HELP! Cannot detach water supply line

[jboggin]

Hi, I'm brand new to the whole DIY plumbing thing, and I'm trying to replace my bathroom faucet (I'm a new home owner). I started to remove the old bathroom faucet, and everything was going well until it came time to detach the water supply line. The sink I'm removing is a ball faucet, and the only place to remove the supply lines is at the shut-off valve. However, I'm finding it impossible to remove the lines from the supply valve. I'm not even sure it's possible because it seems to be completely attached. Could anyone give me any advice on how to proceed? I want to just get rid of these supply lines and replace them, but I can't get them unattached at all. I'm including links to the pictures of my problem, so hopefully that will help. I'm at a complete loss here

img 1: http://imgur.com/2jbR4,kiHq8,KEP8O#0
img 2: http://imgur.com/2jbR4,kiHq8,KEP8O#1
img 3: http://imgur.com/2jbR4,kiHq8,KEP8O#2

Thanks in advance!

 

[johnjh2o]

It looks like someone removed the compression nus and soldered the supply lines to the valve. Your going to have to cut the supply's and replace the valves.


John

 

[jboggin]

Oh, I forgot to do this earlier, but I want to thank everyone for their help. I'm new to this, and I would have been lost without this forum. I ended up finishing the job because of the advice I got on here.

I still don't know why the original plumber soldered everything together. I definitely wouldn't have known how to deal with it.

Thanks again to everyone!

 

[phishfood]

It's good to hear that this forum was of help to you, thanks for checking back in.