simple problem- difficult solution?

[andywatson]

Hi,

I am fitting a basin in the en suite, and the existing plumbing only has a cold water feed. As it will only be for hand washing after the toilet, I have decided to live with this, rather than rip up all my floors to get a hot water pipe to it.

The basin I have has 2 tap holes, so I want both to have (cold) water, rather than 1 not working. I will be running 15mm flexible plastic pipe behind plasterboard that will be tiled. I went to B & Q today for the bits, and was surprised to find they didn't sell a "Y" shaped adapter, as this seemed to be the simplest method of dividing the water from a single pipe to 2 taps. The best I could find was a "T" adapter that would then have needed extra elbow joints and seemed over complicated for the job.

Do the "Y" shaped adaptors I envisioned exist?
Do I need to fit a T then 2 elbows to each pipe to get the pipe split?

Cheers

Andy

 

[ChrisR]

Why not just use a standard chrome or white or gold blanking disc in the spare tap hole?

67 pence.

 

[andywatson]

Sorry, I can't have explained myself very well.

I want 1 pipe to feed 2 taps, not 2 pipes to feed 1 tap (which I think is what you were thinking).

Andy.

 

[Paul Barker]

T directly under one tap then only one elbow needed.

This takes me back to the Crypton Factor.

 

[chrishutt]

He know's what you said. He was just suggesting the option of having just one cold tap (why have two?). If you must have two, then you need a tee, simple as that. It's you're choice.