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If I was coming to fix this, I’d chop slightly more out the wall top and bottom and put a length of pipe in and a couple connectors not the 17 it’s got in the picture!
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Yeah I got through to my preferred heating engineer who's going to fix it for me and he's already said he will probably need a bigger hole. Going to take a bit of making good this one :/
He also said not great that they've just whacked plastic pipes in the render like that, which is what I thought. Going to pick his brain about the best way forward when he comes round.
Three of those connectors are the pipe repair thing. Even if I'd fitted it perfectly, which I haven't, I wouldn't be happy with leaving that many connectors in the wall.
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Had my first proper DIY disaster yesterday and managed to drill through a water pipe in our living room wall. Other half managed to hold off most of the water until I turned the stopcock off, but that didn't completely stop the water as it turns out that it seems to be part of our heating system.
I've managed to stop it leaking with this push fit pipe repair kit but if I try and refill the heating system (which has lost all pressure) it starts leaking again.
I'm trying to get a plumber/heating engineer to come and take a look but it's a plastic pipe, in a wall, not that deep and no foil around it, plus there's a connector at the bottom of the section I've chopped out, which all seems a bit shonky to me. And the house is presumably full of these so I need to find out where they are.
Best idea I've come up with so far is hiring a thermographic camera and turning the heating up to find the pipes in the wall that way...