Move Stop Valve , possible ?

June1971

Hi,
    We are in the process of installing/designing a new kitchen.
However as per our design the current position of Stop Valve is a bit inconvenient. Sure you have heard this before.
Anyway, the stop valve is located into the kitchen under the sink and rises from below. It needs to be moved left by about 10 cm. Picture attached.

Is this possible ? Of course. the kitchen will be fully dismantled when this is done. How much will it cost approximately  ?

Thanks and regards,

June

Flugelhorn

the chap who did our kitchen moved the stop tap / water pipe  because it was actually in the middle of the cupboard - it was an extra and he charged £80

grumpy_codger

June1971 said:

Hi,
    We are in the process of installing/designing a new kitchen.
However as per our design the current position of Stop Valve is a bit inconvenient. Sure you have heard this before.
Anyway, the stop valve is located into the kitchen under the sink and rises from below. It needs to be moved left by about 10 cm. Picture attached.

Is this possible ? Of course. the kitchen will be fully dismantled when this is done. How much will it cost approximately  ?

Thanks and regards,

June

Moving left inside the cabinet is doable, but involves extra fittings that won't be protected by the stop valve.
Moving under the cabinet is more problematic. It involves cutting the blue pipe (that I personally wouldn't want to do) and again extra fittings. 
If the pipe is laid under the floor perpendicularly to the wall, you can move the valve by breaking smallish area of the floor around and bending the pipe to the side.

TELLIT01

Is the kitchen floor timber or concrete?  If timber is should be a fairly simple job as long as the external stop tap can actually be turned off.  When we had work done to our kitchen they had to call in the local water company as that tap was seized solid.

A solid floor could be more problematic as it may need to be partially dug up to access the pipe.  This is assuming there is not going to be a cabinet to the right of the internal stop tap.

grumpy_codger

TELLIT01 said:

... This is assuming there is not going to be a cabinet to the right of the internal stop tap.

I don't understand this bit.

June1971

Hi All,
        Many thanks to all for your kind advice. 
So the reason I have to move it to the left is because in the new plan the washing machine which is currently to the right of this cabinet will move left by 10 CM. 
So I need move this stop valve to left  so that a washing machine can fit in this space.

I checked the floor, its concrete.

Attaching more pictures, see below. The second image shows the situation under the kitchen base unit. 
The blue pipe rising from the floor and the white waste pipe going into some large pipe

Thanks,
June

grumpy_codger

First question is whether there is space behind the WM to accomodate the blue pipe without the valve. If so, you can fit an elbow instead of the valve and move the valve to the left.
If there is no space, then the only option is to break the slab, see what's under and then think about the best way of moving the valve. It's not that big job as it may look at first glance.
In my new house the pipe under the slab was parallel to the wall and I was able to move the valve (and the water meter) closer to the wall simply by bending the pipe.

molerat

It looks like the waste may be a bigger problem, is there enough space to accommodate the set in concrete 100mm soil pipe with the new cabinet moved to the left ?