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



"Marland" wrote in message
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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.

Never seen any that last very long at all even when kept in a drawer inside
the house.

Some plastic sheet lasts fine, most obviously with the thick stuff used
under
a concrete slab on the ground when its left lying around inside a house
and even cheap ground sheets do last a long time inside the house. I have
a couple used as curtains that have lasted 45 years.