Thread: These Fittings For This Drinking Water Pipe?

I use the blue-stripe poly pipe for all my plumbing around the house. It’s all clamp fittings like a big version of your garden hose. Super easy

yep, well that's what I was thinking/hoping but I can't find them. where are they? compression fittings I think they call them, right?
garden hose is no good because it blows out under pressure and the fitting nearly always leak anyway.
But this stuff should solve all that.
But I seem to have lost the actual fittings page...

Is it just me?

Why do we have disclaimers on the Electrical threads but nothing here on plumbing? Which is just as illegal DIY as any cabling.

I'm not actually against DIY, I think far too much has been regulated in OZ, but some of the questions here just make me want to scream "GET A PLUMBER!"

Any suggestions you are getting here are mostly from other DIYs that are not legal solutions. Trusting ad hoc answers from the internet is mostly going to be a lottery, although there are actually quite a few good plumbing videos on youtube showing how to put some of this stuff together properly. For some reason they seem to originate mostly in the UK.

Australian publishers have put our several quality DIY home maintenance manuals over the years that covered a lot of ground needed to understand and to (illegally) DIY some of this stuff in PRINTED TEXT that is worth studying to get value out of what you can go and buy in the Big Green Shed.

I suggest you locate something like Collins Complete DIY Manual by Albert Jackson & David Day - 9780007425952 which might help you understand how things should fit together.

Let me point out again that if you are doing any work that connects to the your sewer or drinking water systems, then you must be a qualified plumber.

https://bestplumbers.com.au/plumbing...ide-australia/

AFAIK if you don’t connect permanently to mains water, it’s not illegal? Ie connect to existing tap. None of my additions are hard connected


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[QUOTE=abrogard;2270587]I'm planning to run a bit of 20mm pvc to a shed sink and it looks like the fittings to use are these things that I think you glue together.

That's all Bunnings seems to show. I've never done any of that kind of work.

this is it - this pipe with these fittings?

Compression Irrigation - Bunnings Australia

Originally Posted by Fuzzie

Is it just me?

Why do we have disclaimers on the Electrical threads but nothing here on plumbing? Which is just as illegal DIY as any cabling.

I'm not actually against DIY, I think far too much has been regulated in OZ, but some of the questions here just make me want to scream "GET A PLUMBER!"

IMO, getting a plumber in to change a tap washer is just plain silly -- the only specialist knowledge you need is knowing where the tap to turn the water off at the mains is. DAMHIKT


But I fully agree. When it comes to gas appliances, ENGAGE A LICENCED GAS FITTER.
Gas can go BOOM and kill you as readily as 240V stuff

Originally Posted by ian

IMO, getting a plumber in to change a tap washer is just plain silly -- the only specialist knowledge you need is knowing where the tap to turn the water off at the mains is. DAMHIKT


But I fully agree. When it comes to gas appliances, ENGAGE A LICENCED GAS FITTER.
Gas can go BOOM and kill you as readily as 240V stuff

my 2 cents water can go boom and touch the electricity ��

a handy person can change a tap washer but a plumber can work out why the tap washer needs to be changed and maximise the amount of times between tap washers needing to be changed. A plumber also knows the correct size shifting spanner to hit stuff with - a handyman is only guessing ��
another example a handy person can change a tyre but a mechanic will look at the brakes whilst the wheel is off.

so that is only my opinion - like others on here I will offer advice, when I see incorrect advice I will offer my opinion.