Plumbing Question

[skeeterm5]

Hi all,

did I dream this tool.......

A tool which cuts through a 'live' water pipe and in the process seals it? I want to cut off a pipe to a radiator that I no longer need (in bathroom connected directly to hot water tank) and rather than have to drain everything think that I recall this tool.

Or, did I dream it?

S

[Silver993tt]

skeeterm5 said:

Hi all,

did I dream this tool.......

A tool which cuts through a 'live' water pipe and in the process seals it? I want to cut off a pipe to a radiator that I no longer need (in bathroom connected directly to hot water tank) and rather than have to drain everything think that I recall this tool.

Or, did I dream it?

S

well, you can easily freeze the pipe, cut it and then cap it.

[Ferg]

You dreamt it.

Turn of the heating. Bung the cold feed and vent at the header tank. Lose the pressure through a rad valve. Cut pipe. Compression stop end.

Edited by Ferg on Tuesday 26th January 19:21

[-Pete-]

Screwfix do a pipe freezing kit:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/13369/Plumbing/Pipe-...

and compression-fitting stop ends:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/65021/Plumbing/Compr...

Looking forward to your "oh no, water is pouring out of my plumbing" thread in the near future

[robinhood21]

Turn off/drain down and, cut pipe. Fit stop-end and fill/turn on water, only to discover one has fitted stop-end to wrong side of pipe.

[jonnyye]

Dont bother with any of the above, just be fast !!

[Simpo Two]

You may be remembering a 'screw-in' type outside tap kit.

I had to do some plumbing today. I noticed that the 15mm copper pipe supplying my outside tap had come apart at a solder joint. Now whether this was down to the freezing weather, or the geezer who fitted a new kitchen door just above it last week and maybe dropped the doorframe on it, I don't know - but until it was fixed, I couldn't wash the car.

Trouble was that the pipe was tight to the wall, with phone cables next to it, and so impossible to repair in the proper way. Five minutes work with some Araldite and all is well (sorry Ferg!)

[skeeterm5]

Thanks for the replies, as I seemed to have dreamed this up maybe I should invent it!!!

(now hoping to avoid the 'water everywhere' thread next week!)

S

[Simpo Two]

Actually I was reading some catalogue recently - Screwfix? - and there was a tool that would clamp a plastic pipe closed while you worked on it. Seemed too good to be true (but not much use for copper!)

[Ferg]

skeeterm5 said:

Thanks for the replies, as I seemed to have dreamed this up maybe I should invent it!!!

(now hoping to avoid the 'water everywhere' thread next week!)

S

Just bung the cold feed and vent. Easy.