Pipe repair product...

[AlexGas]

I'm not in a hurry to buy these. What are your thoughts on this one?

Burkett Innovative Solutions sees sales soar after securing patent - Liverpool Echo

http://click-fix.co/


[video=youtube;H_Z0v2tc1F8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H_Z0v2tc1F8[/video]

 

[drip-dry]

He missed out were you then turn the pipe round and place another wonder fitting on the other side were the screw went through the bottom tooooooo!!!!..


:45:....the industry has waited so long for this

 

[townfanjon]

He sounds more like a scally , anyway , he isn't even a proper plumber, he has hair !!!

 

[JCplumb]

It might come in handy, I've seen situations where that would be the part for the job.
Doubt I'd buy any unless they worked out to be the cheaper option, you have to empty the pipe of water so might aswell cut a section out and use a couple of end feed couplers.

 

[rpm]

It might come in handy, I've seen situations where that would be the part for the job.
Doubt I'd buy any unless they worked out to be the cheaper option, you have to empty the pipe of water so might aswell cut a section out and use a couple of end feed couplers.

Think there was still water in the pipe but the water was isolated. If you apply the "Magic" compound with the brush in and around the flame like he was then the brush ain`t gonna last long.

 

[JCplumb]

Think there was still water in the pipe but the water was isolated. If you apply the "Magic" compound with the brush in and around the flame like he was then the brush ain`t gonna last long.

Maybe, but nothing came out when he made the hole and that pipe stayed hissing for a good while after he turned the heat off so my guess is the pipe was empty, if it worked on a live pipe that would make it much more useful. However it's just a soldered fitting so I doubt it.
And yeah, he must go through a good few flux brushes

 

[rpm]

Sorry JC thought you meant completly empty of water.

 

[Riley]

If it's dry why would we not just cut out the pipe and repair?????

 

[Chalked]

Must go through a tin of flux per fitting!

 

[Meady]

I don't think he's no plumber, took him forever to solder half a fitting

 

[Gray0689]

That's is the most useless thing I have seen in a long time lol

 

[Mike Jackson]

With the amount of flux he smeared over the pipe it will only be a temporary repair, the pipe will rot through in no time. What's wrong with cutting the pipe and using a slip coupling? Be quicker and cheaper than mucking about with that "fitting".

 

[DrainMedic]

What a load of old ****e.

He needs a new watch if he honestly thinks that took 'seconds'!

It it would be quicker to cut a section out and would the. Look like a proper repair rather than a DIY job. I'd fully expect to have my head kicked in if I used one of those with my customers! And deservedly so!

We should each challenge the chap to a race to how long it would take versus a proper repair, and then put the pipe under a floor, with some wood shavings between the joints and a stray woodbine packet, then put some water in the pipe to see how long it takes for steam in the pipe to blow the patch off before the solder cools.

Im not a fan of scousers. I went out with one once and she neglected to inform me of her monthly condition! All over my head it was!

 

[Ermintrude]

Use a slice right on the puncture hole. U have to snap the last bit of pipe. Then ram on a Yorkie straight . But try not to sodder from the next postcode.

 

[plumben]

by the time you the diy'er has bought the fixing patch, 10 tubs of flux a blow lamp and 4 bottles of gas to soldier it up a mile away you might as well pay me to do a proper fix oh and spent an hour cleaning the pipe up once its corroded up

 

[newcastle phill]

Maybe, but nothing came out when he made the hole and that pipe stayed hissing for a good while

Gas pipe ?????

 

[stevetheplumber]

whats wrong with soldering a patch if the pipe is that dry

 

[AlexGas]

Blimey! 4.50 each!

CLICK FIX copper pipe repair patch, 15mm | eBay

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

I always like to see innovative solutions at problems that occur but this is not a good enough solution

When using a solder ring fitting, I know the solder has run properly as I can see it all the way around the joint. To this on this fitting would very difficult as the majority of the solder is visible on the other side of the where the hole is.

He uses a lot of solder and a lot of flux (I am sure he must have burnt most of that brush away).

We had a old thread where someone recommended using half of an olive and soldering it in place. No one was keen on that. This is just an exaggeration of that.

It winds me up that they sell it as the ideal solution to fix a leak in place that is not easily accessible but then it is filmed on a loose piece of pipe that he spins round to check that the solder has run