broyo
New Member
Hello all. Have what is likely an incredibly simple pro task but am DIYing it.
Need to move the cold shutoff a few inches to the left to compensate for the new vanity having a stack of drawers on the right side and only about 2 inches of clearance behind them when closed (i.e. not enough room for the shutoff as currently configured). The new vanity open area will just clear the drain so I should be OK there but the cold line will need to move inline with it or to its left:
While I haven't haven't cut and soldered copper before, I leaning towards doing so vs sharkbites and/or PEX. My current idea is to cut out the old cold water shutoff section and replace it with a tee going sideways into an elbow sweeping forward into a new shutoff:
My question: Am I going in the correct direction here? Am I missing any better/more obvious solutions? If my idea is correct, any implementation details I should keep in mind?
P.S. As I said, I don't think I'll need to mess with the drain other than maybe spin the trap a bit, but wondering why it appears to be a mix of PVC and ABS? And why they appear to be glued together? My reading indicated that that wasn't allowed. Why isn't it all-PVC? Should it be? Pretty sure it's original (circa 1996) as it's the same in the other bathrooms in the house. Anyway, just wondering...
Need to move the cold shutoff a few inches to the left to compensate for the new vanity having a stack of drawers on the right side and only about 2 inches of clearance behind them when closed (i.e. not enough room for the shutoff as currently configured). The new vanity open area will just clear the drain so I should be OK there but the cold line will need to move inline with it or to its left:
While I haven't haven't cut and soldered copper before, I leaning towards doing so vs sharkbites and/or PEX. My current idea is to cut out the old cold water shutoff section and replace it with a tee going sideways into an elbow sweeping forward into a new shutoff:
My question: Am I going in the correct direction here? Am I missing any better/more obvious solutions? If my idea is correct, any implementation details I should keep in mind?
P.S. As I said, I don't think I'll need to mess with the drain other than maybe spin the trap a bit, but wondering why it appears to be a mix of PVC and ABS? And why they appear to be glued together? My reading indicated that that wasn't allowed. Why isn't it all-PVC? Should it be? Pretty sure it's original (circa 1996) as it's the same in the other bathrooms in the house. Anyway, just wondering...