Some Jobs Just Don't Go As Easy As They Should

Post by **Totally Scrambled** » 06 Apr 2011, 17:36

We've got an outside tap and for a while now there has been the sound of running water but from underground, so today as it was nice and warm I thought I'd grab the bull by the horns and fix it.
The pipe upto the tap is 15mm with a stopcock below it going into 22mm pipe. Easy I thought I've got pipe, couplings, olives in both 15mm & 22mm more than enough to do the job.
Wrong. After digging down to the feeder pipe I turned off the stopcock in the house and the water carried on running. Turns out it is fed from next door so had to find their street stopcock and turn it off.
Went back to the pipe and undid the coupling that joins the supply to the 22m, took the worn olive off and slipped a new one on, it rattled around. The supply pipe is years old and an Imperial pipe. }hairout{

So cut a bit off and down to the plumbers merchant. Got the bit I needed, which was quite big, so had to cut the supply pipe back a bit, then cut and add a bit of 22mm pipe to join it to the tap pipe.
So the best part of a lovely sunny day spent in a shady corner with my head down a soggy hole scraping my knuckles against brickwork {mr.angry}

Still it's done now and no more feeling guilty about wasting water :oops:

Dom

Steve the Gas · Post by **Steve the Gas** » 06 Apr 2011, 18:32

Got the Tshirt but only the once...... )w(

Should have mentioned it - I would have listed the risks.......... :b(

secret squirrel · Post by **secret squirrel** » 09 Apr 2011, 18:00

You have my sympathy. If I was paid a £ for every half hour job that took 3 hours. I would be very rich. Still, you succeeded and now its done. )t'

lorna

Itchy · Post by **Itchy** » 04 May 2011, 21:43

I did a similar job and ended up with a water feature in the street for 3 days and needed a new stopcock )t'