I will be in the 90 so wave and hoot
I will be in the 90 so wave and hoot
Get Stan in to sort it, he loves plumberin'Had to back fill my house water system as it had low pressure cause the tank isnt raised up, its
fine for ages then if you have the bath running & the kitchen tap running the pressure goes down
slowly. Bath panel off tis a heavy feckn thing too, join the hot & cold water feeds together then
back fill the hot pipes with cold & then open the taps one at a time.
I will need to fit a hot water pump into the thing feckn plumbers are w@nkers no isolating valves
at the tank it was the only part I didnt fit
Couple of cans of pipe freeze it will be then fit a pump & isolators. Now I need to look into pumps.pfff
It's sorted then, @Stanleysteamer will be along shortly with a free V8 and sort your plumbing out. It will be a long walk home though.....Good call he can bring that V8 disco that he promised me.
I'll stick an advert for pick up a stray on lz courier, or a hairyasstrucker
Tis feckin nippy out.
Started my plumberin. God I hate it.
Within about 5 minutes I hit a problem I'd never met before.
To isolate the sink I am about to take out I got a selection of offcuts of copper and PEX pipe together, along with pushfit isolator valves and one odd compression fit one I happened to have around.
Found a handy short length of copper with an olive on the end. (The plumbing I am going to be working with under/behind the sink has a lot of comp fittings on it.)
Thought, " I'll put a push fit isolator on the end of that after putting the nut on then I can undo a pipe, tighten the stubby bit onto the fitting, make sure the isolator is turned to "off" and that'll be that. One down one to go.
So I did exactly that, then test fitted the fitting onto a spare fitting and found that the bloody olive on the off cut was moving, ever so slightly. Not along the pipe, but in a circular direction. Only a couple of mm. did the usual bodger's thing, tightened it a bit further, no difference.
So I thought,
Having tried the usual thing to get a push-fit fitting off, no dice.
Got ont internet. "No with that make you wont do it"
So, sh!t or bust, took the fitting into the garage, put it in the vice, tightened an adjustable around the pipe then pushed down on it to push the collar back into the fitting, it moved but I couldn't pull the stub of pipe off.
Then, as the bit with the wonky olive was so close to the fitting I tried prying the nut and olive, attached to the pipe upwards, against the adjustable, while still shoving down on the adjustable.
Very slowly it started to move. Eventually it came off.
Thank the Lord.
What a complete pain!
So I'm now a bit hyper about the selection of off-cuts I've got especially the ones with olives already on them.
Now this is one of the problems with my condition, namely Yorkshiremantightarsitis.
I will have to use a fresh bit of pipe, prolly PEX, and hunt around for new olives etc.
CBA today.
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That just looks like a lid on what could be a great big bbq
J
You really need to admit that plumbering winds you up and get a “man” into do it
You could drink wine and supervise
J
Spoke too soon
A clean one, who does the job propah!!!No ptfe tape ffs what sort of plumberer are ye
I share your pain!Had to back fill my house water system as it had low pressure cause the tank isnt raised up, its
fine for ages then if you have the bath running & the kitchen tap running the pressure goes down
slowly. Bath panel off tis a heavy feckn thing too, join the hot & cold water feeds together then
back fill the hot pipes with cold & then open the taps one at a time.
I will need to fit a hot water pump into the thing feckn plumbers are w@nkers no isolating valves
at the tank it was the only part I didnt fit
Couple of cans of pipe freeze it will be then fit a pump & isolators. Now I need to look into pumps.pfff
You are so feckin generous!!!!!Cant have him walking home
might be willing to give him a ride..
It is only the fact I don't do enough of it to feel relaxed about it. Electrics frinstance I absolutely don't give a cr@p about, i just get on wiv it. Plus leaking watter is a messy pain in the bum. electric not workin is never a big deal. I plumbed in everything in our place in Frogland with their funny PEX stuff. No sweat. so I am making a bit more of a fuss than is necessary!.You really need to admit that plumbering winds you up and get a “man” into do it
You could drink wine and supervise
J
