On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:11:11 +0100, PoP
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:27:40 GMT, (Simon
Avery) wrote:

Or the Faq still has the "Bread trick", I think?

Whilst I can see the bread trick could work, it wouldn't have done for
me. Reason being that there was something like an 18in head of water
above the tee which I wanted to unsolder - that would be a lot of
bread, and no way could I get this down past the tee anyway.

Sucking the water out with an Aquavac did the business on this
occasion. I think I got about a pint and a half out of the pipe using
that trick.

The simple solution is to bung the vent and feed pipes in the attic, or
wherever (see elsewhere for details) and cut the pipe, catching the 1/2 pint
or so that flows out into a container. An automatic pipe cutter will cut a
pipe within an inch of a parallel wall, and is less that a tenner. You then
might need a straight coupler to repair the cut pipe - less than 75p.

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Phil Addison
The uk.d-i-y FAQ is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/
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