Kitchen tap internal pipe disconnected with no slack
Internal pipes connected to faucet cartridges often lack any slack once pulled loose, making it nearly impossible to reach behind and reattach them. This leaves you unable to reconnect the plumbing without taking the entire fixture apart or pulling extra line from below the sink.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1buying a replacement tap
- 2Replacing old valves and fittings instead of reusing them during the repipe.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Plumbing2 people · September 2026
“I am planning a replumb of my house. Is it safe to assume these brass fittings are all either 1/2" or 3/4" NPT?”source ↗
MustardMan007 · r/Plumbing · 1 upvotes
Where this came up
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