Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

[solutions]

Killy you beat me to it.

 

[Ermintrude]

Had new lad notch out joists, he started and I stopped him. Was only going to leave 5mm of joist.

Ok so this is what I showed him. You need rip snorter, bendinding guide for size of tube u need to notch out for, hammer and a pointy sharp thing.


Remove board

Run saw with blade set at pipe thickness plus 3mm

Run saw so guide is against adjacent board

Cut all joists needed

Next put guide between edge of board and side of snorter.... Cuts hole with 3mm gap either side.

Then simply whack notch with hammer and tidy with sharp thing.

 

[TBServices]

That means taking up 2 boards! Good tip though

 

[Ermintrude]

No u can also set snorter to pipe plus board, just use old board as a straight edge on top. For two 15mm use two guides or slice pipe slice

 

[Ermintrude]

Only lifted two as offset further up

 

[acecharly]

You need to give him a junior hackjsaw he will soon stop cutting so deep then lol

 

[Kyle87]

Become friends with a carpet fitter. Their business is in and out fast as they can and on to the next. So they see a lot of people per day........the "do you know a plumber?" Question is often popped out when tradesmen are in someone's house.

Also they change their knife blade like every ten mins. Their bluntest blades are still sharper than anything in a plumbers tool box. So it's free Stanley blades for life

 

[Ermintrude]

Bang tidy blow off just like ideal.

Use end feed stopend as Yorkshire but big.

Then chew pipe as I did or use a Jr hacksaw

Sweat end on

Punch tube

Done

 

[Mike Jackson]

Need to replace a built in shower or one with non standard spacings. Get a piece of stainless sheet, fix two easy fit connectors to it and you can hide a multitude of sins.

 

[CXR100]

I use polytheen dustsheets when replacing rads o trv's ect, one 12x12ft does like 2 rads change easily if you cut them in half and that's if you triple layer them up. masking tape them to the skirting behind the rad and cut them so they fit around the pipes feeding the radiator then masking tape the dustsheet to the pipe. tidy job, no spills thru to the carpet and once you finished you can wrap all you rubbish up in them and chuck away! and at £23 for a pack of 10 in TRAVS PERKIS!!!!! ( enough to do 20 rad changes approx.) id say they are a bargain. I don't like dust sheets after they get whet , they smell of amp and look awful!! that's my opinion anyway, if you masking tape them to the skirting no dust will get behind onto the carpets when drilling!

 

[Whyme]

im a bit of a cheapskate so i use some old shower curtains ive gained.

 

[Ermintrude]

I use quality sheets which are washed every two weeks by laundrette

 

[CXR100]

if you live in a rural area like I do then its a 20 mile round journey to a laundrette . probably not worth I for me in lost time and fuel!!

 

[Ermintrude]

Buy a second hand washing machine then. Only use laundrette as easier than washing and drying 30 odd sheets

 

[Killy Bing]

Installing a top fed towel rad but want bottom entry performance?

On the flow pipe use a union styled radiator tail.
solder into this a length of 15 mm pipe to reach near to the bottom of the rad.

Thread in and hey presto.

 

[Mike Jackson]

Following on from the dust in pipes thread. Want an easy way of preventing debris getting into new pipework. Slap a speedfit stop end on. Only problem is what happens if you stick one on a pipe intended for gas and forget about it? Easy drill a small hole in the end and paint it yellow. Can't be mistaken for a normal one and if you forget to remove it before gassing up it will show as a fail on the tightness test.

I've also got a test point threaded into the end of a speedfit connector to allow me to test gas pipes before they are connected to the meter. Also useful when you are trying to track down a leak as you can isolate sections of pipe and test them separately.

 

[mutley racers]

I find those jg caps to be a nightmare to get off. Especially in tight spaces. I have lost many a battle with them.

 

[WaterTight]

Have you ever tried to get one off a pipe frozen with a freezing machine where the stop end is 2mm above the ice plug? Hacksawing that off was proper brown trouser time.

Edit: sorry that was banter.

Tip: Don't live catch a pipe with a stop end that you later intend to freeze and join onto unless there is room to cut.

 

[Ermintrude]

When stuck at security gates and you can't wait to get on to the job or no one answering. Clamber over wall with welding transformer , put it on the loop nearest gate and hey presto.

 

[spanner]

I just stick a push fit on the end of..