Recent content by quaritch

yes, that looks exactly the thing that would have been useful! Always assumed they grabbed the olive somehow, didn’t realise it threaded into the actual nut

Thanks both, thought I’d check for next time, mole grips it is. Tangential question, when removing the old valve, it was so tight against a soldered fitting that I couldn’t move the nut back enough to get to the olive - needed to get it off to clean up the pipe prior to fitting new valve. Ended...

Hi, wondering how other people do this: have just replacing the filling loop for my central heating as the old one was weeping from the check valve. The bit I had real trouble with was getting the isolation valve for the heating side tightened up enough. Normally with compression fittings I use...

Thanks for the explanation. What got me wondering this is my cold feed comes into my house in the kitchen and then goes straight up the wall to the combi boiler upstairs. I want to put a dishwasher on one side of the feed and a washing machine on the other. Figured a 4 way joint would be the...

Hi all Something I was just curious about, why is it that 4 way fittings are not particularly common? I am talking about something like this: 15mm Copper End Feed Equal Cross 4 Way Plumbing Pipe Fitting (15mm) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BPM13WY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_a6e8CbWXAS3QN There...

Anyone else who is fitting a weatherbar, make sure you follow this step! I ended up nibbling more than i needed to off the end of my bar before remembering this advice

Thanks Notch, ill give that a go and cross my fingers! I used Sandtex Exterior Primer, i believe it is solvent based. Cheers PS when i did the priming i left a portable oil radiator in the doorway to keep the temperature up, is that worth doing or is it a waste of time?

Hi I stripped my wooden backdoor frame earlier in the year intended to repaint ut but due to a series of unfortunate events i never got a chance to do it. I now have time and money, but i understand that painting outside in cold weather is not recommended due to the damp getting to the paint...

That looks good, i’ll go with that setup then. Thanks for the photo. Kicking myself for not getting on with this in the summer months!

Hello Looking for a bit of consensus about my back door. It is made of wood and is in quite an exposed location, so I am looking to improve my defences against the elements. I have identified two improvements that I would make, installing around door strips, and a weather bar (links below so...