Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.

Do you want to see something stupid?

KCA_2
KCA_2 Member Posts: 308
in THE MAIN WALL
You have to see this.. I would guess that whoever installed this sell themselves as knowing what they are doing.. I know the guys that did.

I guess that they didn't have a coupling. So duct tape would do!

We found it when we put it on test.





<A HREF="http://www.heatinghelp.com/getListed.cfm?id=341&Step=30">To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"</A>
:-) Ken

Comments

  • Mike T., Swampeast MO
    Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928
    The Fifth Force

    Strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational and duct tape! (Borrowed from the American Science and Surplus catalog.)

    Guess someone took that MUCH to seriously!
  • ed wallace
    ed wallace Member Posts: 1,613
    duct tape

    real men solve leaks with duct tape guess he has been watching to many episodes of the new red green show on pbs
  • jim lockard
    jim lockard Member Posts: 1,059
    May be

    they shold have sprayed a little WD-40 to glue it in place
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Was there a nail hole ?

    I'd put money on the floor guys.....

    Everytime !!!


    Scott

    To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"
  • jbplumber
    jbplumber Member Posts: 89
    The ads that are coming up with this thread....

    among them
    Duct Tape
    doesn't make any claim for Plastic Pipe.
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,479


    Looks like a job for McGiver
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    As Yoda said...

    "The Force" is like duct tape. It has a Light side and a Dark side and it holds the Universe together.
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    *~/:)

    Now thats gotta be a first ! :))
    Last year no the year before ...the vaporbarrier guys taped the wirsbo with some of that red tape :))) :) You just gotta Be There :))
  • cruizer
    cruizer Member Posts: 48
    Well...

    Did it leak?
  • Geno_15
    Geno_15 Member Posts: 158
    the criss-cross pattern

    of the tape applique is extraordinaire, they also used the creases in the middle for balancing the flow, truly a complete custom piping job.

    I agree with the previous post, probably the floor guys or a carpenter, I used to find alot of that with pneumatic control lines.
  • KCA_2
    KCA_2 Member Posts: 308
    DUH!


    Yeah it leaked. A "plumber" put this in. Under an existing floor. Noone else in the structure.

    I don't know what people think sometimes.

    :-) Ken

    To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"
    :-) Ken
  • Uni R
    Uni R Member Posts: 663
    Red Green Code Violation

    Jeez, where is the coat hanger reinforcements? That should have been done and then a second layer of duct tape should have been wrapped around it. Whoever did that needs to watch more TV!
  • Paul Pollets
    Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,663
    I guess

    Bubba was here...nominated to the Darwin List. How embarrasing.

    To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"
  • Nikolai
    Nikolai Member Posts: 31
    What a great idea!

    Up here in Canada didn't you guys know that duct tape is the "Handymans Secret Weapon"? Whats also nice with this type of joining method is you can use a paper clip in the center to restrict flow if needed to create a well balanced system.
    "Keep your stick on the ice"
  • Dave Bush
    Dave Bush Member Posts: 155
    That would be

    Cross linked duct tape...
  • Joe Mattiello
    Joe Mattiello Member Posts: 720
    Another use for duck tape!! Excellent!

    Taco, Inc.
    Joe Mattiello
    Technical Service Technician
    joemat@taco-hvac.com
    401-942-8000 X 484
    www.taco-hvac.com
    Joe Mattiello
    N. E. Regional Manger, Commercial Products
    Taco Comfort Solutions
  • Plumdog
    Plumdog Member Posts: 18


    Once upon a time me and a guy who is now a State Plumbing Inspector fixed an 18" long split in a ductile iron 3" water line (underground) with carefully applied wraps of 100 mph duct tape and three emergency clamps end to end. It held and didn't leak until spring when it could be dug up and replaced in it's entirety. Very proud of that. It don't stick very good to Wirsbo, however.
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    He shoulda used

    oxygen barier tape. THat's hwat happens when you use non barrier tape on barrier tube...

    I found a splice that was JUST like that once on a 1" supply line for a snowmelt system UNDERGROUND. Couldn't get it to hold air. Ran water to it and the water bubbled to the surface. Dug down 18" and found the splice...

    Some peoples kids...

    ME
  • jeff_51
    jeff_51 Member Posts: 545
    THE GUYS AT POSSUM LODGE

    would indeed be proud
  • Ted_9
    Ted_9 Member Posts: 1,718




    "The Force" is like duct tape. It has a Light side and a Dark side and it holds the Universe together.

    I like that saying.

    PATRIOT HEATING & COOLING, INC.

    To Learn More About This Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in "Find A Professional"
  • jwade55_3
    jwade55_3 Member Posts: 166
    If Jeff Foxworthy was a plumber.

    "If you've ever used duct tape as a pex repair coupling.....You might be a redneck!"
  • Jack Ennis Martin
    Jack Ennis Martin Member Posts: 35
    Duct tape

    I know why this chap used duct tape to fix the leak. It is really very simple and straight forward. He was one of those lucky people apprenticed to a journeyman afraid of loosing his job to someone younger: so, he taught him how to use duct tape. I am waiting with unbridled interest to see how he taught the kid to solder, that should be the story to behold.
    Jack Ennis Martin
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    About a year ago I saw a fox show that showed a firefighter fix a gas leak (in the middle of a pipe) with a piece of duct tape and offered up a "phew! That could have been deadly". The things people see and believe!
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Dale Pickard
    Dale Pickard Member Posts: 231
    I hate to be stuck up....

    I don't even know what to think about what this tells me.
    Surely any species capable of this kind of "thinking", is doomed.

    Thanks for sharing.....I guess. :-)

    Dale
  • Dave Bush
    Dave Bush Member Posts: 155
    There goes

    the world, alright.

    Hell in a handbasket, that's our destination!!!!!
  • JohnWood1
    JohnWood1 Member Posts: 63
    Warranty is void?

    I am given to understand that duct tape adhesive will void the warranty on most pex products. Mabye the guy would have not used it had he known....................
  • Mitch_4
    Mitch_4 Member Posts: 955
    set course

    Mr. Sulu...set course for the moron nebula, warp factor 10. Mr. spock set phasers to "stupid"...Scotty...we need more duct tape..and we need it NOW!
This discussion has been closed.

Categories