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You and your contest 🙂 show me some of your installs darling I'd be really curious
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Good or bad idea - would you like it and be Interested in?
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Steady on old boy, that could stir up a hornets nest. I’ll rephrase that for you ‘ I don’t do cheap( I use press fittings) and a I strive to do a quality job.... ‘ as do most folk who use a blow torch too’
There....all re-phrased🙂
My point is Ron if they don’t have the budget why are you not offering to solder it for them then you could meet insulation requirements and still be quids in I’m missing the point I don’t believe any customer is going to choose more expensive fittings over saving money by insulating
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Sharp Point
I don’t really take pictures anymore, especially of boilers. I’ve put 1000’s in over the years ( spent years contracting) the novelty wore off, many many moons ago.
And you really do need to read your messages before you post as you are implying that you do a better job than everybody else just because you use pressfit
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Old Account
I'm not saying you doing a crap job and doing using cheap materials... but if you feel
I am not saying you don't do quality jobs or use cheap materials but if you feel spoke to ... 😉 perhaps you should not try to see the bad things but taking things a little easier. We are talking about some fittings and so on ... you k ow for certain what I mean and did not mean anything different so stop trying to twist things
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Old Account
I get your point riley
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That's only the people who feel spoken to. I am not implying anything but said that I am offering quality work. There is no need to misunderstand me again as you all know that's not what I meant
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Sharp Point
I’m not twisting things, I’m trying to make light of the way you say things, because the way you write can be taken the completely wrong way Ron.
Making statements of pressfit is safer, last longer etc etc is bold. I think sometimes you forget that you’re on a plumbing heating and gas forum, surrounded by chaps who’ve probably been doing this 45+ years. I think we know what’s good and isn’t ..... if you get me.
When you post, be prepared to be questioned and analysed
Saying you do quality not cheap implying that anyone that anyone using end feed is cheap. It’s not a case of misreading or misinterpreting it’s in black and white. The real comparison was you do more expensive whilst others do cheaper the opposite of quality is poor quality
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Sharp Point
Can we put it down to his lack of English language and inability to express what he actually means. We don’t want another ‘vaillaht servicing’ debacle.....
You’re all missing the point and gone off track a little. @ShaunCorbs was simply pointing out that you @Matchless.plumb from the picture you posted have used a Mapress water fitting on a gas pipe and then rather than say sound, I’ll look into that and get back to you. Decide to dig your heels in as usual and baffle everyone with stuff that has nothing to do with the relevant point. It was a point to stop you from getting into trouble at a later date not a Critisism. It was an advisory to say you may want to go back and change it for a gas one.
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Old Account
Don't you worry @bogrodder wo t happen. I'm out
I think this might be the one @Matchless.plumb? You see how it has yellow seals and a painted yellow mark on the fitting? FYI
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Old Account
Mapress have you heard about viega
Yes mate and they look nothing like that.
How come they don’t look the same ?
I suspect no gas rating but I hope I’m wrong
I suspect no gas rating but I hope I’m wrong
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Old Account
Really, you think my fittings are mapress? I'll proof you wrong
I’m saying that they look like mapress. I didn’t say they were 100%
Ron, honestly mate there is no need to be so defensive, people are only trying to help each other on here if there is a chance that you’ve fitted a water fitting on the gas by mistake would you rather not know ?? Would you not be better off calling the customer and saying you think you’ve left a tool behind or something and just checking, surely its better to do that than carry on blindly. Nobody is trying to catch anyone out or make anyone look silly I think I speak for everyone on here that nobody wants to see one of our regular contributors get stung by Gas Safe for something so silly
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Old Account
Yes of course, but there is also no need to put always people's work down is there. I'm not being awkward but I know what i am using for materials. However, I guess we should leave it again. No point of bombarding each other with nonsense.
Yes mate. That is a box of viega fittings. I agree. But that isn’t the Tee that you have fitted on the gas run and them tees have a black seal
Inside which means the packaging will have a green dot on and not yellow.
Inside which means the packaging will have a green dot on and not yellow.
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Old Account
You clearly said that my fittings dont look like viega and all I did was uploading a picture of some sealed fittings. Is pointless to talk as you all stick together so I better be quiet.
No I didn’t! For the second time. I’m going to post this picture, which you seem to be ignoring on purpose. This is the fitting we are on about not the copper fittings.
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Old Account
Thats a viega fitting not a mapress
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Old Account
Thata fine
No one is debating its viega it’s not marked for gas
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Old Account
It was marked but when you polish pipes and fittings you rub the yellow and green stamps off especially when using brasso.
I am! it doesn’t look like a viega gas tee. This is a viega gas tee. It has yellow dots and says viega on it.
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Old Account
To be really precise even if you used water fittings it would be physically better than a solder fitting. First of all the temperature difference is unique.. the solder will start melting about 185c but the o ring can withstand higher temperature as they are high efficiency o rings same as for gas 630c for 30min your solder is in seconds gone and will cause problems. Furthermore the fittings can withstand higher pressure than soldered joints. 15 -100bar ... let me check 10 properties in UK with 50 bat and I will show you how good your soldering is you cannot beat technology
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