Finch Street
Cottage kitchen plumbing
Overview
A cottage kitchen in deep green joinery, with a brass bridge mixer over a sink set into the timber bench and the cooktop beside it. The old pipes ran along an outside wall, so every new line came up through the floor, out of sight and off that wall.
The pipes used to run along the outside wall and knocked every time a tap shut. Now everything comes up through the floor, the mixer sits dead centre on the sink, and the valves are exactly where they said.
Project Details
A bridge mixer is only as good as what sits under it. With Tarnwood Builders we ran new copper for the hot and cold under the floor, set both risers to the mixer’s centres before the joiner cut the bench, and left the isolating valves behind a cupboard door where the owners can reach them.
A sink set into timber needs its cut edges sealed before anything else, so we fitted the waste and its trap with the joiner, not after him.
The dishwasher shares the sink’s trap through a high loop, and every joint under the bench was pressure tested before the doors went on.
