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amazing. so just as good as any glued joint and maybe even a tad better because you can't screw up the prep and the gluing. What I'll do is buy the cheaper of the two. :)

Thanks for this. I did use one of these about twenty years ago, I remember. I'm not a plumber (obviously) and I've always felt I was sort of 'cheating' - using something not really right for the job like diy guys often do. But that one worked fine though it was very low pressure water in...

You've got it right. You're talking about exactly what's worrying me. I see the sense in what you're proposing. At the end there where I have to apply a lot of force I'm going to need to brace the back end, A,B, L,M, because on the job they're out there hanging in space... if I apply force...

Thanks for those explanations, guys. I guess I've got the idea now. In practical terms doing the job I guess dry fitting will sort out all length problems. Just leaving the gluing and a couple of vids I've seen seem to suggest that can be a bit of a hassle. One guy there applying glue to i...

sorry, bud, but I can't quite understand. you're talking about using the four elbows AND the 'slide repair coupling' ?

Hi.. thanks for that. It is good enough to go on but perhaps I can just ask you a couple more that're bugging me? If I did the four elbows I'd need to get the size for the added long piece just right I guess. How to do that when it seems the pipe slides further in when it has glue on it...

I have a one inch pvc pipe with a crack spurting water. I'll have to cut it out and insert a piece. But I see the joiners don't slide. They have a ring inside. And more, i see the pipe going into them doesn't even reach the ring. So that means i suppose they are intended to be 'hammered...

that's good news I think? means the rusted pipe will be outside the slab somewhere. perhaps if I dig between the outdoor tap very close to the slab and the slab. it maybe runs just under the dirt and alongside the slab? I'll have a go after we see what happens this evening. I don't live...

We have yellow water, started yesterday. House is on a concrete slab. Brick veneer place. We find the outdoor tap nearest the house and nearest the mains meter is clean water. But about 12 feet in from that corner of the slab where that tap is to be found is the toilet and the water there is...

We have yellow water, started yesterday. House is on a concrete slab. Brick veneer place. We find the outdoor tap nearest the house and nearest the mains meter is clean water. But about 12 feet in from that corner of the slab where that tap is to be found is the toilet and the water there is...

We just moved into a new place and find the shower water adjustment is very, very poor. It is 'hair trigger' just the tiniest bit more cold water and suddenly it's totally cold. Just the tiniest big less and suddenly it is scalding hot. Adjusting the hot water doesn't seem to make any...

That's a good idea about blocking off that hole. I'll do something like that. I didn't realise this was primarily a plumbing forum - i found it googling for electricians, with my multimeter problem. So now I've got a plumbing problem, surprise, surprise.... I'll start a new thread would...

Yep, guys thanks for the input. I well understand the warning about checking the meter before use and the reminder is very good to have - my old radio shack analog meter had such puny wiring inside the leads that they just broke during the course of normal use and led me to detect no voltage...

Actually it turns out I've been too hasty once again... under the cardboard backplate of the blister pack was a kinda long bubble going across the bottom, something like you get on blister packs of screws, so's the vendors can stand 'em up on display I guess. But this wasn't for standing up...

Okay, got it. I use the bottom two holes. The bottom one is negative and the middle one is positive, to use my old analog meter terminology. The 'COM' marking threw me. I didn't think of 'common' as an answer. And I still don't really understand it, but okay, earth, neg, like that. DON'T...

I just got a digital multimeter, the first one I've ever owned or touched, for only $10, new! Great stuff. But it came without leads. And when I look at it I see not two holes marked + and - as with my old analog meter, but three, with strange markings. So I don't know what to put in...