>> Burst pipe repair kit
My dad was a Plumber, worked for Manchester Corporation in the years before copper pipe was invented. He taught me how to solder a copper pipe into the end of a lead pipe using a hardwood bobbin to splay out the lead. I can still do it but there's no demand now. He used to wipe the molten solder with his bare thumb to neaten it...I always used a piece of card !...Wimp !
I keep a box of 10mm and 15mm fittings together with a length of both pipe sizes in the workshop........saved me and the neighbours a few times out of hours.
The outside tap split it's pipe over the cold spell. needed to turn off on the pavement but it was all iced up so I crimped the pipe before the burst a couple of times with a mole wrench to lessen the flow, cut it and stuck a compession stop-end on. It's held up to now.
Ted
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