THE BEST DRAIN OFF FOR YOUR SYSTEM

This is the best drain off for your system...The premium is insane. Available in a trade supplier near you!

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[plumberparts]

THESE ARE GREAT and helped massively last week on a back fill I had to do!

[wobby]

Your right, I’m retired from the plumbing business for over 20year but never used the old type drain offs they leaked everywhere. Rather I’d drop a rad and drain from one of the rad valves. Those drain cocks look so much better, so long as when turning off it’s not over tighten, as that will knackered the jumper.

[ChrisCowley]

Like the idea of the improved guts in those things as it looks like they mitigate overtightening (probably the biggest cause of leaks with the traditional drain cocks - people go mental with them). Not too sure about the hoselock fitting. I've never really had an issue with attaching a hose to them (apart from those piddly little ones you often get on microbore.... they're the devil's spawn). Nice that they do a version without the hoselock fitting. I'm gonna give them a try.

[slyfox]

Very nice, hozelock is only okay if you have enough clearance to get it on. Thanks.

[coppullcaveman]

Being someone that uses o rings in oxygen and hi temp environments, the thicker material seals last longer. It also makes a huge difference to the shore hardness and type of material the rubber is made from. Viton can deal with it much better than nitrile but its cheaper to use than Viton.

[patrickflanagan]

Clever design and engineering. Thanks for the info.

[professorplumb]

I hope they fixed all the problems they had from the last launch as so many of the ones i installed leaked badly and cost me alot of time and money, i’ll hang back and see if this time they got it right 😅

[alexscheele]

Looks mint. Be great if they made a lock shield valve with one of these integrated.

[mrthomas]

I've in my house run in a little extra length of pipework off the heating system that goes outside and into a gully. On the pipe is a 15mm butterfly valve that you just open and the heating system is drained off. 👍

[Timmym]

I've got a puzzle for you mate.

Huge house, 4 floors, stored water in the basement. Circulation pump in the basement on the return runs off a clock.


Clock runs the circulation pump 6-8am, 10am-12pm, 4pm-7pm, if you want a shower outside of that good luck lol.

I had a brain fart, thought a solution would be to get a flow switch fitted after the cylinder so when a tap is turned on signal can be sent to turn pump on. Talked the plumber into it and he fitted a worcester bosch flow switch, nice.

Fitted a 2 pole contactor, N/c side for the existing clock so it operates as normal, N/O side for the flow switch.

Works great, turn the tap on, flow switch energizes the contactor, turns the pump on, but fuck me, the pumps running now mate so the flow switch is always going to send the signal to the contactor to run the pump, it's never going to stop and the boiler is going to run 24hrs a day, bit expensive like.

There's a solution to this that the semi retired 70 something year old plumber or me is not coming up with, and you got smarts and listen to Aphex Twin so I reckon you'd know what it is. Help please!

[stephennobes]

Just goes to show a few simple changes can make a world of difference for Plumbing guys.

[mistermikeanson]

Could have done with one of those today. Ended up cobbling something together - as usual!! Well, it worked so happy days!

[chazbalsdon]

Does the new inners fit the old drain offs currently installed? Game changer if so

[steveurquhart]

you stick the end of the hose in ya hot cuppa tea and as if by magic it slips on LOL😉

[dickiedubs]

The worst are on hot water cylinders, i rarely get ond that works and i nearly always end up taking the hot water outlet off and using a Syphon technique

[Allegedlyright]

If you hammer the end of the pipe with anything it softens up and flies on old welders trick try it you can feel the warmth.

[BP-tdgv]

That will fit nicely into a speed Fit T junction...

[sween]

Top tip time, hold your part in place with your tape measure

[Ivan.Atanasov.]

Try nexgen drain valves. The core is actually hdpe. Will never ever stick to the casing.
We never looked back since using them

[davideyres]

I wish someone would produce an outside tap with the end being a hoze lock that’s cast in and not removable. Some git nicked my hoze lock connector from my outside tap which is on the side of the house accessible from the front.