Plastic pipe repair question

[Rad Seitis]

Hello,

I have a vertical dark grey plastic pipe coming up from the water mains, about 1 metre up there is a T piece which sends a branch out about 50mm into an adaptor which goes from the plastic pipe to a copper thread (eventually into a toilet cistern via some speedfit gubbins)

This adapter (glued onto the plastic pipe) has a tiny leak in it where it hasn’t been properly bonded onto the pipe, it sends a drip out every 10 secs or so.

I don’t want to have to hack this off and replace it as it’s a tight spot and I haven’t really got much pipe to play with, so was hoping to repair it.

Now the ideal thing would be like a cuff of say 3 mill thick, 2 semi-circles, which I could lather in solvent and weld it onto the back end of the adapter – wishful thinking on my part probably – so, failing this, is there any other option open to me save:

1) hacking it off and start again.

2) squirt a tennis ball sized lump of sealant onto it and hope it holds until I move out of the house?

Many thanks,

Rad

* Edit - its probably PVC or maybe ABS and not PE

 

[oilman]

To save yourself lots of grief and hard work, hack it off and start again, or better still, redo the pipework from further along the pipe.[/quote]

 

[kevplumb]

could you not replace it with hep?