plastic plumbing vs copper - a moan.

Nov 16, 2008 50 Replies

You are at least out of line with some suppliers:

"Microbore Copper Tube 10mm × 25m" - Screwfix

And, in my experience, anyone with CH utilising

In article , Heliotrope Smith scribeth thus

So it is 10 mm that is.. seen it in mutter in laws gaff.

One interesting thing all the joints seem to be brazed rather than soldered, any idea why they do that?..

Surely it can't be the mains pressure?..

How can you tell - have you tried to unsolder one? If it were for oil I guess that'd be an acceptable method (brazing or hard soldering).

Well it looks like braze, its not solder unless they have Yellow coloured stuff there.

Some Aircon pipe work seems to be done the same way...

Is it recent? Could it be that Just for Copper glue stuff?

I used that 6 months ago. It works.

In article , Doctor Drivel scribeth thus

No this was deffo a metal filler they didn't do things like that there when this was built in the 70's...

Ah. Yet another try to avoid doing things properly.

Please eff off as you are an idiotic Jocko plantpot.

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