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OUr house was built during an economic boom. There was a shortage of turn off valves so only toilets got the turn off valves, all taps run straight through so if a leak occurs, whole house has to be turned off.
Building inspectors turned a blind eye for that period of time many years ago, but now ....
While I've got one bathroom apart I was thinking about putting in a couple of ballcock turn off's for the other bathroom running along the same line.
It's fixxed with no lateral movement possible.
In thinking about what to do, my solution is likely substandard and I"d like to know what's the best way to fix this.
My idea was to take a standard 1/2 1/2 balcock, cut the pipe, slide on one end snug and cut minimal gap in pipe so I can slide other end over the pipe.
Unfortunately both ends of pipe won't be snug to valve on either end which to me is substandard.
I know you can buy slide over couplers for patch repairs,, but I've not seen anything like that with a turnoff included in it.
Suggestions please...
Thx in adv.
Building inspectors turned a blind eye for that period of time many years ago, but now ....
While I've got one bathroom apart I was thinking about putting in a couple of ballcock turn off's for the other bathroom running along the same line.
It's fixxed with no lateral movement possible.
In thinking about what to do, my solution is likely substandard and I"d like to know what's the best way to fix this.
My idea was to take a standard 1/2 1/2 balcock, cut the pipe, slide on one end snug and cut minimal gap in pipe so I can slide other end over the pipe.
Unfortunately both ends of pipe won't be snug to valve on either end which to me is substandard.
I know you can buy slide over couplers for patch repairs,, but I've not seen anything like that with a turnoff included in it.
Suggestions please...
Thx in adv.