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Jaeger_S2k
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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: Barrier Pipes Makes, anything bad |
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Has anyone anything bad to say about Poly Plumb Polybutylene pipe?
I've heard it more flexable but nothing bad about it is it simply being shadowed by Speedfit and Hep2O?
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Hinton Heating
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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the partnership who designed Hep2o broke up, and the other one made polyplumb to compete.
Hep2o say its old fashioned, and hasn;t improved like they have, but then they would say that!
I've used it without any problem, and the the fact it uncoils straight, and doesn;t coil back up like speedfit is good.
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Jaeger_S2k
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Thanks Hinton
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bathstyle
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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I used to use a lot of Hep, quite a bit of Polyplumb and occasionally used Speedfit. Polyplumb is the same as Hep used to be.
I feel that all plastic is crap and have heard of so many people that have had failures and houses flooded that I only use end feed. |
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Hinton Heating
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using either copper or Unipipe... only done a bit of unipipe, but seems a good system (bit expensive!)
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Jaeger_S2k
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I keep hearing this scaremongering from people about speedfit and hep2o.
OK so I don't make 100 connections a week but this stuff has only ever failed me when I failed it, if it's fitted correctly it doesn't leak.
bathstyle have you had failures and house floodings or just hear it from other people?
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Hinton Heating
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: |
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I seen only one failure, where a speedfit elbow wasn't pushed home onto hep pipe, which only weeped and lost system pressure, rather than bursting off.
I've not had any failures on plastic pipe work i've done.
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bathstyle
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I saw £50k of damage from a speedfit fitting popping off and a couple of flooded houses from mice biting through Hep in a loft.
Apart from that I just don't like the stuff, I see a lot of Plumbers buying it in the merchants and think a lot less of them, I find that for my type of work copper is better and just as quick. |
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bathstyle
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| I'll check out the prices, I've never been one for comparing the prices too much as I don't really use a great deal like yourself |
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