And if so would it be slight leak or a clean break? Bear with me I'm a natural worrier.
Potential weakened T joint
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It's highly unlikely that would happen. A correctly soldered joint couldn't be just pulled apart by hand if you were the strongest Man on the planet !
It's more irritating (for you) that the valve is so carefully buried- they are cheap and tend not to last all that long.....it's not ideal for the T to be supporting the weight of the tube and the dishwasher hose, if you can get anything in there to support it (pipe clip lovely, bit of string or a length of stick would do) it'll be one less thing to go wrong.
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Thanks teryplumb that is very reassuring. Thanks also to oldbutnotdead too. I have just noticed that the spur runs past the hot pipe so that one almost touches the other. I have therefore cross zipped tied and is now very firm.
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