Plumbing my Kitchen Tap and Grey Water Tank | Van Plumbing | DIY Sprinter Van Conversion UK

This would have been a nice and simple job if I hadn’t of been a cheapskate and bought myself and extremely cheap tap. After hooking it up, it decided to leak everywhere and flood my kitchen cupboard.
I binned the tap and spent a little more money on a new one and it works a charm!
I don’t have hot water coming through my tap so I just plumbed both the hot and cold hoses straight to some 12mm hose using a T-connector.
For my grey water tank, I had a bit of an excess of waste pipe so I fashioned a very funny looking U-bend but it does the job nicely.
If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below.
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Materials used:
12mm Water Pipe - amzn.eu/d/cSIVE2Z
Ball Valve - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394023700114
T-Connector - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185027959815
20mm Pipe Clips - amzn.eu/d/9JWO7au
12mm Jubilee Clips x8 - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281955639394
Grey water tank - amzn.eu/d/3hui12z
Waste Pipe - amzn.eu/d/9UmjCoX
40mm Pipe Clips - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333166748368
TOTAL: £78.13
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - The plan
2:13 - Making T-junction
3:20 - Drilling hole
3:50 - Connecting to water system
5:09 - Fitting waste pipe
7:25 - Testing

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  • @niallbrady187
    @niallbrady1873 ай бұрын

    Can you put a link up for your kitchen units in IKEA. I just can't find them here in Ireland they are very expensive. Thanks Niall (Ireland)

  • @GreenHornCountryClub

    @GreenHornCountryClub

    3 ай бұрын

    Hey dude, there should be a full list of items used in the description of my kitchen installation video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dICZk8qrZpbUo8Y.htmlsi=471hOws0CFyBsxHF

  • @gondaft
    @gondaft Жыл бұрын

    Hiya, just watched this back to back with your water pump installation guide. well explained in both, particularly interested in the wiring. your pump fitting vid, was explained well enough, (even for me) but you didn't show any electrical fitting for your sink? does it run through the same pipe work as the shower, so that when you turn whichever on, the pumps pushes it through to whichever has the open flow? (tap turned on) I am currently refitting the electrics in my van and can't work out what goes where, the previous fitting was less than ideal shall we say and I would like to get it right. Thanks in advance.👍

  • @GreenHornCountryClub

    @GreenHornCountryClub

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey thanks so much! So with the tap, there’s no electrics involved, I also haven’t plumbed any hot water through the tap either. I have the same water pipe connected to both the hot and cold inlet pipes of the tap (using a T connector), then whenever I want to use my tap, I just switch on the water pump which creates pressure in the system so that water will come out whenever I open the tap. I hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have any other questions 👍🏼

  • @chrisholliday1330

    @chrisholliday1330

    Ай бұрын

    I was really hoping to see how the heck you're turning on the HotTap pump. So much info missing. Also can the hot be ran on a split or is there wiring in the hose for the Hot Tap

  • @gondaft
    @gondaft Жыл бұрын

    Ok, so at the risk of going on a lot, here goes.. I currently have both a shower and sink, fed separately with both hot and cold. I have just had to go outside to check, I have one line out of the pump, it splits and goes on to the cold feed and a T-piece up to the boiler. Having never yet used it, I am wondering now if when I turn on the water, at say the sink (mixer tap) how does the feed 'know I want hot or cold, as it connects to the pump to start the flow, which then flows along the line that splits off to my boiler and off through the cold feed with nothing to stop either flow? I will get a similar reaction for the shower which also has a mixer style 'tap'. This will surely send water both down the cold feed and up into the boiler and so fire the boiler up? If you can make sense of this, I applaud you, I have just confused the hell out of myself. (not difficult)🙄

  • @GreenHornCountryClub

    @GreenHornCountryClub

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m not 100% sure on this to be honest as I haven’t really looked into using a boiler in the van, my water system is extremely simplified. As far as I understand it though, you’ve got your water pipe coming out the pump and splitting off two ways - one hot water line and one cold water line. The hot water line going into the boiler then coming out and feeding into your tap and shower, whereas the cold water line bypasses the boiler and feeds separately into the tap and shower. The pump itself will always be creating pressure in both the hot and cold line so water will always be ready flow out both the hot and cold line of the tap and shower when you turn it on. Depending on what mixer tap you have you’ll be able control exactly how much hot or cold you want or both at the same time.

  • @gondaft

    @gondaft

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GreenHornCountryClub My water feed pipe comes out of the pump, then Tees off up to the boiler, and straight on as the cold feed, this is what has got me thinking, whichever I turn on, shower or sink will both activate the water pump regardless of if I want hot or cold water as it will push the water along the pipe and I presume up to the boiler and straight along the cold feed at the same time, there is no obvious way (to me) of splitting the water feed out of the pump so that it doesn't. At present there is a switch near the shower to activate the pump when needed for the shower, and the mixer tap at the sink has a micro switch that activates when I turn that on, I can't see choosing hot or cold making any difference as it is a simple left or right turn for one or the other. None of it has been tried or tested as yet, and at the moment I am awaiting some more wire. After seeing your video, I realise I need to give both switches some thought, so I will either make them entirely separate from each other, or wire them better than they seem to be at the moment into the same circuit (if possible) watch this space😁

  • @jordan22.85
    @jordan22.857 ай бұрын

    Do you have link or know what size them male connectors what joint the hot and cold tap together?

  • @GreenHornCountryClub

    @GreenHornCountryClub

    7 ай бұрын

    The T-connectors were 12mm. I’ve found another link below: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354897802681

  • @jordan22.85

    @jordan22.85

    7 ай бұрын

    @@GreenHornCountryClub thank you 👍

  • @jordan22.85

    @jordan22.85

    7 ай бұрын

    What the bit called you screw in to hot and cold pipes to connect to hose can't find them anywhere?

  • @GreenHornCountryClub

    @GreenHornCountryClub

    7 ай бұрын

    @@jordan22.85 these guys? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225255702194

  • @jordan22.85

    @jordan22.85

    7 ай бұрын

    @GreenHornCountryClub there the ones , thank you for your help