In article , Archibald Tarquin
Blenkinsopp Esq wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2019 04:01:06 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:



"Marland" wrote in message
...
Richard Tobin wrote:
Behind a panel in my house is the exposed end of a long-disused waste
pipe - quite likely there was once a sink there - which I suspect of
being the source of an occasional bad smell.

Presumably I should cap it, but as you can see from this photo it's
not a neat end:

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/pipe-end.jpg

The outside diameter is about 7cm.

There are flexible rubber caps for sale, e.g.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cloverleaf-...dp/B078HHNFHS/

but I doubt it could be attached securely. Would a piece of some
kind of flexible rubber sheet and a jubilee clip do the trick?

Reasonable quality plastic bag and a cable tie would do it just as
well.

Nope, plastic bags don’t last long.

One does try. I often put my pennorth in, but you can guarantee a few IQ
zeros will pop up with something implausable anyway.

One would have to have led a very sheltered life to suggest the plastic
bag approach. I do wonder what peoples motives are when they provide
such "advice".

'Plastic bags' come in all sorts of qualities.

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