Leaking Pipework

[K-Man]

Hi all,

Complete plumbing novice here hence the following question

Tried to take a radiator off today, give it a little too much force and now the pipework to the rad valve is leaking (where the pipework enters the valve). Is it a case of putting in a new olive (cant nip it up anymore - its solid ((and painted many many times)). Please help before my wife divorces me cos of my DIY disaster history.

Thanks

 

[howy1]

Hi , Did you have two pairs of grips one holding valve body while undoing bit nut to rad ! you may have kinked the pipe you would have to drain down to inspect and maybe put new olive on , hope this helps

 

[ItsOverFlo]

Alternatively you could try a pipe freezing kit. Saves the drain down and re-fill.
It does what it says on the tin.

 

[K-Man]

Okay, but what am I inspecting? is it too see if the pipe is flush? I feel stupid to get a plumber in to fix something so simple (i hope)

Regards

 

[howy1]

If you got to the stage of dropping the nut off you could probably pull pipe from rad valve and as you say inspect , it should be obvious if it damaged ie it should be straight and smooth for want of a better descript

 

[Agile]

If the nut has not been tightened then you should be able to loosen it and then tighten it.

It might help if you use a gas torch to warm it up first before loosening it.

Tony