How hard can it be? (replacing copper t with speedfit)

Hi,

Have to replace a copper t on 22mm pipe work.
How easy will it be to heat up the solder and remove this t, then replace with some speedfit bizness?

Also is there such thing as a pushfit T with a tap connector on the junction?

I would not recommend trying to use a pushfit on a previously soldered connection as its difficult to remove all the rough solder.

Better to use a compression joint !

Better still to use a soldered fitting.

If you want a tap on the tee branch then use a seperate tap unti.

Tony

Hi,

How easy? Well, if ALL the water in the pipe can be drained beforehand, and the stoptap is good, and there is a prior/lower point where any possible water deposits can go, and there's no danger of burning the house down, and there's enough flexibility in the pipework to split the tee, then you should get away with only minor burns to your hands. If there's any trace of water left in the tee then it may be impossible to unsolder all the fitting and you may be left with a half-soldered joint, worse than you started with. Your poor hands will also discover that steam travels rapidly down the pipework at an extremely high temperature.

If you can't get rid of all the water, and it is surprising how little is needed to make life hell, then you may have to cut one or more branches of the T to drain it, and then do the unsoldering and repairing, as Agile describes.

Rgds.

Damn, thought it was gonna be an easy -ish job
Thanks for the advice chaps.

I don't know the situation of the "T" in question, but it could be worth looking at cutting the copper back to a clean part in all directions and then fitting Speefit stuff to fill the gap. It would then be simple to add the tap connector or anything else you needed.
If you want to keep copper, then you can get pushfit copper fittings which work much the same as the plastic stuff.