Snapped pipe thingy on the radiator???

[sirdar20]

As you can see from the title of this topic, I am utterly clueless as to what I'm doing.

There's thin pipes the come out of the bottom of my radiator and go under the floor boards in my flat. One of them have snapped where it meets the radiator. I took the bit out of the radiator to find a tiny piece of the pipe under the bolt. The piece of pipe had a fat bit that sealed the the space around the bolt, thus stopping the water from leaking. When I put the pipe into the bolt without the bit that snapped off, and it leaked all over my floor.

I may have used some bad language at this point.

Am I going to have to try to replace of the whole pipe thing (as in ALL the bits under the floor too) or is there a way of fixing it. I still have all the bits. I have no heating or hot water btw. Everytime I turn the boiler on, it pishes water over my floor

Any Ideas? I'll love you forever if you can fix my radiator! I need my deposit back! ahaha! [

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• sirdar20
• 18 Sep 2010
• 1

 

[tincup]

Hi

Don't turn on your boiler until it is fixed.
Get to B&Q and buy a push fit stop end and put this on the pipe.
Take the pipe piece along to be sure to get right size.

HTH

 

[PRS1]

If there is enough lengh on the snapped pipe to fully insert it back into the valve u can fix it.
1-Clean all paint from the top inch of the pipe,it needs to be perfectly round.
2-Take the snapped off bit to a plumbers merchant and ask for an olive to fit that size of tube,probably 8mm or 10mm.
3-Thread the nut onto pipe, then the olive and push it fully into the valve.
4-Tighten the nut finger tight making sure to hold the pipe into the valve.(making sure its straight).
5-With an adjustable spanner proceed to tighten 3/4 to 1 full turn.
Job done
if it weeps slightly just give it another nip with the ajusties.
olives cost pennies.