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On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:03:02 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 10/10/2016 20:50, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:29:53 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 10/10/2016 19:22, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:51:25 +0100, Rod Speed

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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
news On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:44:30 +0100, Bod
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On 10/10/2016 16:42, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:37:38 +0100, harry

wrote:

On Monday, 10 October 2016 15:47:11 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword
wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:43:18 +0100, Simon Mason

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On Sunday, 9 October 2016 21:58:23 UTC+1, Roger Mills wrote:
On 09/10/2016 21:00, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Simon Mason wrote:
On Sunday, 9 October 2016 14:53:44 UTC+1, Fevric J.
Glandules
wrote:
Hi,

we live in a very hard water area and the kitchen tap
is now "grinding" whenever used. It's one of these [1]

https://www.howdens.com/kitchen-coll...gle-level-tap/




Got a water softener last week for £1500 - that's a thing
of
the past
for me now.

Looked into the kettle today, clean as a whistle.
What a ******** you must live in.



If your water is that soft, let's hope that you haven't got
any
lead pipes!
--

100% Cu.

99% Cu, 1% CuO probably.


With lead solder.

Most plumbers use compression fittings, much quicker.

No they don't. Compression fittings are far more expensive and less
reliable.

Funny my house is ful of them and not one has failed in the 16 years
I've
been here. As for expense, how much of your time is taken to solder
a
joint?

Less time than when using a compression fitting when you know what
you
are
doing.

Bull****. Both involve cutting the pipe to the right length. After
that you just screw the thing on.

Peter, you don't know what you are talking about.

I've fitted many compression fittings, and there is no way someone could
solder anything as quickly as fitting those.

You're completely wrong.

It's bloody obvious soldering takes longer than tightening a nut.

Not when you know how to solder.