Weird plumbing

Its times like this we miss the dribble/Andy Hall[1] type ding dongs. At least dribble stuck to one rigid fixed point of view that meant one could counter with cogent arguments that went into detail, and which were informative to all.

These modern trolls with their ever shifting goalposts just aren't as useful!

I should mention that I also answer questions as best I can, especially on subjects like pressure washers, decking & carpet cleaning.

I rather like ripping the piss out of idiots :-)

pass us another 'nanna ;-)

Rubbish!

I was in our local Travis Perkins just last week buying a few things and they had stocks of ball valves for cisterns and every one of them was brass/copper. Why? That's what they have a demand for. And it so happens that that's what I use. Running a caravan site you soon learns what's easy to install and reliable in service. Especially when the use is seasonal.

I think

Indeed they do. Indeed, I do. And for good reason -- I'll have to install it and I'll have to fix it if it goes wrong. And believe me in public buildings if it can go wrong it certainly will. If it can be broken, they'll break it. Plastic ball valves are not the most robust items under the sun.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

Around here they're dead common.

Same with the brass valves, they have a choice of inserts - red high pressure, white low pressure.

Brass ball valves are common in header tanks and might well be used in caravan parks, but the subject under discussion is WC cisterns.

Its rare to get any type of ball valve in a modern cistern, the vast majority come with Torbecs or similar.

Agreed. However the subject under discussion was domestic WC cisterns.

And if I have to change my domestic ones, that's exactly what I'll use

-- I do the job once and I do it properly and I hope that I never have to do it again. Or at least not for many years. I've been dealing with the same guy in what is now Travis Perkins for 30 years. The plumbing stock lines he takes in are ones which are trouble-free. And by the time they come in with trade discount, they're not very dear anyway.

John MacLeod