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How a kitchen tap should be:
Tap connected to a flexible tail with female connector at the end connected to an isolator valve connected to the rest of your plumbing.
Reality:
Tap connected to copper tails normally used in healthcare and food industry settings with a male end connector, connected to a female to male flexi hose terminating on a compression fitting with no isolation valve.Naturally, to be an extra bastard, the existing flexi hose is also really long so that once you add in the length of the copper tails it makes it impossible to get flexi tap tails long enough. You then extend the pipe work to get the new tails to reach, don’t fully tighten a compression fitting and flood the kitchen👍🏼
apc
I haz now done a tap replacement! Really easy, to be honest. It would have been even easier if the sink had been one I could have removed. Definitely order some of the correct tools for the job, unless you're sure you can remove the sink. If you can, normal spanners should work okay.
I got this snazzy set from Toolstation for just over a tenner. Nice to have all the sizes as a lot of taps have all different size nuts. I also used these to tighten the loose kitchen tap, which was great.
You shouldn't need access to the stopcock? There should be little screws on the pipes below your sink that will turn off the water supply for the hot and cold pipes independently.