Brian Gaff wrote

After some experience of trying to do pipework when young, my tip of the
day is get a plumber in unless its a simple waste pipe issue...

Mad, yorkshire fittings and modern plastic water supply stuff is trivially
easy.


"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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Added a new radiator at the weekend, to a vented system which I had
recently added new inhibitor. New rad is on top floor and I had laid
on the pipework previously, so only a towel rail needed draining,
and the expansion tank. Not wanting to lose the inhibitor in the
expansion tank, I wanted to plug the outlet. Hunted around, and then
hit on the idea of using the plug of silicone which sets in the nozzle
of a silicone gun tube. Blew the plug out backwards with a compressed
air can, and it worked perfectly.

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