Nuts for covering radiator\shower\sink\toilet pipes

purerandom

hi gang,
Once i have removed my sanitryware from the bathroom i know i will need to cover the exposed radiator, toilet and sink pipes coming out of the floor. What are the names of these nuts i wonder and are they all standard fittings?
i also need to do this for a triton shower and i am expecting them all to require the same nut\fitting.
thanks for any help

Joey the lips

purerandom wrote: »

hi gang,
Once i have removed my sanitryware from the bathroom i know i will need to cover the exposed radiator, toilet and sink pipes coming out of the floor. What are the names of these nuts i wonder and are they all standard fittings?
i also need to do this for a triton shower and i am expecting them all to require the same nut\fitting.
thanks for any help

For the radiator. There is most likely the tail nut from the rad valve still on so all you need is a 351 stopend.

Toilet and sink. if you have a nut and ring on the pipe another stopend will do if its a brass fitting(310) you will just need a 372 blankcap. If the pipes are bear you will just need more stop ends.(351)

http://www.sanbrafyffe.ie/pdfs/01 imperial fittings.pdf

If you do the triton shower on pex which most installers do these days you will only need to change the imperial olive to a metric olive. You use the nut provided and make sure you use an insert in the pex...


Your most important question... Are they standard fittings. Yes.... but we dont know if your plumber on the job last has used english fittings...But highly unlikely.....

Davy

I would often use the techtite blanks for this, you are saving on nuts and rings all the time.

You will have the water off to remove the suite, so you should fit service valves then, and you will always have quick isolation

purerandom

thanks for the helps guy, really appreciate it.
I have a query on turning off the water. i will try and explain.
closed water under kitchen
closed 4 knobs in the hotpress. (hot\cold\bathroom) the 4th was not marked but i closed it anyway.
In the attic beside the water tank i closed 2 knobs.
now the main bathroom is grand as everything is off, however, the en-suite i am working on seems to be immune to the rest of the house. the radiators\sink and toilets all still have water running to them?
Do i actually need to go out to the road and turn off the water there?
surely not, surely i am missing something here!
thanks again for the help, i am learning alot.

Joey the lips

purerandom wrote: »

thanks for the helps guy, really appreciate it.
I have a query on turning off the water. i will try and explain.
closed water under kitchen
closed 4 knobs in the hotpress. (hot\cold\bathroom) the 4th was not marked but i closed it anyway.
In the attic beside the water tank i closed 2 knobs.
now the main bathroom is grand as everything is off, however, the en-suite i am working on seems to be immune to the rest of the house. the radiators\sink and toilets all still have water running to them?
Do i actually need to go out to the road and turn off the water there?
surely not, surely i am missing something here!
thanks again for the help, i am learning alot.

You cant just go turning off nobs in the hot press. You actually might have unbalanced your heating system... Is your heating working? The forth was most likely just down low beside your copper cylinder.This is used to balance your heating.

I can not answer the question on the ensuite.

purerandom

hi,
your right it was low beside the cylinder. As far as i know the heating is working fine. i will double check this evening.
When i get home should i turn this knob 'halfway' do you think?

Joey the lips

purerandom wrote: »

hi,
your right it was low beside the cylinder. As far as i know the heating is working fine. i will double check this evening.
When i get home should i turn this knob 'halfway' do you think?

I dont know. But mine was half way. I am not a plumber i am sorry.

purerandom

your might not be a plumber but you are a great help.
i am sure it was half-way aswell before i tampered with it.
I will test it tonight and see, worst case scenario i will call a plumber.
thanks again for spotting the error i made.