Opella plastic plumbing fittings

[Gingerbread Man]

DrDeAtH said:

That's a polyplumb fitting. You may be able to salvage the grab ring if you slide it off the pipe the correct way.
Other than that, just buy a straight polyplumb coupler and use the guts out of it to aid your repair with a short length of copper and a standard washing machine valve.

But it isn't a polypipe polyplumb fitting. It's a Hep2o fitting.

I see the OP has bought a polyplumb T and made it work. Be aware that you have mixed and matched there, it'll probably be fine, but I'd have swapped out the whole T.

[PositronicRay]

You're right (looking @ google images)

I actually re-used the grab-ring from the hep2o fitting, but with a speed-fit insert and speed-fit pipe. It's under the sink so I'll keep an eye out for drips. I notice the hep2o insert is a straight metal collar pushed into the pipe.

The 15mm polyplumb "T" was out of stock so I picked up an elbow (which I didn't use). Just in case I needed the ring/seal thingy, thinking it was the same type of fitting.

Now I understand the systems, for any future plastic plumbing, I'll probably just use speed-fit, availability seems better.

PH is great for this sort of stuff
Better than feeling awkward in a plumbers merchant, while someone "sucks through their teeth" (do they learn this in plumbing college) in an unhelpful fashion.

I was in the same place the other week. I wanted a ceramic cartridge for a mixer tap. More "teeth sucking" followed by "we get asked for those a lot" (long pause) "you won't get one anywhere" (long pause) "you'll need a new tap"

Got home and in 5mins I found exactly what I wanted on Amazon, amazing that.

Edited by PositronicRay on Friday 5th February 08:15

[Gingerbread Man]

Teeth sucking and rubbing of the hands in glee is something you learn as an apprentice. I failed because I don't drink tea or coffee.

I'll never be a real trades man until I learn the art of wet and warm tea.

[LookAtMyCat]

99% of people who work in merchants know absolutely nothing about plumbing aside from what they have gleamed by pretending to be a plumber while working in a merchants. Do not take their advice on anything. They know parts, not practice.

To be honest I see threads like this and just think life is way too short to be trying to work this out on a forum and visiting merchants. I'd have sorted that, properly, in 10 mins and charged you £20-30 depending on how decent the tea you made me was. You'd also have my £5,000,000 liability insurance backing it up in case it decides to spring in a couple of weeks when you're out and flood your house.

[Rickyy]

Gingerbread Man said:

Teeth sucking and rubbing of the hands in glee is something you learn as an apprentice. I failed because I don't drink tea or coffee.

I'll never be a real trades man until I learn the art of wet and warm tea.

You and I must be the only non-tea/coffee drinking tradesmen I know.

I must have missed the part of my apprenticeship where they teach the tea drinking, teeth sucking and "I can fit a boiler and 7 rads in one day" boasting at the merchants!

[PositronicRay]

LookAtMyCat said:

To be honest I see threads like this and just think life is way too short to be trying to work this out on a forum and visiting merchants. I'd have sorted that, properly, in 10 mins and charged you £20-30 depending on how decent the tea you made me was. You'd also have my £5,000,000 liability insurance backing it up in case it decides to spring in a couple of weeks when you're out and flood your house.

It's a good point actually. I have a good plumber I rely on, he's flat out at the moment though and I didn't want to wait. He's retiring later this yr so I'll need to find someone else.

I used to be cash rich and time poor, now it's the other way round. I enjoy tackling basic jobs and learning as I go, I don't feel so useless that way.