Cheap copper tube delivered?

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I'd stick to the standard 3m and not worry about the inline joints.

Now, it's probably too much length for you(?), but the best price vs. sensible supplier I've come across is Screwfix at 110 quid (free shipping) for a 10x3m pack = 3.67 per metre.

That was from google shopping "22mm copper tube"

Really, if accessibility for jointing is a problem, make up 6m lengths somewhere convenient with soldered joints, then install them.

Cheers

Tim

If you can hold on a few weeks, you may find the price comes crashing down. Apparently the scrap value already has, as demand for copper has just dropped.

It's probably worth learning to do the joins.

Yes, I think they were the most expensive supplier I could find when installing central heating. Same with the boiler. I didn't use them. I used Wickes for 15mm and 22mm, but that was mainly because I could put a bundle of 3m lengths on my shoulder and walk home. They didn't do 28mm, for which I used B&Q and got a friend with a longer car to drive them home. This was all 6 years ago though.

Many years ago, we re-plumbed our first house. There was a real BM only about a mile away. We walked down there, bought a load of 6m lengths, taped them together nd walked back home. Not much conversation on the way back since we were 5m apart!

Wait a few weeks until the lower comodity prices filter through to retail.

snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net coughed up some electrons that declared:

How much cheaper has copper become recently? I have to get loads in, so this is great interest to me.

Cheers

Tim

Quite a bit it seems:

John Rumm coughed up some electrons that declared:

Thanks John - I'll bide my time...

Cheers

Tim

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Have you asked for a trade discount? I typically get 50% off list from them on brass fittings.

Colin Bignell

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Screwfix is £2/m for 15mm and £4/m for 22mm (for 20m of pipe). Free delivery (need to buy something else for £5 if going for the 15mm to get free delivery)

It would be much easier to chuck a 25m roll of plastic in the boot.

I have a tool which 'bells' out one end of the tube so the next bit fits inside and you then solder it in the normal way. Ideal for those to be concealed joints. It's old and dates from the days of softer higher quality tube - but it will work on modern stuff if its annealed first. I've no idea what it's called and whether they are still available - I was given them many years ago. But they are metric, so not totally ancient.

It's a pipe flaring tool and it flares the end rather than "belling" it.

Flare isn't any better as a description as that suggests a taper.

wrote > Anyone know a good cheap source of copper tube, delivered?

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If you are running 6m lengths without bends, make sure you allow room and flexibility in the rest of your piping layout for expansion (assuming these are heating/hot water that is).

Phil

I agree but that's what it's called.

Good point a 6m length of copper will change length by nearly 8mm over an

I did some of my CH in plastic in 1980. Its still there now.