Evening, i have a towel rail in my bathroom. The chrome pipes that feed it have the smallest drip when the rail is switched off. The drip is coming from the compression elbow and leaves a small puddle on the floor which is annoying me now. I don't want to drain down the towel rail for a little drip and have already tweeked the nut. Is there any sealent i can put on it without having to drain the rail? Thanks
Slight leak
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Don't mean to sound obnoxious, but as the saying goes, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly!
I'd recommend drain down, but as an alternative, apply some LS-X.. It is a bodge job, but I've used it in the past, (In a boiler, so it's not so evident!);It works a treat for me!
I'd recommend drain down, but as an alternative, apply some LS-X.. It is a bodge job, but I've used it in the past, (In a boiler, so it's not so evident!);It works a treat for me!
Hold against yourself on the fitting and use some brute force to make sure the fitting is tight. If this fails.... bung the system rather than a full drain down and get some PTFE on the olives!
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on the olive - one or two wraps only, on the "upper"end of the olive with overlap onto the bit of pipe that goes into the valve.
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