One for the builders.

[Steve Maskery]

OK, dumb question time.

If the existing pipe is buried and you cut out a section. How do you get your Tee-piece in? I would have thought that you need to be able to separate the two old halves, insert the T, then close the two halve together again. How can you do that if the pipes are buried solid?

Clearly it is possible, as this must be done every day, but I'm a bit ignorant of these things and would like to be heducated.

S

 

[9fingers]

Steve, You use a slip joint or repair joint. It is like a straight coupler but has no centralising web. You put this on one bit of pipe all the way, and then slide it back over the new fitting to cover the butt joint.

hth

Bob

 

[Steve Maskery]

Ah! Got it.
TVM
S

 

[Digit]

Whilst purchasing some timber this morning I obtained a length of thin, braided steel wire and will attempt cut the pipe using it.
This particular pipe is only about 100 mill below ground level, and from experience I know that the problem of conventional methods is a matter of back ache!
If there was a trench that I would be standing in the a saw/grinder etc would be quick and easy, but as I wish to expose the minimum of pipe I would be on hands and knees trying not to fall down the hole!
Hopefully a wirre will prevent this as I should need less space to slide the wire around the pipe then I can straddle it whilst cutting. For those of us with bad backs this will hopefully be the best method.
I appreciate that the cutting will take longer than a disc cutter for example but the digging should be quicker.
When I cut the pipe I'll post about it, any problems and how long it takes me.
Many thanks to all.

Roy.