Re: Smile of the day - What is yours?
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Originally Posted by maviczap
Yep, it's lovely here, but I'm stuck doing DIY
However, I have made good progress with all the jobs on my list.
My gripe, is isolation valves are meant to isolate the supply aren't they?
Well the push fit ones I used didn't completely stop the flow, so I had to fit a short length of pipe with a push fit end stop. I was anyway, but the valves weren't doing the job they were supposed to?
The other one on the toilet cistern works fine!!
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Gate valves are no good at isolating anything much, the seat and plunger get caked with limescale and various crap and you have to turn them on and off a few times to fully stop flow ( if you are lucky ) - give me a decent ball valve any day...they can get a bit tight to turn after a while but I never had one that didn't isolate.
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