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Title: B***y hose pipe
Post by rabbit_rabbit on Jun 7^th, 2004, 7:49pm

OK. Have hose pipe with outside tap. OK for years. Using one of those awful things that go back and forth recently and - errr really whimpy.

So, hose pipe is tangled within reel? Nope. OK. so machine is fill of cr4p, clean it out - no good stays same.
OK hose pipe cut short se waht thta does - nuffin stil whimpy.

OK Plumbers what's up? Is it the tap, the washer, the isolator tap inside house. Pressure is OK within house.

I await the words of wisdom from he Gods.

RR

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by ColG on Jun 7^th, 2004, 9:49pm

most likely to be the tap washer, or the pipe could be frozen( :D)

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by big_all on Jun 8^th, 2004, 12:07am

oooooh ray its the bottle of pop not the pipe
youve got to put in the freezer ;) ;)

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by rabbit_rabbit on Jun 8^th, 2004, 8:32am

lol BA!!

OK a cr4p posting I know BUT do these 'check valve' thingies play up? Pressure was OK now its not.

RR

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by woodsmith on Jun 9^th, 2004, 10:39pm

Ray, check valves in taps are very susceptible to frost damage, has it been frozen up in the past?

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by rabbit_rabbit on Jun 10^th, 2004, 8:10am

Now THAT I do like - my plumbing question being answered by me old chippy mate - woodlice!!

THANK you VERY much Keith ya great - I think plumbers don't stop so low as to answer such a question!

And ya probably right, yes it will have almost certainly been subjected to being frozen. Would it be best to replace the entire outside tap?

In future I suppose I should turn the water off within the house to the tap (it does have a isolating tap).

Ray

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by woodsmith on Jun 10^th, 2004, 8:27am

Ray we woodlice need to be multi talented :D

I have just replaced 2 of these taps; I don't think you can get new valves???

If you do turn it off in the winter you need to make sure you have got all the water out of the tap.

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by rabbit_rabbit on Jun 10^th, 2004, 8:38am

OK I will bite Woodlice - so how do I ensure all the water is out of the tap? Suck it out?

Ray

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by woodsmith on Jun 10^th, 2004, 8:57am

Yes but you have to get someone to take a photo of you "in the act of sucking" and post it on the forum ;D

You need a drain cock at the lowest level of the pipe then turn the water off at the isolator, open the drain and open the tap and all the water drains out.

You could always get a plumber, I saw your post, �150 for 40 minutes :o we are in the wrong job.

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by splinter on Jun 11^th, 2004, 7:36pm

wood smith,
carpentry its a bit of a religious thing isnt it,

where all honest true men end up. yesteryear preisthood today carpentry ;)

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by woodsmith on Jun 11^th, 2004, 9:54pm

splinter we do have a precedent set by someone who went before us.

Someone who was a carpenter and a generally good fellow. And I am not taking about Tommy Walsh ;)

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by thescruff on Jun 11^th, 2004, 10:05pm

wrote on Jun 11^th, 2004, 9:54pm:

splinter we do have a precedent set by someone who went before us.

Someone who was a carpenter and a generally good fellow. And I am not taking about Tommy Walsh ;)

But if that were true, why did he put knots in wood ?

or; was it to pi$$ the plumbers off. ;D

scruff

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by woodsmith on Jun 11^th, 2004, 10:11pm

Scruff the knots are there to remind us that nothing is perfect.

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by thescruff on Jun 11^th, 2004, 10:19pm

wrote on Jun 11^th, 2004, 10:11pm:

Scruff the knots are there to remind us that nothing is perfect.

No plumbers in them days then lol.

scruff

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by John Davies on Jun 30^th, 2004, 5:50pm

No plumbers in those days - so who built the Romans aquaducts - and supplied towns off some of those with lead piping?!

John

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by HandyMac on Jul 1^st, 2004, 6:29pm

wrote on Jun 11^th, 2004, 9:54pm:

Someone who was a carpenter and a generally good fellow. And I am not taking about Tommy Walsh ;)

Oi! Leave Tommy Walsh out of it - he's my hero! ;)

Andrew

Title: Re: B***y hose pipe
Post by billythekid on Jul 3^rd, 2004, 11:39pm

Quote:

No plumbers in those days - so who built the Romans aquaducts - and supplied towns off some of those with lead piping?!

umm.... the Romans?