Beginners tips for plastic plumbing

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I bought this one from Screwfix and unless there is a knack to it then I am not impressed .It is difficult to get the ratchet to enagage without fiddling around with the tool.

Aww look wickle Drivel still thinks that failing to quote a post somehow erases it. Bless.

I'm only too happy to portray your drivelling stupidity to the world.

Sad, very.

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Oh, *I* wouldn't. I do things properly. Just giving advice for bodgers such as you who don't invest in the proper tools or have basic skills. My joints never leak no matter what type of pipe I use.

Why would anyone want to look at a container?

Richard, you can't do things properly. That is a known fact.

But the world knows you cut plastic pipe with a hacksaw and the joint leaked. Only someone with no skills would do this and ponder why...

It must be cocoa time for him by now.

When joining spedfit to compression fittings. use same brand pipe insert. No need to tighten fitting as much as for copper to copper, just a half a turn beyond hand tightening...worked for me.

Arthur

Mine was part number MS137

I've done a search and found that, although there are one or two posters who are vehemently against push-fit ("It's crap", "It always fails") they don't come across to me as "hard nosed professionals" but more like teenage boys. Their frequency of posting also suggests they don't have a full-time job as well as perhaps giving the impression that more people dislike push-fit than like it (In one thread titled "push-fit" one third of all posts came from a single individual called "marc_again", the other 13 posters seemed to think push-fit was not a particular problem)

On the whole, that forum does nothing to dissuade me from the opinion that I expressed above, most people think plastic pipework, including push-fit, is not perfect but pretty much OK,

Cheers,

John

As a novice I used push fit recently and found it OK.

I only have a cheap (£4.50 IIRC) no-name cutter but it cuts 15mm plastic pipe fine (not tried it on larger). However, I did find that cutting with a slight rotation around the pipe, rather than just squeezing it made it

A) significantly less effort, and

B) eliminated a tendency to squash the pipe.

I haven't tried the more expensive varieties but looking at their pictures I expect this technique may still be advantageous.

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