Dave wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
Dave wrote:
John Rumm wrote:

Dave wrote:
Thanks for your reply.

I've given it a go, but the pipes are not budging. I'll try again
after we have eaten.

Can you cut the pipe off below, and worry about getting the ends
out of the shower later?

I suspect that the fault might not be repairable, so that is an
option to look at.

Every time I am in that room and looking at the shower, I can see
the enormous amount of work to recover the job, if we have to get a
new shower pump :-(

Chop off the pipes low enough and fit service valves to cap them.
That way you can reinstate quickly if needed ;-)

When we had the bathroom done, the plumber didn't like the gate
valves I had used to isolate the bathroom and he told me he was going
to remove them. I told him that I had to be able to isolate she
shower when I wanted to, so he put a pair of valves behind the bath
panel (the shower is over the tap end of the bath.)

Your plumber was dead right, gate valves are the spawn of satan.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk