Burst pipe under screed mystery

[SimonG]

It's one of those filed under **** happens.

 

[Scott_D]

What warranty do you offer?
I think I would repair the leak for free but that’s about it

 

[Harvest Fields]

Hi Riley, yes basically what is most likely to have caused the leak/caused the joint to fail?

Did your contractor put the pipes in the screed? For the radiator?

 

[Daniel Adams]

My warranty is if it fails in an unreasonable time and causes damage I'll make it right, unless I can point to a manufacturing fault that it is clear and beyond my control. In this case I know what Hep would say when I tell then the joint was under the screed.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Did your contractor put the pipes in the screed? For the radiator?

 

[Daniel Adams]

Hi Harvest, yes the original pipework is in the screed, my plumber jointed it in copper to Hep then along the ground and up into new rad, all break out then covered in new screed.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Hi Harvest, yes the original pipework is in the screed, my plumber jointed it in copper to Hep then along the ground and up into new rad, all break out then covered in new screed.

Can you cut a proper channel in to the screed for the pipework?

 

[Daniel Adams]

As a fix I'm going to go back to the boiler and bring two new flow and return down a stud wall to get to the radiator and leave the original copper pipes capped in the screed, which in hindsight is what should have been done in the first place although considerably more work. I also definitely would have done this originally if I had known it was a one pipe system as I don't understand them. However that still leaves me curious about why it failed.

 

[Harvest Fields]

As a fix I'm going to go back to the boiler and bring two new flow and return down a stud wall to get to the radiator and leave the original copper pipes capped in the screed, which in hindsight is what should have been done. However that still leaves me curious about why it failed.

Don’t use compression.

 

[Rob Foster]

Would you "walk away" from one of your jobs Rob?

never ever even if it cost me £'s all I saw was BG ..chking