Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

[PlumbBobBob]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

i guess you get a piece that hasn't been cut along it's length and as long as you have seperate taps and not a mixer, you can connect the cold and hot together and use your third hand to turn the taps on forcing the cold mains up the hot forcing out any air locks.

 

[kay-jay]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

i guess you get a piece that hasn't been cut along it's length and as long as you have seperate taps and not a mixer, you can connect the cold and hot together and use your third hand to turn the taps on forcing the cold mains up the hot forcing out any air locks.

Third hand...yes that and a trick foot are perhaps the biggest help in this game

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[Carl86]

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I normaly use a washing machine hose to get shot of airlocks, either end coupled up to the hot and cold on the valves and a quick blast through. A lad i used to graft with had a small tube with two rubber fittings that wraped round the outlet of taps.... like those naff shower hoses you could buy that hooks to a hot and cold tap on your bath except this didnt have the outlet for the shower. ive never seen any of them about though, was a very handy method, they just pushed on and pulled off once the airlock was sorted.

 

[Belly]

Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing.

When there's no drain offs I keep 1 of them self cutting taps handy that come with the DIY outside tap kits, strap it to abit of 15mm and away you go! Then while the system is drained just cut a tee in with a drain off where the hole is from the self cutting tap.

 

[Howsie]

Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing.

When there's no drain offs I keep 1 of them self cutting taps handy that come with the DIY outside tap kits, strap it to abit of 15mm and away you go! Then while the system is drained just cut a tee in with a drain off where the hole is from the self cutting tap.

We've had that one a couple of times now.

 

[Belly]

Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing.

Thought so, didn't fancy going through 28 pages to check though lol .

 

[Howsie]

Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing.

Thought so, didn't fancy going through 28 pages to check though lol .

Why not, you might have learnt something

 

[kay-jay]

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Why not, you might have learnt something

yeah, he might have learned his tip has been posted before :6:

 

[Belly]

Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing.

Just didn't have time to go through the whole thread . Never mind eh

 

[Mike Jackson]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

That's a shame because there's a tip in there somewhere that will save you hours and make you a fortune.

 

[tamz]

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Like keep out the bookies and there is no such thing as a certainty :wink:

 

[b.lynch plum]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Don't eat yellow snow!
5p and washer in a nut makes a 15 cap end

 

[Orry Clayton]

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Don't eat yellow snow!
5p and washer in a nut makes a 15 cap end

Try that one on a gas pipe?

 

[b.lynch plum]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Wot eating yellow snow lol

 

[Wotevaz]

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why what happened lol

 

[WHPES]

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Might have been mentioned before but different makes have slightly different size of 22mm overflow pipe. If you find your pipe won't go into a fitting, warm it up slightly with your torch and push it in. Likewise if you find it a bit slack for the fitting, warm it up and stretch it over a 22mm bending spring.

 

[REDSAW]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

buy a land rover for the snow

 

[erpkid]

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buy a land rover for the snow

Don't buy a Caddy Maxi !

 

[Whn1]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Here's one, Been doing it for years.
Stupid sized chrome waste pipe, wrap insulation tape around the end until you build. It upto 1"1/4 and then you can solvent weld it. Saves messing about with mcalpine fittings in walls etc.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

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every one plumber should have a land rover to be able to go out when all others can not

i know it has been said before but just found out my self ,so

 

[kay-jay]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

every one plumber should have a land rover to be able to go out when all others can not

i know it has been said before but just found out my self ,so

I think bod has a landrover

 

[SafeGasInstall]

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Does he ??? Pmsl

 

[Dannypipe]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Here's one, Been doing it for years.
Stupid sized chrome waste pipe, wrap insulation tape around the end until you build. It upto 1"1/4 and then you can solvent weld it. Saves messing about with mcalpine fittings in walls etc.

This is a new one to me.....so what you're saying is the insulation tape will melt with the solvent glue and you get a decent watertight joint with it? How on earth this you discover this? Does it really work, I take it you've had no problems with it?

This may come in handy, and I'm gonna have to try it myself.

 

[Terry_the_piper]

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Always ptfe your olives.

 

[Mike Jackson]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Not necessary. There's been loads of discussions about it on here, have a search.