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janeyfitz | 14:56 Fri 27th Jun 2014 | How it Works
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HI I would like to buy a bathroom in the uk and take to Holland to fit (much cheaper) . does anyone know if the pipe fittings are compatible-thinking size etc?
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Fittings should be metric and therefore compatible.

Not many Dutch folk source their bathrooms/kitchens in The Netherlands, they buy from Germany which is cheaper and more convenient.

Bathroom fittings are really not that expensive is it worth the hassle?
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many thanks for that-we can buy a floating loo here for £150 or less and yet in Holland they start at 600euros!!!
I can't see how there would be a problem. You should be able to fit a bathroom suite anywhere, there is a myriad of fittings to choose from nowadays.

Just looked on Ebay/Holland and they sell these http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Worldwide-15mm-22mm-Copper-Pipe-Slice-Tube-Cutter-Set-/251351183956?pt=UK_DIY_Materials_Plumbing_MJ&;hash=item3a85b2b254&_uhb=1

Seems a good sign.
The floating loo might be 150, have you checked the cost of the fittings?

They're not as straight forward as you MIT think and if you are seeing high prices it may be because they are a package.....
Yes, they're metric, but sometimes slightly different sizes. With copper pipe you may find 14mm or 16mm where we use 15mm.

Waste pipe sizes as well. Our 32mm may be 30mm. Similar discrepancies with 40mm waste.

No matter though. For waste ......... take a few "wind-up" straight jointers. (The type that screw up by hand, as in a sink waste.) They can take up a little slack.

For copper, pipe san be "swaged" to make it take a larger diameter inside it. (Conical shaped thingy that you hammer up yer pipe.)

You'll be fine. The local merchants may well have adaptors. They're far more "euro savvy than we are.
It's the bracket/frame system that is causing me concern.

I just hope that the full deal is being accounted for.
Do you mean the concealed cistern, Eccles?

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