Do you know why this pipe is squashed?
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I've got plenty of those in my old lead gas pipe work...
In my case, the cut pipes continue on, and can be traced up to about 2/3 the height of the wall, where there would have been gas lamps at some point in the past.
It was a common practice with lead pipe, and if it passes a tightness test, there should be little concern.
But as yours seems to be copper, a soldered on stop end would usually have been used, or the tee replaced.
Though it's possibly flooded with solder, I will defer to an RGI.
In my case, the cut pipes continue on, and can be traced up to about 2/3 the height of the wall, where there would have been gas lamps at some point in the past.
It was a common practice with lead pipe, and if it passes a tightness test, there should be little concern.
But as yours seems to be copper, a soldered on stop end would usually have been used, or the tee replaced.
Though it's possibly flooded with solder, I will defer to an RGI.
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Tightness test would be the first thing but once an RGI saw that then they would be obliged to make good.
Was an old fudged way of doing it - flattening the pipe then fill the end with solder, did the job, when that was good enough. Definitely not up to spec these days though, so if seen it should be cut out and made good.
Was an old fudged way of doing it - flattening the pipe then fill the end with solder, did the job, when that was good enough. Definitely not up to spec these days though, so if seen it should be cut out and made good.
Back in the mist's of time did loads like that so we could drop test gas carcass on new build.
Obviously all chopped off when second fixing,.
Obviously all chopped off when second fixing,.
A mate lives in a house that used to have a gravity fed heating system. He moved over to a pressurised system. Shortly after he had water gushing through his ceiling. Turned out that some one had done the solder/crimp on a pipe. It was fine for years but clearly wasn't adequate for a pressurised system.
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