If you add a pedestal sink to a bathroom and you can see the cutoff valve under the sink. How do you decorate the copper coming out of the wall to the valves.
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Use an escutchen plate ( I'm not sure about the spelling). To get really fancy, sand the copper pipe, apply flux then solder to it's surface, then wipe off with a wet rag. This will make the pipe look like it is silver. Of course the pipe must be completely empty of water first.
Have a good day
Cliffy
Cover with a thin candy shell ... er, I mean, one of those chromed pipes designed to fit around a smaller pipe. You see them all the time when you're standing there peeing into a urinal.
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Edited 7/15/2007 10:02 pm by DanH
Edited 7/15/2007 10:03 pm by DanH
I attach a 1x4 horizontally from stud-to-stud; set back 2-3/4" (against the otherside DW with 2x4 walls). Then a brass drop-ear elbow, usually with a Shark-Bite coupling on the bottom; could be a sweat-on; but 1/2" NPT female on the horizontal leg.
Screw in a 1/2" X 4" pipe nipple through a rough 1" hole in the finish wall. Can get brass, polished brass, chrome, or now brushed nickel at Lowes. This is assuming 1/2" DW as finish wall - move the 1X4 in appropriately for thicker finish wall (tile).
Get an escutcheon to match the nipple finish, and thread on a stop in the also-matching finish. I almost always use 1/4-turn metal angle stops with 3/8" compression exits, and then use the braided stainless risers.
Good thing about this is it can take a hard hit and not leak, and you can unscrew and change the finish later.
Whew!
easier done than said.
Forrest - not a plumber
Another option - use a Brasscraft shut-off valve and the cover plate they supply. ~$9. at your local supplier or big box. Have only seen for 1/2" copper.
Available as a 1/4 turn or multiple turn shut-off valve. Both models have a length of chrome plated copper pipe attached which you cut to the required length. Clean inside of attached pipe, flux, slip over the copper stub from the wall and sweat.
I usually take the guts out of the valve before sweating to avoid overheating the washers, etc.
Note: Make sure you slip the cover plate on the valve/pipe assembly before sweating....don't ask why I included this note.
Jim
Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
chrome plated pipe nipples are readily available. I use an internal pipe wrench to get them tight so I don't scar the surface.