Help with broken pipe. DIY or plumber?

Linto

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Linto

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Linto

Linto wrote: »

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Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Should be able to do it yourself. You can buy the fittings in any hardware store, just wait until Monday & go to a plumbers merchant, b&q etc are extortionate. Worst case scenario you'll have to cut the pipe back inside the house if there's not enough left to push on a 90° bend.

Linto

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Should be able to do it yourself. You can buy the fittings in any hardware store, just wait until Monday & go to a plumbers merchant, b&q etc are extortionate. Worst case scenario you'll have to cut the pipe back inside the house if there's not enough left to push on a 90° bend.

Thanks for that. So the pipes have to be cut? No way to open these joints? And if cut, how easy is it to reconnect?

Water John

Think those babies are glued, hence the need to cut.
Others here may know better.

FortySeven

Linto wrote: »

Thanks for that. So the pipes have to be cut? No way to open these joints? And if cut, how easy is it to reconnect?

Remove the broken couplings carefully so as not to damage the existing pipes. Get some solvent weld fittings. 2 x 90 degree bends and a length of pipe. Cut pipe to leength and glue together with solvent weld cement. 30 quid tops.

Atlantic Dawn

Your worst problem is the pipe going in to the wall is cracked and so ideally the entire piece going from outside to in would need to be replaced. I take it it's for a washing machine outflow?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Doesn't look like you'll have enough left to just replace the 90°, so you'll probably need to cut inside and add another piece on. Have you got or can you borrow a junior hacksaw?

Water John

Ah Forty Seven knows the business. Always said he shows us lazy feckers up. LOL

Linto

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Your worst problem is the pipe going in to the wall is cracked and so ideally the entire piece going from outside to in would need to be replaced. I take it it's for a washing machine outflow?

It's from bathroom sink.

Linto

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Doesn't look like you'll have enough left to just replace the 90°, so you'll probably need to cut inside and add another piece on. Have you got or can you borrow a junior hacksaw?

Hacksaw I have. I'm wondering when I cut inside, how do I then connect a new pipe? (That might be where it's above my DIY abilities I fear...)

FortySeven

Linto wrote: »

Hacksaw I have. I'm wondering when I cut inside, how do I then connect a new pipe? (That might be where it's above my DIY abilities I fear...)

Have a look behind the basin. It should just be a screw on fitting with a rubber compression seal inside. Unscrew, prepare for a bit of water, then pull out old pipe from outside. Insert new pipe from outside and transfer seal onto it, screw back together.

This is assuming it comes straight out. More pics needed really.

BunkMoreland

Linto wrote: »

Hacksaw I have. I'm wondering when I cut inside, how do I then connect a new pipe? (That might be where it's above my DIY abilities I fear...)

Straight coupling piece, simples.

Linto

FortySeven wrote: »

Have a look behind the basin. It should just be a screw on fitting with a rubber compression seal inside. Unscrew, prepare for a bit of water, then pull out old pipe from outside. Insert new pipe from outside and transfer seal onto it, screw back together.

This is assuming it comes straight out. More pics needed really.

See inside pic

FortySeven

No pic?

Linto

FortySeven wrote: »

No pic?

Sorry, here

FortySeven

Sorry, forgot to reply. Looking at your pic it looks like that pipe could be a bollox to pull through. You need to undo the collar, prepare for a bit of water and just see if it is willing to move. It looks like it is well sealed in there and may be a sod to get out without breaking it. There is very little to grab on the outside and it will be easy to snap it leaving nothing to get hold of.

If you get the pipe moving then simply pull it through the wall from outside and slide a new piece in trimmed to required length and then reconnect using the fittings you have. The outside then refer to my previous post.

If it doesn't want to move you might want to consider getting in some help. The last thing you need is to be digging out a broken pipe you can't get at from either end.

BunkMoreland

It looks like it could be glued back together on the outside.