Leaking Gutter - Not

[Johnmelad]

Got asked to attend what the customer thought was a leaking gutter

Turns out it was a leaking manifold for the heating, two pictures enclosed.

As you can see in picture one the pipes going into the manifold are straining to the left and four of them are weeping. There is no slack in the pipes and I was wondering how to release the strain on them.

What would you people do?

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• Johnmelad
• 3 Mar 2013
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• Johnmelad
• 3 Mar 2013
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[hazetimesfive]

extend the pipes?

 

[Johnmelad]

extend the pipes?

Yep that was what I had in mind but how would you extend them? Splice in a short length of pipe or join the pipe to a piece of copper - elbow - copper pipe to manifold? Are elbows an option?

 

[John506]

What about 90 degree compression swivels on the ends, then the swivel connected to the manifold?

 

[Burnerman]

Personally I'd consider replacing the plastic lengths into the manifold with swept copper, connecting up with compresion fittings when the plastic goes straight. Funny how these things can be dry for days, and then the drip appears....
John

 

[bolshy]

You could try plastic
HEP and JGSpeed do stem elbows, I think HEP do offset stem elbows too...
I take it the manifold's a standard olive compression joint? Maybe the pipe stiffeners aren't in there.......

 

[Charnwood]

swivel connected to the manifold

Swivels will be BSP. The manifold almost certainly will not be.