Right... So long story short as I'm frankly knackered!
I needed to flush the CH system, opened the drain valve and found it blocked. Poked a wire-hanger into it to clear it (which worked) - but then found out the rubber seal was long dried and broken. As such, the drain valve wouldn't close anymore.
No issue, popped by wickes, bought a new one and started heating the old one (yorkshire fittings) with a torch to get the fitting off. Sadly, the fitting had been there a good few years, and instead of the solder melting and the fitting sliding off, the fitting broken in half.
I've temporarily patched it, but need to replace the T-junction it's connected to (the T fitting has a piece of the drain valve stuck in the 15mm end).
I was thinking of cutting out the old T, and replacing it with a new T and some new pipe.
Problem is, there isn't much space on either side to deform the pipe to allow me to slide the pipework into a new fitting... (and it looks like it's 3/4" pipe instead of 22mm... sigh)
Ideas?
M.
I needed to flush the CH system, opened the drain valve and found it blocked. Poked a wire-hanger into it to clear it (which worked) - but then found out the rubber seal was long dried and broken. As such, the drain valve wouldn't close anymore.
No issue, popped by wickes, bought a new one and started heating the old one (yorkshire fittings) with a torch to get the fitting off. Sadly, the fitting had been there a good few years, and instead of the solder melting and the fitting sliding off, the fitting broken in half.
I've temporarily patched it, but need to replace the T-junction it's connected to (the T fitting has a piece of the drain valve stuck in the 15mm end).
I was thinking of cutting out the old T, and replacing it with a new T and some new pipe.
Problem is, there isn't much space on either side to deform the pipe to allow me to slide the pipework into a new fitting... (and it looks like it's 3/4" pipe instead of 22mm... sigh)
Ideas?
M.