Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a
20mm blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh well, new T coupling plus an inline for the shortened pipe. Luckily
in stock at nearest merchant and remembered to buy 5 nylon inserts.

Wheeling the barrow away after buttoning up the job, noticed an insert
rolling around in the barrow! I know I only bought 5!

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert
leaking into a soak unnoticed?
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Tim Lamb

On Thursday 25 July 2013 19:48 Tim Lamb wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a
20mm blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh well, new T coupling plus an inline for the shortened pipe. Luckily
in stock at nearest merchant and remembered to buy 5 nylon inserts.

Wheeling the barrow away after buttoning up the job, noticed an insert
rolling around in the barrow! I know I only bought 5!

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert
leaking into a soak unnoticed?

Probably not much at least in the short term. But...

How hard would it be to expose the joint as the soil is presumably all nice
and loose?

I think I would...

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:48:41 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a
20mm blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh dear.

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert
leaking into a soak unnoticed?

Guess it depends on whether or not its metered...

Maybe, whilst you have some relatively loose ground around, you should
dig it out again and sort it properly - do you have any baler twine? g

David

How does he know which is missing it though?
Brian

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:48:41 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a
20mm blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh dear.

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert
leaking into a soak unnoticed?

Guess it depends on whether or not its metered...

Maybe, whilst you have some relatively loose ground around, you should
dig it out again and sort it properly - do you have any baler twine? g

David

On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:03:20 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

How does he know which is missing it though?

That's easy just decide which one you would have opened last and open
that one first.

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In message , Brian Gaff
writes
How does he know which is missing it though?

Ah! I think it must be the last one as I had to measure and cut to
length. At that stage I had fitted all the components except the
sleeve....

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In message , Tim Watts
writes
On Thursday 25 July 2013 19:48 Tim Lamb wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a
20mm blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh well, new T coupling plus an inline for the shortened pipe. Luckily
in stock at nearest merchant and remembered to buy 5 nylon inserts.

Wheeling the barrow away after buttoning up the job, noticed an insert
rolling around in the barrow! I know I only bought 5!

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert
leaking into a soak unnoticed?

Probably not much at least in the short term. But...

How hard would it be to expose the joint as the soil is presumably all nice
and loose?

I think I would...

Oh all right then. And as David asks, it is a metered supply.

--
Tim Lamb

On 25/07/2013 22:53, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Brian Gaff
writes
How does he know which is missing it though?

Ah! I think it must be the last one as I had to measure and cut to
length. At that stage I had fitted all the components except the sleeve....

So it is not just apprentices who cock it up then? Now me I never make
mistakes, especially now I am old! ;-)

"Tim Lamb" wrote in message
...

Plugged soak so spent the afternoon digging out a fresh one. Found a 20mm
blue poly water pipe about 10 seconds after the digger bucket:-(

Oh well, new T coupling plus an inline for the shortened pipe. Luckily in
stock at nearest merchant and remembered to buy 5 nylon inserts.

Wheeling the barrow away after buttoning up the job, noticed an insert
rolling around in the barrow! I know I only bought 5!

So what is the likelihood of a 20mm blue poly joint with no insert leaking
into a soak unnoticed?


It'll hold in the short term, but as the water hammer effect works on it
over the days and weeks it's likely to work loose. As others have said, dig
it up again and make sure that they all have inserts.

Now it's perfectly possible that the merchant threw six into the bag by
mistake . . . . . . .

AWEM

In message , Chris Hogg
writes
said the King, and a thousand camels strained their arses in the
morning sun...

There's lots more, and many versions. Here's one:

Thanks for that:-)

The job is done and yes, it was the last coupling.

http://ingeb.org/Lieder/thenight.html


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