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[hammers4spanner]

What an end to the day i had plodding my way through the morning and get a call about one o clock emergency water pouring through ceiling . Blew electrics in the kitchen and ceiling had come down by time i arrived hour or so later. Eventually traced pipe back to a soldered fitting that had randomly blown straight off !!!!!

Half wrecked the bathroom tho trying to find it like hidden behind tiles , plywood and then chipboard.

Fair amount of whack for it tho !!

 

[Rickster123]

What did you cut that chipboard with? Your teeth?! Gotta love a Friday earner!

 

[hammers4spanner]

What did you cut that chipboard with? Your teeth?! Gotta love a Friday earner!

Got fed up sawing so pulled out the peter sutcliffe special

 

[Phil]

Why did it pop out hammers? was in a 3/4 in a 22mm straight that hadn't quite taken?

 

[hammers4spanner]

No mate was 15 mm but pressure in house was mental.

 

[Rickster123]

New combi?

 

[anz]

That wouldn't have happened with plastic ;-)

 

[hammers4spanner]

New combi?

i wish lol

 

[plumben]

Was there any signs of a bad joint

 

[hammers4spanner]

Nope all looked well soldered just blew clean off

 

[Best]

Only times that can happen is if the joint hasn't been soldered properly, or, in the most rarest thing I have ever seen - severe freezing like in 2010 winter which expanded fittings and broke the solder

 

[Best]

The solder looks a bit iffy, although have seen worse.
That couldn't have just blown off if solder intact. Wonder did it suffer freeze damage from previous winters and just blow off now?

 

[hammers4spanner]

Its an internal pipe in bathroom boxing fully soldered and no chance of it being frozen , literally blew off at midday today i would say over the years solder has weakened imho.

 

[on31ll]

Got fed up sawing so pulled out the peter sutcliffe special

I laughed really hard at this !

 

[Best]

Its an internal pipe in bathroom boxing fully soldered and no chance of it being frozen , literally blew off at midday today i would say over the years solder has weakened imho.

That winter of 2010 froze pipes well inside a house I went to that heating hadn't been turned on. The joints were Yorkshire and professionally fully soldered 100%. Solder just must have split apart when fitting expanded. So it can happen.
On your job, it might have been the flux originally used damaged the solder. Solder can go weak with those acid fluxes. That's why I never use them

 

[tolly]

Got fed up sawing so pulled out the peter sutcliffe special

I thought you had used an alligator

 

[Nostrum]

He'd lent me his alligator that day, Sod's law.

 

[Leo21]

This can happen if the joint is disturbed before it cools properly.

 

[jtsplumbing]

H'o the joy of stupid high water pressure in the Plymouth area, problems it causes around here !!

 

[jtsplumbing]

That wouldn't have happened with plastic ;-)

Totally agree never get plastic fittings blow off ! Well according to manufactures anyway !!

 

[WaterTight]

Each of us probably has about 500 joints out there sitting somewhere on the scale between never going to leak and going to leak today. A small percentage may be potential blow-off fodder. Even with good workmanship it's all a little bit of a gamble.

 

[firemant]

This can happen if the joint is disturbed before it cools properly.

+ 1

 

[gassafe]

Maybe some really bad water hammer has taken its effect over the years...

 

[gassafe]

I guess you quoted a PRV?

 

[hammers4spanner]

I guess you quoted a PRV?

Nope repair now down to their insurance