Any of you lot struggled fitting plastic guttering fittings together. Try
spaying with silicon lubricatining. Works like a dream. Don't get it one
your hand, no grip.

In article , Keith_765
wrote:
Any of you lot struggled fitting plastic guttering fittings
together. Try spaying with silicon lubricatining. Works like a
dream. Don't get it one your hand, no grip.

Also on the guttering front, I have found that my mitre saw does a
great job of doing nice clean square cuts on white squareline
guttering and downpipes. My initial thought was that the friction
between blade and plastic might cause melting but the set of the
blade is enough to ensure this doesn't happen.

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In article , Keith_765
wrote:
Any of you lot struggled fitting plastic guttering fittings
together. Try spaying with silicon lubricatining. Works like a
dream. Don't get it one your hand, no grip.

Also on the guttering front, I have found that my mitre saw does a
great job of doing nice clean square cuts on white squareline
guttering and downpipes. My initial thought was that the friction
between blade and plastic might cause melting but the set of the
blade is enough to ensure this doesn't happen.

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Also use a 9" diamond blade angle grinder, much better than an hacksaw.

Why is the squareline stuff I have on my house so damned hard to get the clips to click into place? Mine started leaking badly at a joint recently. It appeared the long straight section was cut just too short to clip it back together (previous fitter must have got away with it by the skin of his teeth). I therefore added a few inches by cutting the straight piece in the middle & joining the two pieces with a connecting piece. This was all above my head (no ladder stand offs) & one handed - the other was firmly gripped on the ladder which had to be at quite a shallow angle. After a couple of hours & painful fingers I got 3 of the 4 clips in - the last one is round the back & there is no way I can use my fingers to get this to clip in. It drips slightly so I used silicone sealer to fill the gap. Is there a knack to forcing the clips to pull the two pieces together (& compress rubber seal) or do I just have weak fingers?