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ladwey replied to the thread Sand and cement ratio.Just saw someone on another forum suggest dot and dabbing tile adhesive to the back in the void sections and then drilling through with...
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I put a splash of PVA in water then 4.5 to 1 mix or there abouts. The splash of PVA makes it creamy and nice to work with.
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ladwey replied to the thread Sand and cement ratio.Love it, thanks mate
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I think I posted this in the wrong forum initially, sorry! I need to put some wedi boards on the wall for tiling. When the old tiles...
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I need to put some wedi boards on the wall for tiling. When the old tiles came off they left a recess behind them -- there's old...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.Fair enough! Got really rattled when my first try at attaching it failed. Simplest answer is I didn't tighten it properly -- I was just...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.It's still holding ... Here's a picture of another offcut. As you can see it's pretty thick and sort of wedge-shaped.. The other one had...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.I'm not taking it out again!! But I'll have a look in the morning and see if any of the other parts have one on. Some of the others fell...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.Whatever it was had held for who knows how many decades before I got to it, so I hope it will still be sturdy now it's back in.
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The existing fitting - could it be type b manipulative (flared)?
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.Just read this and it doesn't sound like what I was dealing with though ... It was an ordinary section of half inch pipe, no flared end...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.Yes it's an odd shape -- comes down to a point at one end, broader than a normal olive at the other. If you took a cross section it...
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You could check tomorrow how well the olive sits on the pipe by undoing the compression fitting,and try to knock it off the pipe ...
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ladwey replied to the thread Compression fitting question.Actually that was why I went back to reuse the section of old pipe -- the olive on it was absolutely rock solidly attached when I took...
