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Thanks chaps... and have a good Christmas

The MIs for our kitchen tap (which has three flexi tails, one extra for boiling water) say to put a little silicone grease on the O seals (the tap was supplied with a small sachet of the clear stuff) then fit the tails hand tight only up inside the base. The tails were long enough that I could feed all three down through the worktop hole from the top, one by one, so the ends didn't cause the things to jam in the hole (at a guess the flexi tails were around 18" long). Fitting the big plate underneath, plus the washer and long tubular nut to secure the tap was pretty easy after that. We've had no problems with leaks, even though the tails are only hand tight. In fact you can unscrew the tails two or three turns and they stay sealed, as the O rings seal into machined bores in the base of the tap, away from the threaded part, so they aren't working under compression at all.

+1. Hand tight. One option And another First one can go into a bend or straight coupling. Second one to pipe or copper. ?

Hand tight twisted from the bottom of the flexi. Better to assemble this bit before passing through the tap hole, bit of silicone lube helps... Extra joins underneath are okay as it's all accessible Flexi tail connections are either 8 or 10mm so yes they can be different, all have a rubber O ring for the hand tight seal

Getting stuck in to Fort Knox foundations this morning. This programme has blended two separate photos/ I took one of the site and a panoramic of the view - which looks kind of moody with the low mist. Dragged them both on here and it has melded them = amazing.