Flexi tap tails

[Pocster]

@markc stop trying to get me to (expletive deleted) it up for your amusement.

[TonyT]

Cut more Of the carcass out, fit pipework, rebox to tidy up 

[joe90]

Anyone used these (I haven’t).  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flexible-Bendable-Copper-Plumbing-Stick/dp/B01LBHR2LU/ref=sr_1_5?crid=27L6GIFS0EC4C&keywords=flexible+copper+pipe+15mm&qid=1705948803&sprefix=Flexible+copper+pipe%2Caps%2C79&sr=8-5

[Pocster]

9 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Anyone used these (I haven’t).  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flexible-Bendable-Copper-Plumbing-Stick/dp/B01LBHR2LU/ref=sr_1_5?crid=27L6GIFS0EC4C&keywords=flexible+copper+pipe+15mm&qid=1705948803&sprefix=Flexible+copper+pipe%2Caps%2C79&sr=8-5

Surely the same issue as a flexi tap ? I.e failure . Use one @joe90 then post photos of the flood 😊

[dpmiller]

The copper flexys are handy sometimes. Our chinese friends offer convoluted stainless tube (similar to the tracpipe or the flexy solar stuff) in short lengths with flat faced ends for a few quid a touch, they're quite nice too. Same is used inside UVCs as the HE coil

 

this kinda thing:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002680190702.html

 

 

[joe90]

22 minutes ago, Pocster said:

Surely the same issue as a flexi tap ? I.e failure . Use one @joe90 then post photos of the flood 😊

I don’t think so, the other flexi,s are rubber tube inside protective mesh and from my experience it’s the rubber or rubber join that fails. These are corrugated copper.

[Pocster]

16 minutes ago, joe90 said:

I don’t think so, the other flexi,s are rubber tube inside protective mesh and from my experience it’s the rubber or rubber join that fails. These are corrugated copper.

I see . So how does it flex without leaking ? I.e with no inner tube ?

[joe90]

1 minute ago, Pocster said:

I see . So how does it flex without leaking ? I.e with no inner tube ?

It’s corrugated and copper is quite soft so it can be bent by hand and remain at that bend rather than be “rubbery”

[Onoff]

1 hour ago, Pocster said:

Surely the same issue as a flexi tap ? I.e failure . Use one @joe90 then post photos of the flood 😊

 

Make sure you rub them up and and down well with something like old nylon knickers (seriously). Makes it easier to bend. 

[Pocster]

24 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

Make sure you rub them up and and down well with something like old nylon knickers (seriously). Makes it easier to bend. 

You should be posting on pornhub with that dirty talk 

[Onoff]

23 minutes ago, Pocster said:

You should be posting on pornhub with that dirty talk 

 

When I was at college there was a box full of 'em. You took a pair for working pvc conduit. 

[steveoelliott]

Appreciate this is a very old thread but now I am in the market to replace two old Bristan basin taps, it seems that the ones I have looked at from both Grohe and Bristan have flexi tails fitted. It also seems there is no way to remove them, they are factory fitted.

 

Given the comments on here regarding their failure, it seems to me that I would be best steering away from them. That said, one would assume that the quality from Grohe and Bristan should be sufficient to outlast the stated 10 year guarantee.

[Onoff]

I think Flexi Tap Tales would have been a better thread title.

[sharpener]

On 21/02/2024 at 17:17, steveoelliott said:

That said, one would assume that the quality from Grohe and Bristan should be sufficient to outlast the stated 10 year guarantee.

 

I would not recommend Bristan. Their basin waste corroded through in < 5 yrs, replaced under warranty. Looking at it I think the casting was a cheap zinc-rich alloy not proper brass and there was intermetallic corrosion between it and the brass nut.

 

The shower head had an array of jets moulded into a rubber plate, when new you could massage the rubber and all the limescale would come out. After a year or so it became brittle and all the little rubber jets started to break off.

 

Their bath taps have worn so there is too much travel; after turning them off you have to rotate them back a bit or they drip. The shower/bath pull selector leaks, dismantling and cleaning with de-scaler works for a short time but it recurs and I have given up.

 

Out of four fittings only the basin mixer tap is OK after a few years.