Recent content by richb77

Thanks for that. Thanks for your help on this. :)

Thanks... I'll try and lower the nut as you suggested. Just another thing. The end of the copper pipe (what I can see that is surrounded by the nut) is like a flat end with a 5-6mm hole in the centre. it does not seem like the end of the pipe but it is this which fits into the valve. Is this...

and your suggesting that by doing this, and exposing the olive it may be possible to cut it off and replace with a new one?

No, there isn't any play at all. The pipe below comes out of the wall, does a 90 degree bend and straight into the valve, no room for play. I'd have to cut it off at the wall, solder a new bend into place and then put a new olive onto this. If the pipe is split then, no amount of tightening will...

The leak was instant once my nephew leaned on the radiator and it came off the wall. Whoever fixed it to the plasterboard wall didn't use the correct plugs and it was an accident waiting to happen. I had a frantic phone call at 9pm tonight and headed over there. The first thing I did was...

Thermostatic radiator valve has a 10mm copper pipe feed. For some reason there doesn't seem to be a good connection between the end of the copper pipe and the valve resulting in the valve being able to be spun around the pipe even if the capnut is fully tightened. This results in an obvious...