What a waste. Calling all plumbing types.....

[TwickenhamCyclist]

Well, at least its plastic and not cast iron!
Sure the tapes and mastic will work, a good temp fix, but nothing like doing the job properly
I'd just replace the section with the boss on the main stack and the elbow on the feed with new sections... that fit together properly in the first place £20 if that for the parts and shouldn't take long, even for a novice

 

[slowmotion]

Is it not worth the extra bit of effort to do the job correctly?

The vertical branch pipe goes to a horizontal pipe run of about five feet that takes the bath waste above a chipboard floor. It also takes another branch that serves bathroom basin. That branch is in a tiled plumbing duct. In order to do a "proper" job, I'll have to rip out the chipboard floor in places, and probably attack the duct from above as well. I really can't be bothered with all that, even though it would be a more lasting solution. Something that holds back the waters for a few years without staining the plasterboard ceiling that I'm about to put up would be just fine.

Denso or Sylglas looks extremely attractive, especially if it consolidates in to a single sticky mass of gloop. I'll probably squirt a load of silicone mastic into the joint and Denso over the whole thing when it's cured.

 

[slowmotion]

Thanks for the advice. I'm leaning towards a belt, braces, and binder twine solution. Sanitary silicone, a polyester resin/glass fibre tape bandage, and Denso. At least I'll have done the best I could without demolishing much of the bathroom above. Years ago I fixed a leaking in-coming lead water main with GRP. It worked a treat for many years until Thames Water replaced the mains in our street with blue poly pipe.

 

[classic33]

Where you gonna get the binder twine?

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I would use what I have got in the garage already......in this case car exhaust repair paste. (Gun Gum) It goes on wet, is fibre reinforced and sets into a really tough substance but will tolerate vibration and slight flexing. It would need to be kept dry until set hard - and the process can be accelerated with a hair dryer or similar.
........but I am a renowned bodger!

 

[screenman]

Remind me not to buy a house or bike for that matter off some of you lot.

 

[slowmotion]

Remind me not to buy a house or bike for that matter off some of you lot.

Harsh! If I fixed every piece of criminally shoddy workmanship slyly covered up by the original "professionals", I would never set foot outside the front door.

 

[classic33]

Remind me not to buy a house or bike for that matter off some of you lot.

Why?

 

[screenman]

I do not like bodging.

 

[screenman]

Harsh! If I fixed every piece of criminally shoddy workmanship slyly covered up by the original "professionals", I would never set foot outside the front door.

I found a long time ago that just because a person gets paid for doing a job does not mean they do it well or care.

 

[slowmotion]

I do not like bodging.

It's not bodging...it's "bush engineering", an entirely honourable calling.

 

[slowmotion]

I found a long time ago that just because a person gets paid for doing a job does not mean they do it well or care.

Tell me about it!

 

[subaqua]

Don't use mastic, it will go inside the pipe and collect matter.

Denso tape , will never dry out and doesn't fail. I did a temporary repair 25 yrs ago on my dads bath waste inside the box section where it joins the stack . I never got round to repairing it " properly" and it is still working fine

 

[subaqua]

Harsh! If I fixed every piece of criminally shoddy workmanship slyly covered up by the original "professionals", I would never set foot outside the front door.

Or even worse those with a tiny bit of knowledge. Like the guy who owned ours before us . Finally after 17 years I think I have sorted all the dodgy stuff .

How the wiring never went bang I will never know !

 

[slowmotion]

Don't use mastic, it will go inside the pipe and collect matter.

Denso tape , will never dry out and doesn't fail. I did a temporary repair 25 yrs ago on my dads bath waste inside the box section where it joins the stack . I never got round to repairing it " properly" and it is still working fine

I like the cut of your jib, Sir!