- Joined
- Friday July 10, 2009
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Plastic plumbing is crap for horizontal runs. When we moved in here there was no outside tap, no issue, I bought the pipe, brackets tap, service valve etc. and installed all according to manufacturers recommendations. As usual before winter, I turned it off at the service valve and left the tap open so if it froze, it wouldn't burst the pipe. So far so good. It's worked well for the last 5 years or so.
Well over winter the pipe didn't freeze, but it did sag and pulled out one of the compression joints and bust one of the other fittings. Of course this only became apparent when I turned it on this morning halfway through washing the car to rinse off the shampoo.... then when I turned the outside tap off, the always wet side of the service valve started dripping too... so a Sunday morning trip to the local always-open-when-you-need-them builders merchant-cum-garden-centre-cum-café (Pearsons of Duns) to procure a new service valve and thinking I had a couple of 2m lengths of 15mm copper pipe to replace the horizontal run... turns out to be 22mm pipe. Oh well at least the leak is stopped and the rest of the job is a "dry" one which I can do the rest later in peace (I hope)
I hate plumbing!
Well over winter the pipe didn't freeze, but it did sag and pulled out one of the compression joints and bust one of the other fittings. Of course this only became apparent when I turned it on this morning halfway through washing the car to rinse off the shampoo.... then when I turned the outside tap off, the always wet side of the service valve started dripping too... so a Sunday morning trip to the local always-open-when-you-need-them builders merchant-cum-garden-centre-cum-café (Pearsons of Duns) to procure a new service valve and thinking I had a couple of 2m lengths of 15mm copper pipe to replace the horizontal run... turns out to be 22mm pipe. Oh well at least the leak is stopped and the rest of the job is a "dry" one which I can do the rest later in peace (I hope)
I hate plumbing!