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So there I was last night relaxing with a few plumbing videos when suddenly I was famous! I was the star of one of Tom's latest howto videos! I couldn't believe it. Thanks a lot for that - its definitely helped me and I hope it helps others too. It was exactly what I meant.

The name came from a suggestion from your learned colleague, a certain Mr Puller. I don't think he was using it to be kind particularly, but I liked it so here I am. Don't know why but that thread seems to have gone. Maybe something to do with registering as "leaks" then changing name to this one. Anyway, doesn't matter.

Now, I'm not that daft as to try to solder without pipe but it is the sort of thing I might have tried in the past. I'm currently (very slowly) doing the first fix for a new bathroom so had quite a bit of pipe to run from cylinder and cold water tank. I ended up buying 18M of 22mm and 3M of 28mm and I've nearly used it all which for me is a lot. Still it was more fun than chopping a 110mm branch into my soil stack.

Anyway, last thing to say for now is thanks once again and to mention that I asked two plumbers questions over on diynot (boo hiss)
 and I got less than half an answer to one of them. Fair enough really since noone has a right to have their questions answered for free but I bet if I asked them here there'd be a much better chance of getting a decent answer. If I do and they get answered I'd certainly put a link into the diynot thread pointing over here in case anyone wants a proper answer. That would also be me doing a little to make this site even more popular - as it should be. Every little helps as they say.

I'm glad you've found the right place for proper, no nonsense advice from proper plumbers, there's no elongated, bullshit talk on here, its cut to the chase advice for free,

That's not good Tom. Annoys me that folk get banned from forums especially as it is usually them that has posted all the good stuff in the first place.

I'm posting less and less there. What did they ban you for - promoting your own site?

Anyway, one of my last posts was this: If I'm lucky enough to get a decent answer I'll edit my post over there so people know where to come (right here of course) for the right answer.



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Two things I've been thinking about and don't know the answer to. They are about two different things but didn't want to clutter up the forum with two threads. Anyway here they are!



1/ About stopcock vs lever valve. Why have a "stopcock" on the internal rising main? Wouldn't a full bore lever valve be easier to operate? Interestingly, the water company's external isolation valve is plastic and shuts off in about a quarter of a turn so maybe that is like a ball valve?



2/ What is the point of a half crossover. e.g. this:

www.toolstation.com/shop/p60544

I mean what are they mostly used for and is one side of it just regular copper pipe - the other end being a normal end feed fitting? Perhaps I should get one to have a play. I've used the full crossovers a few times but just don't get what these are for.



Thanks a lot to anyone giving me answers to these two!

I’ve been banned several times from DIYdoughnuts, you maybe surprised to learn!!  Yes me, you’d think they’d be grateful for having me??!!!  Last time I got banned from the Combustion Chamber Pot & the main forum, for saying Telly Tony Agile & Jimmy Savile shared a chocolate coloured boy when he worked at the BBC.  I think Tony is a Mod with a limited sense of humour.

I must be honest, I wouldn’t mind getting back into the Chamber Pot as there was some very knowledgeable guys in there, but hey it’s no great miss.

Yes. Can't remember his name, but I think he rigged up an angle grinder with something like a circular saw blade. Proceeded to use it to cut some tree branches, it kicked back, and took a big slice out of his neck. It's lesson to us all to respect power tools, and never use them for something they weren't intended for.