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No. Tap to water connection is ~350mm. Tails are standard size of 300mm (no idea where the previous person got these longer tails from).
So, get 10mm x 300mm x 15 mm tails and 300mm x 15mm flexible hose and join it together with an offcut of copper pipe.
Just start humming "Hakuna Matata", and get a bit creative with them tubes!
Creative plumbing is en vogue right now!
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Are you using putty on the olives / tape on the threads?
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Trunkie
@Greenbank
Dripping tap replaced but nothing is ever easy. Thought it would be a simple case of undo the tails at the tap, screw in new ones and Robert is my avuncular relation.
Old monobloc tap had 12mm tails, new one has 10mm tails.
That's fine, just get new flexible tails and all good.
No. Tap to water connection is ~350mm. Tails are standard size of 300mm (no idea where the previous person got these longer tails from).
So, get 10mm x 300mm x 15 mm tails and 300mm x 15mm flexible hose and join it together with an offcut of copper pipe.
First attempt I overtightened the compression fittings on one pipe and it was dripping out of the back of the compression fitting. Removed it, saw the olives were compressed to bits, did it again without over tightening it.
Now I've just got one very small drip from the back of the compression fitting at the water connection (same nut and olive as before).
Now stuck in a "turn off water (luckily an inline valve), undo slightly, retighten, wait hours with paper towel underneath hoping it stays dry, lather, rinse, repeat".
Last resort: plumber.