draining heating to repair pipe with naill in
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So you'd open the bleed keys to fully drain down the radiators on the floor above as well as the pipework. Need to use solder really as pipe won't be assessable later on. Do they sell slip sockets at plumbers merchants?
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Why not use a compresion joint?
I would close off all the rads and bung the tank if open vent. Cut pipe, drain excess water, lather on the flux and get busy with the mapp gas. Don't burn the house down.
It was very hard to reply to this without being facetious. But one of my customers drained his system into buckets so he could reuse the water as it contained 10 quids worth of corrosion inhibitor that he put in fifteen years ago. Takes all sorts.
I would close off all the rads and bung the tank if open vent. Cut pipe, drain excess water, lather on the flux and get busy with the mapp gas. Don't burn the house down.
It was very hard to reply to this without being facetious. But one of my customers drained his system into buckets so he could reuse the water as it contained 10 quids worth of corrosion inhibitor that he put in fifteen years ago. Takes all sorts.
Oh ffs. No. If you want a slip socket then you are best off trying a sweet shop. You can't expect a plumbers' merchant to carry wierd stuff like that.
Eh. Plumb centre stock them hooting. Although not used very often, when you need them they are quite handy.
Won't get away with leaving the rads full would it just carry on dripping?
Where there's a will there's a way! It is possible to solder with a bit of water still in pipe but depends on pipe size etc.
but you may as well just fully drain. Is this in your house?
Unless you can ensure that you'll get the damaged pipe dry (and depending on your experience with soldering) you'll have grief getting the solder to flow right round... Better to use a compression in this instance - don't fret - there are 000's of 'em under floors throughout the world 
Ah! Didn't realise it was in a wall, thought it was a floor at very low level!
Crack on with sweating a coupling in there then - just use a bit of pipe and two couplings.
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