Need some 'retro' plumbing parts

[Stuart]

I have a 23mm overflow pipe coming from the boiler in the middle of the house to the outside wall. It exits by about 300mm and I need to fit a 90deg bend on it to basically bring I down the wall as flush as possible.

Finding 23mm fitting seems nearly impossible, the closest ice see is the straight reducer here http://www.bes.co.uk/products/129.asp#11942 but I haven't the space to fit a reducer and then the bend :(

Any good suppliers or any 23mm bends hiding in a tool box or garage?

[brainsnova]

Can you not just replace the whole pipe with 21mm but I do have some loose fitting bends so ill check if any are 23mm

[Stuart]

Can't replace the pipe as it runs through the house to the boiler.

[Pistol Pete]

Blimey...i thought all fittings were for 15mm or 22mm lol

No way of getting compression fittings to fit?

[Stuart]

It's very 'old' circa late 80's pipe. Wouldn't like to use compression on there as it'll stick out from the wall too far

[turbojolt]

They must still sell old imperial fittings

[paul080803]

If I see my neighbour I will ask him as he a plumbers merchant

Am I correct in thinking you want a plastic 90degree pipe to solvent weld onto a 23mm od pipe?

[mowgli]

STU, 80'S STUFF WAS 22MM...YOU HAVE TO GO BACK WAY FURTHER THAN THAT TO GET IMPERIAL...

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[Stuart]

Looking into it a bit more and it appears we need to have copper pipe fro. The boiler to the outlet, so that's a fun job lined up to make the boiler more legal again, sodding cowboy installer :(

[turbojolt]

The outlet being the flue?

[Stuart]

No, it's the pressure relief valve pipe.... Should be copper all the way, but it's only copper for 1.5m until it goes into the floor and it's plastic thereafter. Yeeeehaw :(

Going to look at how to make it a copper run all the way now

[Andy]

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[turbojolt]

If its been commissioned I wouldn't worried about it mate

[Stuart]

If its been commissioned I wouldn't worried about it mate
That's the thing, I don't trust the gibbon who installed it given the grief and other fixes I had to do once we moved in, plus if we get a new boiler what's to say they won't commission it because the Prv goes into plastic pipe...

[turbojolt]

Mehhh if the boiler is ripped off for a new one it will be much easier to change the plastic pipe at that point rather then right now

[Stuart]

Mehhh if the boiler is ripped off for a new one it will be much easier to change the plastic pipe at that point rather then right now

Oh no it won't, I'm re routing the the pipe as we are having a conservatory fitted and the pipe would vent inside that lol, so im sorting it to go outside now rather than have to rip out walls and stuff as and when a new boiler goes in

At least some good has come from this, I now know to 100000000% avoid British has for any work lmao :p

[turbojolt]

I don't think that its even that bad tbh might just not be to current standards I will look at my ops guide for you just not today I'm off to the pub lol


Edit Hahaha the overflow pipe terminating in the conservatory isn't the worse I have seen, try building a extension on top of a flat roof were the flue terminated, turning it into a bed room were you KIDS sleep and then refuse to have you boiler capped off till the flue is extended out of the new roof lol

[mowgli]

stu, the relief pipe only needs to be copper for a certain distance from the boiler...

i'm no corgi man, but i know that rule.

[Stuart]

stu, the relief pipe only needs to be copper for a certain distance from the boiler...

i'm no corgi man, but i know that rule.


I'm gonna do it all in copper, just incase..... You know how they love to change the rules every 5 mins.

[mowgli]

not with plumbing.. some of the rules were laid down in the victorian era...

[Stuart]

Lol

For the sake of £20 in bits I still want to re run the pipe with copper just for that warm fuzzy feeling etc.