Temporary blank ends

[Olitaylor]

Hi all,

looking to remove two small rads that are both next to each other on a spur in my kitchen (so I can get behind and remove tiling and re-plaster ,before getting a heating engineer in to replace with one larger and more efficient rad when he swaps my boiler).

I am comfortable draining the system and removing the rads, but I need to temporarily blank off the spur for a couple of weeks until the engineer is here to do the boiler and fit the new rad.

I am planning to remove the rads, cut the spur pipes so they're out the way and push on some plastic blank ends so I can work on the walls. Hoping to re-fill and run the heating between doing this and re-fitting.

My question is, are the blank-ends suitable for a temporary repair, while still giving me use of heating?

 

[Burnerman]

Yep, so long as the pipes are cut square, aren't chrome or distorted in shape, these are fine.
John

 

[Nige F]

so use a pipeslice ,not a hacksaw

 

[Olitaylor]

Thanks for your responses guys... I'll be giving it a go later..