Question on capping plastic plumbing pipes

[Spudler]

thebraketester said:

Cant you access it from inside to block it off internally?

I'd aim for this.
By the time you've taken off the elbow and cut back to sound pipe you won't have enough protruding to fit onto.

Speedfit by the way.

[dirkgently]

Tell you what, £650 and I will come and do it for you.

[scz4]

I finally moved all the crap inside the garage to get a peak. Not much room to do anything in there, other than remove the T piece and put a straight pipe in, will the copper be welded? All that said, if it's going to leak I'd rather it leaked outside

As you can see, there is a shutoff valve, so easy to work on!

[Spudler]

Tidy it up with copper and pushfit.
Get rid of T piece and replace with straight connector onto new copper.
New PF elbow onto copper.
Look neater.
I'd suggest 'Polyplumb'.

[scz4]

Spudler said:

Tidy it up with copper and pushfit.
Get rid of T piece and replace with straight connector onto new copper.
New PF elbow onto copper.
Look neater.
I'd suggest 'Polyplumb'.

Yeap that's what I'm going to do. Couple of pushpipe couplers and a short bit of copper pipe from Screwfix. Job done hopefully. Will report back

[thebraketester]

Easy job that no from the inside. Even better than there is a isolation valve there :-)

[dirkgently]

Use one of these and you dont have to remove the Tee

[scz4]

dirkgently said:

Use one of these and you dont have to remove the Tee

Good shout, although not sure I'd have enough room, will buy one though and try it as the first option.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/compression-blanking-nut...

Edited by scz4 on Friday 1st April 08:22

[scz4]

All sorted now, took 5 minutes and I'm pretty much embarrassed to have asked the question now! Everyone has to start somewhere I guess