Hi

I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water
butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye and I
wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe and slot it inside the
plastic rather than replace everything. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Hodge

BT Newsgroup wrote:
Hi

I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water
butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye
and I wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe and slot it inside
the plastic rather than replace everything. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Hodge

Replace the untrained eye with a trained measuring device!
No guarantee that it will/wont fit without checking
Years ago I purchased a plastic heat shrinkable adaptor to make a ****
proof joint between a new plastic pipe onto an existing CI pipe.

Bob Minchin wrote:
BT Newsgroup wrote:
Hi

I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water
butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye
and I wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe and slot it inside
the plastic rather than replace everything. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Hodge

Replace the untrained eye with a trained measuring device!
No guarantee that it will/wont fit without checking
Years ago I purchased a plastic heat shrinkable adaptor to make a ****
proof joint between a new plastic pipe onto an existing CI pipe.

Before you do though, bear in mind that most diverters get clogged really
easily with leaves and moss. It's probably better to just empty the full
flow from the gutter down pipe into the butt and fit a large bore overflow
from the butt.

Tim

On 04/03/2013 10:52, BT Newsgroup wrote:
Hi

I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water
butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye
and I wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe and slot it inside
the plastic rather than replace everything. Is this possible?

You can do cast to plastic transitions... its usually a case of making
sure you have a "socket" of adequate size to receive the free end of the
other pipe, and then sealing the gap.

Sometimes you need to wind yarn or thin rope around the bottom of the
pipe that is going into the socket to form a "stop" for whatever sealant
you are planning on using, setting that into the socket, and then
filling up the gap (either a flexible mastic, or in the case of a cast
iron socket, often a mortar mix).


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John.

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BT Newsgroup wrote:
I would like to replace a cast gutter downpipe with plastic to fit water
butt and diverter, the cast looks slightly smaller to my untrained eye
and I wondered if I could just cut the cast downpipe and slot it inside
the plastic rather than replace everything. Is this possible?

A decent BM will have an adaptor to couple one to the other.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:16:50 +0000, Tim+ wrote:

Before you do though, bear in mind that most diverters get clogged
really easily with leaves and moss.

But if you know that and don't glue bits together it's easy to clear out.

It's probably better to just empty the full flow from the gutter down
pipe into the butt and fit a large bore overflow from the butt.

Then all the crud from the down spout ends up in the butt blocking it's
oulet and filling it with loads of evil, black, anerobic, rotting muck...

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Cheers
Dave.

"Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:16:50 +0000, Tim+ wrote:

Before you do though, bear in mind that most diverters get clogged
really easily with leaves and moss.

But if you know that and don't glue bits together it's easy to clear out.

It's probably better to just empty the full flow from the gutter down
pipe into the butt and fit a large bore overflow from the butt.

Then all the crud from the down spout ends up in the butt blocking it's
oulet and filling it with loads of evil, black, anerobic, rotting muck...


Then run the overflow from the bottom of the barrel so that it's getting
flushed through? Just a thought.

Tim

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:14:35 +0000, Tim+ wrote:

It's probably better to just empty the full flow from the gutter down
pipe into the butt and fit a large bore overflow from the butt.

Then all the crud from the down spout ends up in the butt blocking
it's oulet and filling it with loads of evil, black, anerobic, rotting
muck...

Then run the overflow from the bottom of the barrel so that it's
getting flushed through? Just a thought.

Don't think there would be enough flow through such an overflow to,lift
the crud the full height of the water depth to flush it through.

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Cheers
Dave.