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On 10/10/2016 16:58, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
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

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On Monday, 10 October 2016 15:47:11 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword
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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
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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?

You are very obviously not a plumber. I *know* 100% that you are
wrong.
I used to use *end feed* fittings which are about a tenth of the
price
of compression joints. Soldering a joint doesn't take much more time
to
solder than using compression fittings. At least to a plumber it
doesn't.

Compression fittings take virtually no time at all,

Same with soldered fittings.

and don't require equipment and heat and so forth to use.

Irrelevant to a plumber.

Some people just like to do things "the tradition correct way" without
thinking.

And any plumber with even half a clue knows that the time
to do the joint is only a tiny part of the total time to do the
job and is the same for a plumber with soldered joints and
compression fittings, with soldered ones much cheaper
and arent going to ever need to be replaced when done
by someone who knows what they are doing.

Plumbers who have learnt how to do them want to make use of the
pointless
skill.

They do what is cheapest and is the best technology.

Compression fittings are for clowns like you that don't have a ****ing
clue.

They last forever too.

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never had a
****ing clue.

I've never seen one fail,

Plenty of others have.

Then thy were fitted badly. My house is proof they can be excellent.

and my house is full of them.

Because whoever did those was too stupid to use soldered.

Or sensible enough to save time and effort.

In fact I very rarely see soldered joints anywhere in anybody's house..

Because **** all are visible.

I'm not talking about visible.

It seems it's a small niche of plumbers who seem to like doing things the
hard way.

Nothing hard about it.

It's more effort than not doing anything. Place compression fitting against pipe, turn nut. Nothing at all. No tools, no effort.

--
A Muslim was sitting next to Paddy on a plane.
Paddy ordered a whisky.
The stewardess asked the Muslim if he'd like a drink.
He replied in disgust "I'd rather be raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips!"
Paddy handed his drink back and said
"Me too, I didn't know we had a choice!"