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  • Doh – leak in cold feed to sink. Compression or pushfit connectors?
  • sharkbait
    Free Member

    Found a pinhole leak on a cold feed to a sink which I need to fix today.
    Already got pipe but just deciding whether to go for push fit connectors or compression?
    Access is a bit limited as the hot supply is right next to the cold.

    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    Push fit are easy and work

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Pushfit would be my choice unless you’re sticking it under a floor somewhere.

    neilwheel
    Free Member

    Pushfit work fine.

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Solder 😉

    Stoner
    Free Member

    the entirety of Casa del Stoner is plumbed with Hep2O pushfit. No problems.
    But they’re ugly as sin so never in sight.

    Oddly though, whenever I do work as a favour for anyone else I always use solder. go figure 😉

    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    Oddly though, whenever I do work as a favour for anyone else I always use solder. go figure

    I think it’s called ‘showing off’ 😀

    sharkbait
    Free Member

    Cheers Rachel 👿
    Fair enough, push fit it is. Never a dull moment….

    *makes note to keep some push fit fittings in the tool box just in case

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Is it onto copper? Don’t need the inserts in that case.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    I solder everything and have only used one push fit adaptor, and that one is weeping ever so slightly. It’s behind a kitchen cupboard and I only noticed the drips when I was re-fitting the sink after sanding down the worktop to re-coat. It wasn’t a particularly cheap one either…

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    and to counter that my downstairs is all hep2 with push fits and inserts … upstairs is soldered copper

    the only leak i have had was in a copper bend where downstairs meets upstairs that had been soldered badly by a plumber – pin hole in the joint.

    Its now compression fitting due to not having soldering equipment handy at the time.

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