**The wtf plumbing thread**

I can't get a good picture of this so a description will have to do.

Under our bath I found a strange pipe that did nothing, might have been for a wash basin at some stage any way the end that wasn't connected terminated in a 1/2'compression fitting with a piece of wood hammered in the end to block the flow. The compression fitting was attached to about 6 inches of copper pipe which was sweated on to 1/2' alkathene, about 3 foot down from the end was what I can only guess was a "repair " consisting of another 6 inches of copper with a compression fitting in the middle and jubilee clips on the alkathene pipe, back at the mains end the alkathene was again sweated over the copper. Somewhere in that lot there is also a genuine Philmatic alkathene connection but as its under the back of the bath I can't get to it to see exactly. All that in about 7ft of pipe?

Interesting point here is that the cottage had a water supply off the mains with a pressure of up to 160psi until a pressure reducing valve was put in - we are at the bottom of hill and the mains has to go up to houses a few hundred feet above us.