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Thanks folks. Charnwood - Hepworths advice IS to use copper olives. Which is what I've been doing. Shall I remake the compression joints I've done without PTFE, even on copper? I won't be able to replace the olives, at least not easily. This compression joint is onto a very short piece...

Did a load of plumbing a couple of weeks ago. Just finished doing my teeth, turned Hot and Cold taps off upstairs. They are both lever taps, a quarter turn from on to off. Turned them off together, a bit sharpish. Sure enough, spurting water sound in kitchen. Funny thing, I'm always telling...

Done it like that. It's actually within 40mm of the stop cock! Might scatter a few more about the place as the spirit moves me. Thanks.

Sorry, wrong forum. Thanks for the advice anyway.

Advice seems to be to put drain off immediately after the stop cock. Does it have to be? Doing it like that puts my stop cock really close to the floor and even more awkward than they usually are. The split between ground floor and upstairs happens about 10 inches from the ground floor...

Advice seems to be drain off immediately after the stop cock. Does it have to be? Doing it like that puts my stop cock really close to the floor and even more awkward than they usually are. The split between ground floor and upstairs happens about 10 inches from the ground floor floor...

That's great, thanks. I think I'm pretty much complying with all of that, at least where I'm not I'm not making it any worse than what the installers did. Considering they put the gas pipe through two walls, unsleeved, and cemented it in, I've got less concerns about my work than I have about...

Thanks for your help. I didn't really mean regs about the order of water pipes, but thanks for the information. Is that a regulation then? That the cold water shouldn't be above hot pipes in a horizontal run? Nobody told the plumbers who put them in then. The regs I meant were running water...

There is a screwfix but they dont sell Regin. Just Floplast Silicone spray, which I'm guessing is the same as the 3 in 1 I've already got. Will that not do? Remember this isn't potable water. Thanks

Flux as lubricant!! Are some people really that stupid?? The silicone spray I've got here is the 3 in 1 brand. I was hoping to get going tonight, so was thinking about something that they'll sell at B&Q.

Thanks. I've never notice the water being anywhere near tepid, and where the pipes run horizontally they are not boxed in or anything, and they're in a cool part of the house, so heat is probably dissipating. I usually fill the kettle from the hot, and if I'm going to drink cold first thing I...

I'm connecting some new Hep2O pipe to some old Hep2O fittings. I'll be remaking some of the joints. The local plumbers merchant doesn't sell the Hepworths lubricant. What alternatives does anybody suggest. I've taken one of the joints apart, and it was a bit cruddy, to be honest. Cleaned...

Thanks. Only joking about the clips, obviously. The pipes as installed, by heating engineers, are run exactly the way you say they shouldn't. A horizontal run of five pipes, from top to bottom: CH Cold water Gas Hot water CH Never noticed the cold getting at all warm, except for...

Not really. But almost certainly electric. But thanks for that info. So I could just run them along the floor? Think of the fortune it would save me in pipe clips!! Unfortunately I can't actually do that at the moment, because that's where the current cooker is. I'm tempted for now to sink...

Thanks for the response. Thinking again about it, plastic is probably better, if I can get the connectors away from where the oven will go. At least with plastic I can gently bend it the way I want it whereas with copper I'll have to do lots of bends, which I'm used to doing but not as easy...

I'm re-routing some water pipes. CH Flow and Return, Hot and cold supplies. I've just realised that I'm running them, horizontally along a wall in the kitchen, where there's probably going to be an electric oven, built in. With either an induction or gas hob above. Questions: 1. Do...

I'm re-routing some water pipes. CH Flow and Return, Hot and cold supplies. I've just realised that I'm running them, horizontally along a wall in the kitchen, where there's probably going to be an electric oven, built in. With either an induction or gas hob above. Questions: 1. Do...

Sorry, seem to have started the same thread twice. Pic in other thread. Anybody know how to drop a thread?

Thanks Dan. Here you go: What you can't see is that just off to the left is the 90deg compression elbow that I need to cut off. I could extend the copper by soldering a straight joint onto it. But it's about 6 inches from the MDPE joint. I've done a fair bit of soldering, but I'm not...