Fixed!
Went for the burst pipe repair kit as mentioned in OP except it was £13 - not sure where I got £7 from. That included a pipe cutter and a length of flexible pipe with compression fit ends, but I thought the pipe was too big and obvious for a small burst so I also bought a short rigid section with nuts on each end for compression fitting. Total cost approx £20.
(They did had have separate pipe cutters, but the cheap one was too big to rotate all the way around the pipe (which was still attached to the wall), and the smaller one was £17.)
So I managed to cut out the burst section, which was about an inch long, surprisingly easily. The instructions on the nutted pipe section said to then slide one of the nuts over the cut pipe. That's where the problems started - I was sure my pipes were 16mm as there was no way the 15mm nut was going to go over it.
Eventually I wondered if the ice pressure had enlarged the pipe near the burst as well as actually causing the burst, so cut a bit more away. This time the nut just about went onto the pipe, as did the 'olive' although it wasn't easy. Had to do the same on the other section of pipe. Then attached the nuts to the rigid section and did it all up - job done.
Only took about 4 hours...
Last edited by: Focus on Mon 1 Mar 10 at 12:54
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