cap off an old lead pipe

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Hi,

The water supply to my house is lead, it come up about a 2' from the floor in the kitchen and then is coupled to 15mm copper at 90 degrees.

The lead pipe also goes vertically presumably to have fed upstairs, it's been cut off and squashed flat. For some reason this has started leaking, only a slow drip but enough to be a problem.

Would something like this with a 15mm stop end on the other end work: http://www.melimatic.com/LEAD%20LOC%20EXPLODED%20V...

Access is restricted so want something simple.

Thanks in advance.

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Simpo Two said:

Do you need special fittings for lead? Assuming it's 15mm like copper, won't a normal stop-end work?

They're not metric as they're ancient, 1" pipe.

B&Q do a lead-copper coupler, going to see if that works, worry is that the pipe isn't going to be perfectly round as lead is very soft.

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robinhood21 said:

What's wrong with a blowlamp and a stick of white-metal?
But yes OP, that should be fine.

ET, fix smiley.

Edited by robinhood21 on Wednesday 14th April 10:53

Access is a bit too restricted to do something like that

It's going to be fun just cutting the end off the pipe, might attack it with the grinder.

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Fitted the stop-end, was a PITA to do as the original lead pipe was too big so had to attack it with a dremel, thankfully lead is nice n soft.

Hopefully it's sorted it.

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Don't, it won't work.

Use one of these http://www.melimatic.com/11.html

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Perhaps but I could only get one size of lead loc so had no choice.

Still it's been there 18 months and works fine.

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Always wanted to do that but the thought of digging up the whole drive to do it and how much it would cost means it'll stay there.

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Marty63 said:

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Always wanted to do that but the thought of digging up the whole drive to do it and how much it would cost means it'll stay there.

no need to dig up drive

dig 3 holes(depends on distance) and use a pneumatic mole to pull pipe thru

But how would you get from drive to under the kitchen? Would have thought that would have to be fairly invasive.