Black plastic Cold Water feed - solvent weld? Help!

[bathstyle]

Not sure if you are being serious here or taking the pizz

aaaaaanyway, the OP is describing the old solvent weld only plastic water pipe, you try to fit an insert in it and firstly it wont fit, secondly, a compression fitting will shatter the pipe.

 

[bathstyle]

This is the stuff that was put into the houses round my way:-

http://www.durapipe.co.uk/Product/Detail.asp?BID=6

I think the stuff the OP has is called Polyorc

 

[kevplumb]

This is the stuff that was put into the houses round my way:-

http://www.durapipe.co.uk/Product/Detail.asp?BID=6

I think the stuff the OP has is called Polyorc

your way mabye

yes it shatters thats WHY you put the insert in

obviously different

 

[bathstyle]

//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=218054&highlight=#218054

Not had a chance to read all of it yet though

I used to have a few of these fittings in the van and the glue, both types, ABS and uPVC, chucked them out now though.

From memory, there is a glue that covers both materials and another than is only suitable for one of them

 

[doitall]

First you need to identify the pipe, it will be marked down the side.
BSS sell GF pipe and fittings in metric and imperial.

 

[nicknox]

Polyorc?
The council used loads of the stuff round here in the 70's. Supposed to leave it 24hrs to set after glueing. We didn't have time (during maintenance calls) and the tenants wouldn't have been too happy either with no water. 3hrs, job done. Never had any leaks

Crap stuff though, rip it out.

 

[bathstyle]

Considering I was born in the 70's I have only ever been near it during refurbs.

All I will suggest to the OP is that he should be very careful about going near it with any kind of compression fitting. i suggest using the proper glued fittings

 

[doitall]

This is the stuff that was put into the houses round my way:-

http://www.durapipe.co.uk/Product/Detail.asp?BID=6

I think the stuff the OP has is called Polyorc

BSS still list Durapipe.

 

[twgas]

we have, or at least had, some of the compression type and it's cr4p, went to change a cylinder and the broke off at floor level, leaving a quote for a repipe was the only solution.
GET RID ASAP

 

[Nige F]

Done a search on here and came up with nothing...

My father is doing up a run down property. Under the floor he has found a CW Supply pipe to kitchen etc,
...

so it`s the incoming cold main...rip it out back to the stopcock and lay some blue MDPE pastic under the floor...cheap as chips...correct pipe nowadays and fittings available. Wouldn`t trust that other stuff

 

[kevindgas]

You don't use inserts with the old solvent stuff, or compression for that matter.

you maybe don't but as kevplumb says use a plastic insert and fitting and you won't get a leak.

try grahams as our local branch carries stock of the most popular sizes of adaptors (take a small sample and match it up)

 

[bathstyle]

What size fitting do you use? it's not 15mm.

The last stuff I came across was so brittle that you wouldn't go anywhere near it with a compression, could be different stuff in different regions??

 

[doitall]

You can gets different DINS (Wall thicknesses)

 

[AND1234]

Right, decision made.

Thanks for all the advise, but I think it'll all have to go! I'm also told that as well as being brittle, mice also love it!

Anyone had experience of replacing plastic pipe due to mice chewing it? I'm told its an issue with all plastic pipe, even the new stuff...

 

[doitall]

Right, decision made.

Thanks for all the advise, but I think it'll all have to go! I'm also told that as well as being brittle, mice also love it!

Anyone had experience of replacing plastic pipe due to mice chewing it? I'm told its an issue with all plastic pipe, even the new stuff...

Vermin very rarely touch the old ABS, PVC pipes .

The do like Armaflex lagging, and Hep2o plastic pipe though.