RE-ROUTING HOT WATER SUPPLY PIPE

[nickbenedict]

We had a new kitchen installed about 3 years ago. The dishwasher unit does not go back far enough to be flush with the other units, as the hot water supply pipe criss-crosses the cold feed. It (the dishwasher) only needs to go back about 15mm (the dia. of cold pipe) so I thought I would change the hot water supply to the kitchen tap by putting in an elbow to 1 side of the dishwasher, dropping down, then across near floor level, back up again and then across to the tap. I know it seems a bit complicated but I can't figure out any other way (apart from recessing the pipes into the wall). Will it be OK to go down and then up again?

Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

 

[kirkgas]

no prob doing that at all

 

[nickbenedict]

Cheers for that. I'm also going to fit a new monobloc mixer tap which is supplied with single check valve. Is this for the hot supply (I have cylinder hot/mains cold)? Where do I fit it? To the tap tail or anywhere?

Thanks

Nick

 

[Richard83]

It goes in the cold with the arrow pointing in the direction of flow, I would normally use it to connect the tail to the cold feed (assuming the tail is copper) its good practice to also put a service valve on both hot and cold so if the tap fails or service valve fails they no major draining down jobs to do to service them!!

Richard