Hi all
I’m hoping someone can give me some ideas how to join a tricky waste pipe up. If you look at the pictures, there is a waste connection that is buried amongst a UFH manifold. The black is just some duct tape closing the end. The perfect result of people not speaking to each other or considering what others are intending.
Anyway, I can’t get to the fitting enough to install anything in. The UFH pipes are just too hard and there is no flex with them going in to the screed. The waste pipes feel cemented as I can’t seem to twist them either. So I need to figure out how I am going to connect up. This is just for a water softner drain. I have 2 thoughts…
1.If I connect a smaller diameter flexible pipe into the hard one and at an angle, I can get around the UFH pipes. I can then run the new thinner pipes more conveniently and connect to the softner. The problem here is that I will have to figure out how to seal up the connection. I could just use tape but that would need replacing regularly as the stick wears down and grime grows in the creases. Also wouldn’t be air tight which may be a problem with a drain smell coming in. Is there something else I could use that would be better? Some type of putty maybe?
2.I cut the pipe before the elbow and connect something else up at a better angle to come between the pipes. The worry I have here is that if I do that and run into any problems, I don’t have any space to fix my mess up. Yes, I know I could employ someone more experienced but I’m really short on cash and I’m sick and tired of employing people who are letting me down or doing quick fixes themselves that won’t last.
Any thoughts, advice or better ideas.
Thanks.
Alan
I’m hoping someone can give me some ideas how to join a tricky waste pipe up. If you look at the pictures, there is a waste connection that is buried amongst a UFH manifold. The black is just some duct tape closing the end. The perfect result of people not speaking to each other or considering what others are intending.
Anyway, I can’t get to the fitting enough to install anything in. The UFH pipes are just too hard and there is no flex with them going in to the screed. The waste pipes feel cemented as I can’t seem to twist them either. So I need to figure out how I am going to connect up. This is just for a water softner drain. I have 2 thoughts…
1.If I connect a smaller diameter flexible pipe into the hard one and at an angle, I can get around the UFH pipes. I can then run the new thinner pipes more conveniently and connect to the softner. The problem here is that I will have to figure out how to seal up the connection. I could just use tape but that would need replacing regularly as the stick wears down and grime grows in the creases. Also wouldn’t be air tight which may be a problem with a drain smell coming in. Is there something else I could use that would be better? Some type of putty maybe?
2.I cut the pipe before the elbow and connect something else up at a better angle to come between the pipes. The worry I have here is that if I do that and run into any problems, I don’t have any space to fix my mess up. Yes, I know I could employ someone more experienced but I’m really short on cash and I’m sick and tired of employing people who are letting me down or doing quick fixes themselves that won’t last.
Any thoughts, advice or better ideas.
Thanks.
Alan
