North Leeds Plumbing & Heating – Home Improvement and DIY Advice

Installing new bathroom taps is not recommended if you are in any way unsure about how to go about doing it correctly. However, knowing how to install your own bathroom taps can greatly cut the cost of your bathroom. Of course, whether you are using a single-bloc mixer or just a regular two-tap pair, each will add its own degree of difficulty to the procedure.

The most important thing to do before you start to remove existing taps and connect the new ones is to ensure that the main water system has been shut off and completely drained. Also, you should never fix the bath into place before installing the bath taps, as this will make the job a lot harder, especially when you are trying to connect the pipe work to the taps.

The taps should be secured by hand on to the base of the bath or basin before the pipe work is connected. If you find that the existing pipes are unable to make a proper connection to the taps you will need to use corrugated copper piping, which you will be able to bend into shape, or flexible tap connectors to make a secure connection. You should then secure the copper piping to the insert of the taps before the existing pipe work.

Once the taps and the corrugated copper piping are in place connect the pipes and secure them tightly with a spanner. You can then tighten the bathroom taps to the bath or basin and turn on the water again.