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Default OT The joys of gas main renewal.

On 20/11/15 11:13, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2015-11-19, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

When they did my parents' road a few years ago, none of the pipes to
the houses were replaced - they just relined them by blowing a 60'
condom down each pipe and replacing the main stop cock with one which
gripped the condom after they cut the end off. So only change you saw
in the house was a new main gas cock.


fnarr fnarr


I always check my cock works on a regular basis.

Nothing worse that needing to use it in a hurry and it's broken.