Kitchen Tap Hoses - Old type - New type difference

It’s not a case of old / new style, just that there’s several different fittings available on flexi hoses (as with most plumbing fittings)

Easiest solution would be to buy new set of hoses that match your existing set up - with internal thread ? Female fitting / tap connector end

Not expensive but buy quality brand (WRAS aproved) not cheapo

New supplied hoses are compression fit, so connect to 15mm pipe with an olive and nut

If you fancy some plumbing and want to use supplied hoses, post a picture of what uv got and suggestions will be forthcoming, I’m sure

Do old hoses screw direct onto isolation valves ?

 

No! Seperate isolation valves everytime for me. Then whenever you have to do any work on the tap or replace the hose the iso valve stays in place.

 

That’s it Bob, compression fit on pipe end, should go straight into excising olive and nut (as long as fitting not over tightened and damaged)

Think I misunderstood fitting you had but uv got it

As you will have discovered, isolation valves on hot and cold would have been a nice luxury !

Not difficult to fit, not expensive, your just going to need a short length of pipe to connect hoses onto from valve

Good luck

 

OR buy the isolation valves with a flat face for the hose connection to mate against.

 

Have you found some? Was thinking the other day that something like that would be useful.

 

They have been on sale for some time now.

 

Will have to get some for stock - just hadn’t seen them before.

 

I think you can get them, but not from our hosts. We gave up buying them years ago because of cost (at least 3 times the price of a standard ISO as i remember). We use a diamond sharpening block (for chisels) to flatten one end, takes less than a min for each ISO.....................jobby jobbed