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Today I tried of fit a new monoblock tap in our kitchen sink. All going well until I tried to attach the flexible pipes from the monoblock to the water pipes. Wrong size connector! Thus ensued a trip to B&Q (only place open) and I got an elbow connector that I was assured would fit the pipes and the flexible hose ends - no go. So now I have no way of turning the water back on without it pouring all over the kitchen (I couldn't re-install the old tap as I had to cut the pipes from it) and a very unimpressed wife.
My bodgetastic solution: Blank off the existing elbow connector by cutting a circle of inner tube, putting it on top of the open end of the elbow, put a 10p piece on top of that, it's exactly the right size, and screw the now blanked off cap back on. It's been 30 mins. so far and no leaks.
10p well spent...for now...
What no spoons?
I was telling my wife that I was so proud I was going to post about it on STW and told her about the integral part kitchen cutlery should really play in a true STW bodge. So my pride is tempered with the knowledge that I haven't quite made the grade yet.
What size pipes do you have if a 10p fits inside the fitting!
Do you live in a Factory 🙂
The 10p fits on the open end of the elbow connector, not the end of the pipe. No pics as I'm jiggered if I'm going to undo it all just to take a pic.
If I lived in a factory I'd have lots of tools and bits and pieces to fix it properly. But who wants a proper job when you can bodge it.
The 10p fits on the open end of the elbow connector,
The bit where the pipe would go presumably?
Reckon that would make the pipe at least 22mm
In my case, me! The previous owner of our house had a joint in the bathroom plumbing bodged together with two layers of tiles holding it in place. I found this out when I took the old tiles off...who wants a proper job when you can bodge it
Always have some blanking caps ready when doing any plumbing job, I keep a pair of 22 and 15mm speed fits spare for this sort of eventuality. Very cheap to buy and just slot on with no spanners so ideal.
Reckon that would make the pipe at least 22mm
The end of the elbow connector is the size of a 10p, there is an end cap that screws onto this that has a hole in it slightly larger than the pipe, the end cap grips the plastic olive thingamabob on the pipe and screws onto the end of the elbow.
Like this:
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In my case, me! The previous owner of our house had a joint in the bathroom plumbing bodged together with two layers of tiles holding it in place. I found this out when I took the old tiles off...
OK, I agree, I was being facetious. We too have suffered from dodgy plumbing, not my work, resulting in a flooded hallway and a collapsed ceiling on the ground floor. But there is a certain satisfaction in a successful bodge.
Our house had a near tepid shower when we moved in.
Transpires that previous owners had moved the bathroom round a couple of times. So the hot supply did not go the 6' from the boiler. It went down, across kitchen, up wall, down into laundry, under floor, up wall into ceiling, across attic roof edge, into middle of house wall, back across attic and down to shower.
I added new junctions to bath tap supply, and note we have red hot shower, supplied all of 6' from boiler, for a couple of hours work.
The previous owners missus is not impressed - one of the reasons they bought expensive new house was for ten years she had cold showers... 😆
Ah, good old Hep2O.
As robdob says, always keep a pair of Speedfit blanking caps for just such an emergency, my new kitchen sinks taps have been blanked like this for about a year now.
Speedfit should have a suitable adaptor, take it you don't have a Screwfix or Toolstation nearby?
I've fitted isolation valves to every tap and most radiators. Makes maintenance much simpler....
Good bit of bodging 8)
Some spare [url= http://www.screwfix.com/p/jg-speedfit-stop-end-15mm-pack-of-2/94176 ]speedfit end caps[/url] in't tool box could have won you quicker brownie points
Foot flaps speaks truth IME.
Years ago the chain on my GSX250 came off and bent the clutch pushrod, this meant that it disgorged all it's all just outside Skipton. After my long suffering Dad once again rescued me and said nail to Bradford I set upon fixing it...
Turns out that replacing the pushrod means splitting the crankcases, it also turns out that one of the previous owners had not only already discovered this but worked out a bodge!
Like the OP, a ten pence piece. This time with a hole in the middle, filled with bathroom sealant with a piece of tin plate riveted over the top. As it had worked once I just followed suit, top bodge that man 🙂
OP, why did you not just put isolator valves on the pipes then connect the flexi hoses to them. No 10p pieces required.
Boy done good - May your kitchen be dry (come dawn)..
Oh and - Pray for constant water pressure 😯
Top bodging!
I am now super paranoid about being able to cut-off leaky sections of plumbing.... isolation valves everywhere.
My bodge held overnight. I'm now in London for the week, leaving my wife with a tapless kitchen, fortunately she is a woman of great forbearance and good temper (she has to be, she's married to me).
A competent professional will now be engaged, and asked to fit isolation valves.
I've fitted isolation valves to every tap and most radiators. Makes maintenance much simpler....
I also have drains on all my rads. Will hopefully make for easy decorating.