Given your success with this method in the past you are not really qualified to comment.
Ignore the resident troll, and get a decent pipe cutter.
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18 years ago
Push fit connectors for central heating?
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18 years ago
Only if you're cack handed.
No you don't.
Goodness knows what you were doing.
ROTFL.
Were you using it upside down or something, or had you tried to cut copper with it?
The purpose is not so much speed, alhough it does that but to get a clean, square edge to the end of the pipe.
A poor workman......
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18 years ago
You don't have much experience of them to come out with that.
See my posts on pushfits.
As long as there are no joints and best joint the pipe using standard compression joints.
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18 years ago
Best forget the pushfits and use standard compression joints.
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18 years ago
Another with little exposure to pushfits.
When using normal compression joints instead of pushfits, there is no need to buy an expensive plastic pipe cutter. Cutting with a hacksaw and removing swarf and burred edges is all that is needed.
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18 years ago
Matt, you have never used one of these substandard cutters then.
Putting the pipe in square and sweezing the handles, and then using one hand to ensure the blade and body come together otherwise no cut.
Matt, you can get therapy for laughing at nothing.
It rarely does that.
...has no money.
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18 years ago
Which is 100% as I am a craftsman. Chav, how are swirly pattened carpets?
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18 years ago
Depends on the boiler
The best and avoid the pushfits.
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18 years ago
Forget what the amateurs say, their exposure to these system is limited to say the least. Buy the pipe but forget the pushfits, either plastic or copper. Use standard compression joints on the plastic pipe.
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18 years ago
Apart from mopping up afterwards.....
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18 years ago
Matt, you only brush up swarf. Boy you are dumb at times.
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18 years ago
See this link.
Mainly professionals talking about pushfits. Far too many failures and a generally unfavourable view.
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18 years ago
Are these the guys that you find hanging around at your counter bemoaning condensing boilers?
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18 years ago
Matt, what counter woudl this be? Push does not come out of it well, and neither does Hep2O. Sad but true. So, Matt rip out all that plastic in your house ASAP.
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18 years ago
I wouldn't say far too many failures, there seems to be about 2 discussed on there and one was found by another plumber so there is no clue to what the original installer did or failed to do. Plus it was with Hep stuff, I prefer JG.
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18 years ago
The archives of that forum is full of plastic push fit disasters reported by pros. They tend to be catastrophic, like the fitting shooting off the pipe and a full bore pouring out water under the floors. One thread had one plumber attending a pushfit leak and the customer got him to price up removing them all for compression.
The most problematic fittings are pushfit a marathon.