So you can have atioght bend that does not want to unbenmd itself. Unles you use unipipe.
I have a nice top quality one thank you. Please donate your this money to the rich people. You appear to want to keep them rich for some reason known only to yourself.
Please re-read.
and a lazer torch and a tractor and a bus and an angle grinder too.
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If you use the formers supplied by the plastic plumbing manufacturers you can have quite a tight bend which will stay in place without having to mess around with this.
So why don't you use it?
I was feeling in a generous mood. Perhaps the Maplin toolkit instead?
My preference has always been to drill a hole through the joist. Notching a joist severely weakens it.
sPoNiX
"Lazer torch"? What sort of batteries does that take?
sPoNiX
Big ones.
Not if you don't go down too deep and it is with 25% of the span from a wall, and the floor boards around the nlotches are screwed not nailed.
Or better still use proper pipe. The expense of all this garbage too, special formers and whatnot.
How much do you donate to the rich each year?
It's one of the tradeoffs between cost of materials vs. time taken and between doing a job properly and bodging it.
I know that you find both concepts difficult.
Way too much in taxes, national insurance, VAT, duty,.........
Irony is not one of your stronger points. is it ?!...
The correct way to try and regain some of the lost strength is to screw a steel plate across the notch. This has the added benefit of protecting the pipe to some extent.
Correct way? That is only one way.
What type of irony? Any old irony?
So how come *you* never mentioned it.... probably because you have only just been told yourself, I suspect....
"IMM" wrote
of corse it makes a difference! a joist with a smoothly shaped "U" will be far stronger than a straight cut slot.
shokka
John Rumm wrote> > If the replaced floor board is screwed back then this adds rigidity.
lol! lol!
is imm for real? r u sure hes not a troll?
shokka
This is the internet and this sort is found hanging around doing now sue whatsoever.
nope. Regs say no problems with a straight cut. Duh!
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