Repairing burst flexible copper

Cut out the damaged section, and splice in a replacement using compression fittings.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

Even better, splice in a piece of PEX and it will not burst as easily.

ive soldered in repair sections on soft copper .easy as hard copper

This sounds easy, but if the pipe froze, the copper expanded and the pipe is larger than it should be. It's often not possible to get a compression fitting on it, once it expanded. You may have to replace the whole section of flexible pipe. As for the rigid pipe, that too expands, but usually not as much. If you are able to get back where there was no water, you can often sweat there. I bought a house years ago that was all plumbed with flex pipe, and it had frozen I spent hours trying to patch the stuff, and finally just replaced everything with rigid copper. If you try to hammer a coupler on an expanded pipe, you are unlikely to get a good sweat joint. I also tried to flare the ends and use flare fittings. The problem there, the pieces wont slip on the pipe because the pipe is too large from being expanded.

Thanks. I was debating whether to replace the whole section or just the broken spots; probably faster to do the whole section than fuss with expanded pipe.

Like I said - cut out the damaged section.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?