Hi, wondering how other people do this:
have just replacing the filling loop for my central heating as the old one was weeping from the check valve. The bit I had real trouble with was getting the isolation valve for the heating side tightened up enough. Normally with compression fittings I use two spanner’s and tighten both sides up simultaneously so the forces work against each other and hold the fitting steady. In this case as I was only tightening the one end, I found it really hard to tighten up, the whole fitting kept spinning on the pipe. Got there eventually though by holding onto it with a stilson. In hindsight I should have got a better quality fitting that has a squared off section to help with this kind of thing.
Does anyone have any tips to make this easier next time, other than just buy a better quality fitting?
thanks
have just replacing the filling loop for my central heating as the old one was weeping from the check valve. The bit I had real trouble with was getting the isolation valve for the heating side tightened up enough. Normally with compression fittings I use two spanner’s and tighten both sides up simultaneously so the forces work against each other and hold the fitting steady. In this case as I was only tightening the one end, I found it really hard to tighten up, the whole fitting kept spinning on the pipe. Got there eventually though by holding onto it with a stilson. In hindsight I should have got a better quality fitting that has a squared off section to help with this kind of thing.
Does anyone have any tips to make this easier next time, other than just buy a better quality fitting?
thanks