Copper & Plastic plumbing - freely mixing and matching?

[IMM]

Exactly!

[IMM]

Tsk, tsk!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Since your wrong about so much, why should you be right about this?

Carry on making a fool of yourself. With your hacksaw and Stanley knife.

[Stephen Gower]

So someone who cut a pipe this way and managed to cause a flood is probably incompetent?

[IMM]

No. If pipe cut properly that is not incompetence. Duh!

[IMM]

As you know nothing about heating and water system you would not know what is right or wrong. Duh!

[Brian Sharrock]

When faced with a similar _problem_ ^W opportunity ... I did attempt plastic to chrome joint: it failed under pressure with the plastic fitting easing off the slippery chrome. I de-chromed the end by using one of those pipe-end cleaners - it's a plastic tube -gauged for 15mm one end and

22mm at t'other- each end has flap-style abrasive thingies; push the pipe into appropriate end and twist aggressively- result shiny copper for the correct depth for jointing. Second time around with what was now Copper~Plastic; no problems.

[Owain]

"IMM" wrote | Here is this Plowman giving advise on CH..read on... | This what he wears, yes he does...he said... | "Well, I got a rather flash pair of DeWalt boots from TLC, so there.;-)" | Sad isn't it. Big yellow boots. Yes. big yellow boots.

What is wrong with yellow boots? I expect they're very useful for seeing where your feet are in the dark.

Owain

[fred]

In article , IMM writes

I was suggesting this as a protection against abuse/accident rather other kinds of movement.

[Phil Addison]

While you're there, why not pick up the proper tool

£5.32 inc VAT. I paid about £8 for mine from the local PM.

When using these cutters, cut with a slight rotation of the tool. It makes the blade cut much easier, and squashes the tube less.

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[Phil Addison]

Hep has these as well, and very useful they are.

Another tip: Are you sure you put an insert in the end of that pipe yesterday? Put a mark on the pipe with a marker pen as soon as you slip the insert in. Then you can go back later and be re-assured when you see the mark is there. Before I adopted that technique I had to undo a few to double-check that I did fit the insert.

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[Dave Plowman (News)]

They'd help aiming at IMM's arse, too.

[David]

I paid about £5.80 IIRC, I don't know where John gets his £15 ones from, they're probably Dewalt...

[IMM]

I know where my feet are.

[Frank Stacey]

I have now read the instructions on the packaging (rtfm?) and see they explicitly advise NOT to use plastic connectors with chrome-plated copper tube.

The plumbing for the towel rail is in place and all seems fine - I'm off to do the same for the hot and cold water.....

Thanks to evryone for lots of useful advice.

Frank

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Cirrus?

[Kalico]

Speedfit! No way - use Hep2O instead and worry less about leaks.

Rob

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[Andy Hall]

I've never had problems with any of the major brands, including Speedfit.

[IMM]

restriction?

Marley Equator and Osma Gold have the edge.

[IMM]

restriction?

You have only used a few foot of the stuff. Duh!