Can an old leaking Yorkshire fitting always be fixed without removing?

anotherbaldrick

diable wrote: »

Just use the putty that turns to metal (can't remember the name the stuff to seal leaking rads) on the joint that'll do for a few years.

Friend of our used about 10 tubes of that stuff when he installed his central heating . And he had once undergone a plumbing apprenticeship.

plumb1_2

diable wrote: »

Just use the putty that turns to metal (can't remember the name the stuff to seal leaking rads) on the joint that'll do for a few years.

The putty will only last a certain amount of time, due to the pipes expanding and contracting. They need cutting out and replacing, use lead solder rather than lead free.

Ianwzzz

Definitely needs to be removed and replaced. If it is leaking then the solder probably didn't flow all around the fitting in the first place, so will not flow around now without being cleaned and fluxed. Putty is only a temporary fix that will not last.

27col

justjohn wrote: »

That was my very last resort if I could not find the leak...not keen on that stuff.

I cured a small leak with that stuff when I built my house in 1977. It has never leaked since.