Solvent weld/push fit waste: daft question?

[AdamW]

Now, this might seem like a daft question but with what is at stake I want to make sure!

I bought some 3m solvent weld wastepipes down at Wickes as I was having some big things delivered anyway and thought I would save getting them in the car.

I bought it thinking "white plastic pipe is white plastic pipe". Now I am going to buy fittings for it I want to make sure, can I use push fit and compression fit waste fittings on it, or am I consigned to solvent welding them? I have never done the solvent weld thing so would prefer to stick to purely mechanical solutions.

 

[sterose]

Now, this might seem like a daft question but with what is at stake I want to make sure!

I bought some 3m solvent weld wastepipes down at Wickes as I was having some big things delivered anyway and thought I would save getting them in the car.

I bought it thinking "white plastic pipe is white plastic pipe". Now I am going to buy fittings for it I want to make sure, can I use push fit and compression fit waste fittings on it, or am I consigned to solvent welding them? I have never done the solvent weld thing so would prefer to stick to purely mechanical solutions.

If it's any comfort, this seems to be a common mistake. Anyway, you can use compression, but not pushfit - Compression can accomodate the size diference between pushfit and solvent-weld.

 

[AdamW]

Glad I asked now, I would have felt a darn sight sillier with bathwater gushing out of my newly pushfitted joints, all over the floor!

Thanks Sterose

 

[peter anderson]

sterose if you can't use ordinary white pipes on pushfit fittings then what type of white pipes are you supposed to use?

 

[breezer]

there are two types of "white pipe" dont know what they are , igues one is polypropelene, next time in your diy shed have a look, one "feels" softer than the other

 

[masona]

If I remember rightly, I think one of them have a higher temperature rating.

 

[AdamW]

Just read the labels on the pipes again, they say they are suitable for high temperature waste. Good thing really as they will be taking a washing machine waste, which twice a year during my service washes is going to be pretty toasty.