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Can an old leaking Yorkshire fitting always be fixed without removing?
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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.You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe (Henry IV part 2)0 -
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.A thankyou is payment enough .0 -
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.0
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