leak from cold water tank, any advice?

[Penners]

Wiggs - you've gone dotty!

 

[Moo]

I wrapped them with silicone baking parchment

I would recommend using drawing pins to keep the parchment in place.

So - you wrap silicone baking parchment round the pipe and then stick some drawing pins ...... where?

 

[Penners]

Leave some parchment projecting each side of the hole/notch and then fold a flap of it down on to the face of the joist - and insert pin.

Stand back and congratulate oneself.

 

[Flyfisher]

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(me too, wrong thread )

 

[Penners]

Do I get the impression that the Christmas corks have been drawn already? :wink:

 

[Moo]

Leave some parchment projecting each side of the hole/notch and then fold a flap of it down on to the face of the joist - and insert pin.

Sorry, Penners; I thought you were advising pinning the parchment to the pipe.
(And before you draw the obvious conclusion - no, I've been far too busy to get at the booze yet.)

 

[Penners]

Sorry, Penners; I thought you were advising pinning the parchment to the pipe.

I'm afraid my limited imagination hadn't come up with that idea. Perhaps I'll try it and let you know the outcome.

 

[AMc]

Pinning the parchment to the pipe?
Do I look like an idiot?
How would you get the pins through the copper?
You'd have to drill a hole and use a screw!


I found the original thread with my pictures and enjoyed the drift. Looks like I used the staple gun to fix the parchment to the joists.
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7883&hilit=pipe&start=30

 

[Penners]

Pinning the parchment to the pipe?
Do I look like an idiot?
How would you get the pins through the copper?
You'd have to drill a hole and use a screw!

The problem with that is it tends to create what we experts call "a leak". (Stop me if I'm getting too technical for you).

 

[AMc]

The problem with that is it tends to create what we experts call "a leak". (Stop me if I'm getting too technical for you).

No, there's no leak in there; there isn't room for so much as a spring onion with all that water coming out.

 

[Penners]

Eh?

Oh, lea(e)k...spring onion...

I geddit. :roll: