I guess the sunlight has effected the clips holding my gas pipe to the wall and the snap over clips have broken.
Unfortunately the screwhole is central behind the pipe so to remove and replace I need to risk easing the pipe out of the way. I am a bit wary of this and would like to find a clip that has an off-centre fixing hole. The existing clips are Talon brand.
any suggestions?
There are clips which have screws either side of the pipe, you just need to find them. Try a specialist shop- plumbers' merchant- rather than the DIY sheds. Chances are you will save some money as well.
I call them 'saddle clips' but I'm not sure if that is the proper name.
There are saddle clips & P clips, as well as other types. Old clips can be sawn or melted with care. Don't assume new clips will have the same spacing from the wall.
You might find that the pipe is still clipped in place even without the snapon cover.
NT
replying to DerbyBorn, Iggy wrote: Welcome to the world of crap, Plastic. Yep, that's what Plastic does, regardless of being inside or out. You'll need Metal and it's all you should've had to start with. For outdoors, only use Stainless Steel fasteners and Straps (clips).
1-hole is the most user friendly and quite adequate if people aren't hanging things from the pipe.snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Yes - perhaps I panicked a bit.
alan_m wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
Just what I was hoping to find. Many thanks
+1.
Also, if the clip is in the middle of a run you will normally be able to "ping" the pipe out and move it over far enough to undo the screw. That means you won't have to faff around drilling and plugging two new holes close to a "live" pipe.
The pipe goes down the the gas meter - I was a bit wary of mauling it around - but job done with similar clips.
How did you sort the clips out in the end.. I have had new clips on outside of house for 1 year and clips now breaking already. Bit disappointing. Did you try gluing the clip part back on?
You must have missed the bit where he wrote "job done with similar clips" i.e. he replaced them. But if they only last a year you should probably heed the other contributor who advised that externally only stainless clips should be used.
You can get plastic clips specified for external use.
I recently took down some black plastic guttering that had been in situ for 20+ years - all the parts including the various clips still appear to be serviceable (for re-use as guttering for a shed)
Yes I hung an armoured cable on with plastic clips on a fence some years ago, they all broke in short order due to heat and cold. In the end some soft bendy aluminium strips with a hole through worked for much longer till the nails rusted!
Brian
Hindsight is a wonderful things ay😀 .. I probably would have got someone completely different to do the job and definitely would have gone for metal clips. But I had 2 kids and gas cut off in winter so had to make decision quick and contractor didn't tell me metal clips were an option sadly.
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