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BazaJT

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Emergency repair
« on: 15 March 2015, 12:35:12 »
Just washed the pots,ran tap for hot water and then filled bowl all fine.Did pots and emptied bowl and water gushed out of cupboards below sink!Turns out the screw that goes through centre hole in the plug hole and into centre of plastic pipe below sink has rotted through so waste pipe dropped and water emptied into cupboards instead of down waste pipe.Marvellous!!So as an emergency bodge I've held it all together by putting 3 tie wraps through plug hole and round cross pieces on plastic waste pipe.Great invention those tie wraps!!!
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #1 on: 15 March 2015, 12:54:36 »
Reputedly 50 shades of grey will give you ideas for other uses! :D
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #2 on: 15 March 2015, 12:57:56 »
I shall bow to your greater knowledge on that one!
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #3 on: 15 March 2015, 13:40:49 »
Same thing happened with my bath last year, water running down walls and patio doors. Stuck plug back in and bailed it out with a saucepan. Dried out ok but it did take a while, ceiling due a repaint soon anyway.
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #4 on: 15 March 2015, 13:54:54 »
Quote from: BazaJT on 15 March 2015, 12:35:12
Just washed the pots,ran tap for hot water and then filled bowl all fine.Did pots and emptied bowl and water gushed out of cupboards below sink!Turns out the screw that goes through centre hole in the plug hole and into centre of plastic pipe below sink has rotted through so waste pipe dropped and water emptied into cupboards instead of down waste pipe.Marvellous!!So as an emergency bodge I've held it all together by putting 3 tie wraps through plug hole and round cross pieces on plastic waste pipe.Great invention those tie wraps!!!
Should be good for 10 years then.
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #5 on: 15 March 2015, 17:19:45 »
Hoping so,but I've got loads'n'loads more tie wraps!!!!
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #6 on: 15 March 2015, 20:26:21 »
Get yourself some good quality duct tape and some lockwire for a full emergency toolkit ;D
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Re: Emergency repair
« Reply #7 on: 15 March 2015, 22:24:05 »
Gaffa tape and cable ties are like the force, they hold the universe together. Along with twigs and bailing twine, and wattle and daub.  :y
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