Mums Council [1] Bungalow, just removed old washer ready for delivery of a new one later today. Behind the washer is a maze of plumbing, coldwater mains inlet for the house, then a tee to cold tap with a further tee coming off it for the washer, another tee coming off it that's capped and yet another tee coming off to an outside tap. Hot water tap piping has a tee for the washer, another capped tee, and another tee going into the ceiling to one knows not where. All the joints look reasonable except the washer joints which are push-fit plastic and rotate as you move the pipes. They're all old, some, indeed, look concurrent with the original bungalow construction of ~40 odd years.
So the question ... Is it as straightforward as it looks, stop tap at floor level before any of the tees, to simply turn water off, remove rats nest of piping and re-do with a lot fewer and newer copper pipes and fittings?
Looks to me that all I need is a blowtorch and solder ... or pre-soldered fittings, but I've never done much plumbing before.
[1] Council say it's all OK and won't touch it, but it looks a right mess to my, albeit untrained, eye. Mum claims it gets wet, but that doesn't look like the pipework to me, more an airbrick that is getting wet from a blocked gutter. :)