Many years ago a plumber installed water into my utility room using MDPE blue pipe,
I asked him to run a branch and leave enough pipe for me to connect an outside tap to.
For some unknown reason he cut the pipe off, 2 inches above the ground, this made it rather tight for me to fit a shut off valve to the pipe end, but I managed it.
This winter when closing the valve it developed a leak from the bottom nut, I am not keen on putting grips on this nut in case it wrings the short 2 inch pipe coming out of the floor.
Any suggestions on sealing the bottom nut would be appreciated, when the weather improves I am considering removing the rather large shut off valve and replacing it with a MDPE pipe reducer to copper connection and then putting an small inline valve in the copper pipe, this will I think reduce any pressure on the 2 inch of pipe when I want to shut the water supply to the outside tap off.
I asked him to run a branch and leave enough pipe for me to connect an outside tap to.
For some unknown reason he cut the pipe off, 2 inches above the ground, this made it rather tight for me to fit a shut off valve to the pipe end, but I managed it.
This winter when closing the valve it developed a leak from the bottom nut, I am not keen on putting grips on this nut in case it wrings the short 2 inch pipe coming out of the floor.
Any suggestions on sealing the bottom nut would be appreciated, when the weather improves I am considering removing the rather large shut off valve and replacing it with a MDPE pipe reducer to copper connection and then putting an small inline valve in the copper pipe, this will I think reduce any pressure on the 2 inch of pipe when I want to shut the water supply to the outside tap off.
