I stupidly hacksawed into what I thought was a disused lead pipe in our shed. The pipe sticks out vertically about 12 cm from the concrete floor. I made the cut about 5 or 6 cm from the floor. It looks like the pipe was capped with a sheet of lead. The cut is, of course, now spitting mains pressure water... Any ideas how I might I mend it? Be gentle - i'm a DIY novice!
how to mend cut in lead pipe?
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Obviously you just nicked it until it spurted 
. whip an inner tube out of one of those bikes you never use Wrap that round and secure with a jubilee clip - then get a leadlok and an end cap from a plumbers merchant @ your leisure
. whip an inner tube out of one of those bikes you never use Wrap that round and secure with a jubilee clip - then get a leadlok and an end cap from a plumbers merchant @ your leisureI would guess that your 'shed' is brick built and has a hole in the floor where the old wc once was...?
The disused lead pipe is likely to be the old redundant supply to an outside toilet. It may be easier to repair if you can find an internal pipe that supplies water to it, from the house, as this might have been replaced for copper internally.
It will also be what is known as a dead leg, and possibly holds stagnant water that could be contaminating your own wholesome water and best removed, not just capped again.
You could also possibly connect a lead-loc to it and use the supply as an outside tap.
Leadlok or a philmac universal connector. You will need to turn offthe supply in the street as you would need to cut through the pipe to fit either of these.
Be careful just bending and hammering.....if it fails you won't have enough straight pipe to fit connectors to and you will need to go digging
Be careful just bending and hammering.....if it fails you won't have enough straight pipe to fit connectors to and you will need to go digging
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