Badly dented central heating pipe - epoxy putty?

[rivergo1d]

Have just lifted a floorboard to find a very badly dented central heating pipe. It is intact, not green, not leaking, but has quite a deep, pointed crater about 7mm wide, a few mm deep, into one side of it. Copper looks a bit stretched and thin in places though of course I can't really tell.

So - no problems yet - but am just about to lay engineered wood flooring over it. It is on the first floor. The pipe is very tightly fitted and not very accessible, twisting through a tight section of joistwork where several meet.

Not 100% happy to just leave it alone long term given the permanent flooring going down, but my thought was that as it is not leaking at all, could I just reinforce it using epoxy putty? I only have access to one side of the pipe, I presume the putty does not need to go all the way round. The side with access has good access so I could get quite a thick section on it. Is it robust for central heating pipes, and would there be any danger of it further weakening the bit of copper it bonds to?

 

[Terry7556]

river the only acceptable repair is to cut out the damaged section and replace with a short length of pipe , if only for peace of mind.
any chance of a photo to make a more informed choice although i am unlikely to change from the above opinion even though for you it makes considerably more work

 

[rivergo1d]

Thanks for the reply, images are here:

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[HERTS P&D]

That needs to be cut out and replaced.

Andy

 

[Terry7556]

+ 1

 

[rivergo1d]

Thanks guys, guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and do a proper job! Annoying because looking at the positioning (side on) I'm strongly suspecting it was installed like that ...

 

[Charnwood]

I wonder what caused that.
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