When we moved into our house there was a nice new dishwasher under the counter. Unfortunately it was not hooked up, and even more unfortunately our under-sink plumbing did not have the attachments for running the water lines. Which has also meant that our new refrigerator didn’t have water for drinking or ice making. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
The plumbing for the sink in these old houses runs straight up inside the wall and then makes a 90 degree bend and comes straight out the wall and into the faucet. Newer plumbing comes out under the sink at a shut off valve and the a hose brings water from the valve up to the sink. Well since we wanted to keep the original faucet, we decided to add a T in the lines in the wall and add a set of shut off valves.<\/p>\n
The wall was already cut open from my garbage disposal installation (see previous post) and so I already had access to the pipes. Installing these valves was a simpe matter of shutting off the water to the house, cutting the supply lines and removing the top section. Then using a screw-tighten coupler, I added the T and new top section without having to cut new pipe threads on the lower section. No problem. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
This will all be replaced with new copper tubing when we do the plumbing for the bathrooms.<\/p>\n
Yay, dishwasher! Yay, ice maker! Yay, cold filtered water! Yay, sink sprayer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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