found this in my garage the other day, i'll bet some people have never seen one of these.
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tamz
Similar thing but for copper. We call them drifts up here. Used for manipulative type B compressions.
You good old boys really knew how to do plumbing proper.
An inside out mole, and a lump of steel (that you clump with a hammer) was all you needed to create works of such quality, they've lasted decades.
Of course, I'm very handy with a pushfit coupling and a few flexi hoses.....but then I was born in the late 70's, not plumbing during them.
An inside out mole, and a lump of steel (that you clump with a hammer) was all you needed to create works of such quality, they've lasted decades.
Of course, I'm very handy with a pushfit coupling and a few flexi hoses.....but then I was born in the late 70's, not plumbing during them.
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mrlennie
Why use pushfits at all when you can just link flexis!
Them flexi's come in 1.5m length now. used 2 a few days ago when turning a bath round. saved me 3m of pipe , 2 bath adapters & 2 straights. came in pushfit as well. No skint knuckles nowadays. Easy game this plumbing .
Came to look at a property which had been empty for a year and the new occupant tried to turn the water on and whoosh! Flexis eveywhere including to the radiators, and all plastic. Mice and rats had been very busy (with the electrics also!) and what they hadn't ruined, the frost had finished off so decided to rip out all and replace.
Great things mice Newtons law = plastic pipe + mice = £ . made my fortune out of mice. ps it's cats i dont like.
id like to see you connect some of the closed back wc suites with out a flexi of some sort it would be impossible
K
kirkgas
difficult YES
challenging YES
impossible NO
thats the difference between real plumbers and those who play at it haha
K
kay-jay
what about the monobloc taps that come supplied with flexi's? can't seem to buy the rigid tails anywhere they just come supplied with some but not all taps.
i'm with steve on the cc w/c issue as well some of them are downright impossible to fit without a flexi only possible alternative is placcy pipe that has enough flex to pass through the double shelf pans
i'm with steve on the cc w/c issue as well some of them are downright impossible to fit without a flexi only possible alternative is placcy pipe that has enough flex to pass through the double shelf pans
it is some years since kirk has actually done any work other than the remodeling of his hand
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