Remember a while back I had trouble with a push fit pipe fitting. Yesterday I failed to learn from the previous lesson, I was removing the water meter from under the sink and at the same time replacing the stop c*ck with a su re stop. Because I am not certain where all the piping will be going until I come to fit the new sink unit, I tidied up as much as possible using push fit and plastic pipe to temporarily connect things up. Having spent a good part of the afternoon hunched up under the sink with back and knees hurtin g I forgot to check the push fits and just got on cutting pipe and fitting together. Well Sods Law was in full operation one fitting had a badly fitte d O ring and this is where I discovered the one short coming of the sure st op, unlike a stop c*ck where you can slowly turn on the water, the switch o n the surestop gives instant full pressure so the dodgy fitting caused an i nstant deluge fortunately the instant switch off of the surestop saved the day.
BTW any use for a second hand water meter, Yorkshire Water surprisingly do not want it back and told me to dump it. I may when I am less busy do a Big Clive like tear down out of curiosity.
Richard