$%*&%@@*+?\ Plumbing

[chris murphy]

Why is plumbing always a complete and total ball ache? Its taken me 3 bloody hours to replace like for like the shower mixer tap thing in the kitchen, all the bloody fittings were different, endless trips to the merchant for a half inch this and 3 quarter that, female to female whatnots, they speak a completely alien language in the plumbing world. He asked me if was a 3/4, i said i haven't a bloody clue, but i want 2 of them and all i know is the old ones don't fit and they are copper!

Cheers……………Howard

"Hello SirKit Breaker / Howard",


Please accept my apology that I replied to Members comments on your thread to `Vent` about `Plastic pipe`.


Sorry that I cannot be helpful to You regarding the various Fittings that are found within the Plumbing industry - it can be confusing to people who don`t often work on Plumbing unless you can actually take the item that you want to connect to with you to the Plumbers Merchants - which more often than not is impossible.


I hope that You managed to get it sorted out.


Regards,


Chris

 

[Geordie Spark]

Chris your posts are always a joy to read, all the colours of the rainbow arty:





Ok only 3, but still....

Would you be happier with brown, black, grey, blue and green/yellow?? :joker:

 

[shanky887614]

"Hello SirKit Breaker / Howard",


Please accept my apology that I replied to Members comments on your thread to `Vent` about `Plastic pipe`.


Sorry that I cannot be helpful to You regarding the various Fittings that are found within the Plumbing industry - it can be confusing to people who don`t often work on Plumbing unless you can actually take the item that you want to connect to with you to the Plumbers Merchants - which more often than not is impossible.


I hope that You managed to get it sorted out.


Regards,


Chris

I would have done the simple thing, expanded the copper so you can solder on the right size and its as good as gold (only have to heat it up to remove in future)

 

[chris murphy]

I would have done the simple thing, expanded the copper so you can solder on the right size and its as good as gold (only have to heat it up to remove in future)

"Hello shanky887614",


Could You please let Me know what significance there was in your quoting my message to the OP ?


Also - as You could not possibly know exactly what fittings He was having problems with I am surprised at what You wrote that You would have done.

`Expand the Copper so you can solder on the right size` - are You assuming that He had a problem using 15mm fittings on 1/2" Imperial Copper pipe - ?


Why would He have also been mentioning 3/4" if it was just a matter of connecting 1/2" Imperial to 15mm Copper - ?


I am sure that as He is an Electrician the OP would have been well able to describe what He wanted to connect to - IF it was a situation where the 15mm fittings did not fit old 1/2" Copper that would have been easy to describe to the Plumbers Merchants.



If it was just an Imperial to Metric [1/2" to 15mm] situation I like to think that He would have been advised to use 15mm Compression couplings by the Plumbers Merchant ?

There are 1/2" Imperial to 15mm Metric couplings available - Yorkshire solder ring fittings are the most readily available.


WE do NOT know exactly what fittings He was looking for.


I commented that `I could not be helpful to Him regarding the various fittings found in the Plumbing Industry` - NOT because I don`t know ALL of the Fittings available - but because there was not enough detail in his message about EXACTLY what He was trying to connect - plus my message was long after I would have expected that He had already found what he needed and carried out the connections.


I await your reply with interest.


Regards,


Chris