Washing Machine from Boiler Cold Feed - Help

[oneginger]

Hi Everybody - First time here.

I want to move my washing machine from my kitchen to my "Utility" room that has the back door, and the boiler and eventually make it into a full utility. Currently it isn't really used for anything.

There is no current cold feed in place, but there is a waste pipe and a grid directly where I want the washing machine to be. I also have power, so somebody has clearly had an appliance here in the past.

My Problem is that I want to take the cold feed from the pipe feeding the boiler, but I don't know wat which point to adapt the pipe.

Could I add a compression tee where the current loop begins - at the red arrow on the pic- (adding the loop back onto the other end of the tee to complete) and then use the tee for my new cold feed pipe for the washing machine? In other words - insert a tee before the loop. I thought this might be easier than cutting into the pipe, but don't know if its ok to do this? Also, the council come and inspect the boiler yearly and I don't want to give them any cause for concern.

Would of course be adding a removable box to cover all the pipes and make it a bonny job!

Thanks In Advance

EDIT - the cold feed is second from the left at the back, extending to the loop

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Could I add a compression tee where the current loop begins - at the red arrow on the pic- (adding the loop back onto the other end of the tee to complete) and then use the tee for my new cold feed pipe for the washing machine? In other words - insert a tee before the loop. I thought this might be easier than cutting into the pipe, but don't know if its ok to do this?

Yes!

 

[ChrisJP]

Yes, indeed you can, but you'll still need to connect the compression tee to the filling loop valve, which will require a short length of copper tube.
The compression tee connection to the existing copper tube MAY be able to use the existing olive and nut, but it would probably be wise to remove them and use the supplied new nut and a new olive. Similarly the new copper tube from the compression tee to the filling loop valve will need two new olives - one for each end. So you'll need one new olive to augment the two that will come with the compression tee.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yes, indeed you can, but you'll still need to connect the compression tee to the filling loop valve, which will require a short length of copper tube.

All the OP needs do, is to be able to cut the pipe, below the fill loop valve, tidy up the ends, and insert the new T. The pipe, can be undone from it's fixings temporarily, to make the cutting easier.