How much to change a TRV please?

[Softus]

Sod the colleges - they don't have to give any kind of warranty.

Equally useless is Agile's operating theatre concept of plumbing, where inside his head every task is carried in conditions as perfect as a Formula One engine factory.

Back in the real-world, PTFE tape is commonly used on the wet side of olives. And back in the bad old days before PTFE, many plumbers would smear jointing paste there instead.

Bizarrely, some people still favour the use of paste - they seem to like to make it difficult to undo the capnut, which becomes necessary when the paste dries out and the joint leaks.

 

[tonybhoy]

Sod the colleges - they don't have to give any kind of warranty.

Equally useless is Agile's operating theatre concept of plumbing, where inside his head every task is carried in conditions as perfect as a Formula One engine factory.

Back in the real-world, PTFE tape is commonly used on the wet side of olives. And back in the bad old days before PTFE, many plumbers would smear jointing paste there instead.

Bizarrely, some people still favour the use of paste - they seem to like to make it difficult to undo the capnut, which becomes necessary when the paste dries out and the joint leaks.

I never use tape on the wet side sometimes the tape stops the olive from bitting on the pipe. I'm a boss white man myself ,rarely have a leak and if I do it's just a quick nip with the spanner.

I was under the impression your were a plumber Softus?


I just know I'm going to regret this post

 

[Softus]

I never use tape on the wet side sometimes the tape stops the olive from bitting on the pipe.

How would you know if you never use tape?

Tape never causes a problem if you lightly crimp the olive on first.

I'm a boss white man myself ,rarely have a leak

I can't think of one single reason for ever putting with having any leak, ever. Ever.

 

[nickso]

Oh and now if a job is going to take you more than 45 minutes (that would be all my jobs then) phone despatch to inform them.So aswell as juggling the job with both hands you have to keep breaking off it to make phone calls to people who you might aswell be telling the widget is a 3 hr widget not a 45 minute one. No sense that the person you phoned has any way of making sense of the information you are giving them.

paul i realise as a contractor you dont have the power of VO but really you need to stand up for yourself. do you have terminal? if you are running over time you text them on the terminal and then promptly ignore all phone calls with a 5 digit shortdial number. phone calls to office monkeys are a waste of breath.

 

[nickso]

I never use tape on the wet side sometimes the tape stops the olive from bitting on the pipe.

How would you know if you never use tape?

Tape never causes a problem if you lightly crimp the olive on first.

I'm a boss white man myself ,rarely have a leak

I can't think of one single reason for ever putting with having any leak, ever. Ever.

cant see the need to tape a brand new olive but i often tape an old olive if its used on a new fitting, saves a re-bung if it does leak.

 

[Softus]

cant see the need to tape a brand new olive but i often tape an old olive if its used on a new fitting, saves a re-bung if it does leak.

I can't help you there, since you seem to live in that alternative reality wherein people sometimes have leaks.

 

[nickso]

cant see the need to tape a brand new olive but i often tape an old olive if its used on a new fitting, saves a re-bung if it does leak.

I can't help you there, since you seem to live in that alternative reality wherein people sometimes have leaks.

er excuse my drunken confusion but do you mean old olives on new fittings dont leak or new olives on anything dont leak? i dont want to sound like tony but your statement didnt make a great deal of sense to me in my current state.

 

[Agile]

I think that Softus lives in some kind of virtual world where he criticises anything that is not drained or taped!

 

[Softus]

Virtual world? Oh really? Coming from the person who doesn't do general plumbing?

I wish you were drained and taped.

 

[tonybhoy]

"How would you know if you never use tape? "



Ehr,cause I'm a plumber who fixes ,em, plumbing leaks



"Tape never causes a problem if you lightly crimp the olive on first."


Always thought a DIYer did that never a plumber


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I can't think of one single reason for ever putting with having any leak, ever. Ever.[/quote]

Sorry don't understand what you're saying here

 

[Forsh]

i live just outside Glasgow so i'm looking for about £400, if you don't get anything cheaper ler me know

Very droll, not amusing, no point...no need for you to be in this forum with such replies is there?

made me laugh!

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plumbing+Heating/Sundries/Pipe+Freezer+Kit+220ml/d20/sd2703/p38656

and toolstation is cheaper than screwfix for the freeze kit

 

[mattylad]

Stephen if your still here, drain the whole system down before doing this.

I was forgetting that once you try to remove the TRV water will want to come out of the pipe

Its still an easy enough job to do yourself & once done will give you confidence to tackle other small/similar jobs.

 

[Softus]

How would you know if you never use tape?

Ehr,cause I'm a plumber who fixes ,em, plumbing leaks

And, seemingly, who causes them too. Boss White my a*se.

Tape never causes a problem if you lightly crimp the olive on first.

Always thought a DIYer did that never a plumber

What you think people are, or what label you give them, is completely irrelevant. Only the success of the job matters.

I can't think of one single reason for ever putting with having any leak, ever. Ever.

Sorry don't understand what you're saying here

OK - I'll add the word that I inadvertently missed out - the one that you can't work out was missing...

I can't think of one single reason for ever putting up with having any leak, ever.

 

[tonybhoy]

Thanks for that Softus,my life is now complete

 

[Axel]

My experience tells me to drain off as much as reasonable time permits (certainly de-pressurise) , have a lot of dry towel ready, pull off the old olive and change all parts of the valve (including the bit that screws into the radiator). Doing it all as properly as one can can may take just a little more time, but it is risky to rush it and then have to drain down six times when you discover that the old backnuts didn't quite match the new valves and were tightening against the end of thread rather than the olive, as has happened to me on an older system. And BTW, LSX seems to be the best modern joint compound to stick onto an olive. Saves need to risk overtightening.