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I am going to buy one in the morning, it is the first i have heard about them, but will give them a go. I too was going to say just use stopends, but the point raised about being able to make water tight and leave the job til another time could be very useful, especially when you are knackered and it's late.
 
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Best thing Kibosh could do tbh, always good to get an impartial test of a product, i might hold off buying to see if he is willing, if he wasn't you would assume he was apprehensive about the quality of the product.
 
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gav8 said:
Best thing Kibosh could do tbh, always good to get an impartial test of a product, i might hold off buying to see if he is willing, if he wasn't you would assume he was apprehensive about the quality of the product.
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Agree
Let bod try one and he can give his honest view
 
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Dont bother if have got by without before why pay 15 of your hard earnt pounds for this gizmo. Maybe something a Diyer would want to be rotting in his shed.
 
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bod said:
I don't mind testing it , will make a video and put on here
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Lee, can you get a young female model with a thin white t shirt to try it out in the video?? of course the t shirt needs to get wet to show us how much water is leaking before the device gets closed over the pipe!

this is the sort of real life test id be interested in watching!! 🙂
 
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gav8 said:
Best thing Kibosh could do tbh, always good to get an impartial test of a product, i might hold off buying to see if he is willing, if he wasn't you would assume he was apprehensive about the quality of the product.
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I am totally confident in the Kibosh. I've spent the last 4 years developing it and I had it tested by BSI. It was put on new copper pipe, burst copper pipe, leaking solder fitting, PB barrier & single skin and PEX pipe at 6BAR 85C and 10BAR 20C for a week without leaking. They also tested a piece of burst pipe to see what pressure it would fail at and it reached 23.4BAR.

The wet T shirt comp has already been discussed though. Might have one at a trades show and have plumbers etc competing against the Kibosh girls for the Rothenberger Kibosh cup. I'm being serious!

Cheers guys!
 
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I am totally confident in the Kibosh. I've spent the last 4 years developing it and I had it tested by BSI. It was put on new copper pipe, burst copper pipe, leaking solder fitting, PB barrier & single skin and PEX pipe at 6BAR 85C and 10BAR 20C for a week without leaking. They also tested a piece of burst pipe to see what pressure it would fail at and it reached 23.4BAR.

The wet T shirt comp has already been discussed though. Might have one at a trades show and have plumbers etc competing against the Kibosh girls for the Rothenberger Kibosh cup. I'm being serious!

Cheers guys!
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Please inform us of dates, the wet t shirt competition is a serious experiment as far as I'm concerned.
 
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bod said:
so its been tested somewhere you have control and not out in the real world
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Yes independantly tested so was out of my hands, bit of a nervous week but passed first time! If it failed I'd have had to pay the whole thing again. I've used them, I'm a plumber. There are pics on the Kibosh facebook page in real situations. People are using them and we're getting good feedback. Please have a look at your local supplier. It's a good bit of kit! Cheers for all the comments, it's answering a lot of questions! Ross
 
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Gray0689 said:
Well not very good marketing if you would not let someone on this forum test it!!
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Exactly, who is going to go off and buy one now after reading this thread? not me any more. If he was confident in the product he would be falling over himself to get the product tested in the real world by real plumbers, he has lost all credibility now after making the effort to register and talk up his product.
 
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I like the principle of the idea but unless I new it worked then I'd not be buying it and the only way these kind of things sell is from recommendations from trades men imho
 
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Looks good Kibosh, are you distributing it to other suppliers like PTS, or is it just Screwfix.

If you market it well and we have a very cold Winter, you'll sell bucket loads.
 
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system3 said:
Looks good Kibosh, are you distributing it to other suppliers like PTS, or is it just Screwfix.

If you market it well and we have a very cold Winter, you'll sell bucket loads.
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Hi System 3, sorry for the late response. Been totally snowed under! Yes it's available at all the major retailers! Very handy in a bad winter, wouldn't wish a burst pipe on anybody, just want to hear more people saying it's done its job! Thanks for the comment!
 
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