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Heating systems are all lined up in one scheme - boiler - feed pipes - appliances - reverse feed pipes - boiler. It is stolen. The pressure and circulation of the coolant in central heating systems are maintained using pumps. In the private sector homes with an autonomous open heating system, pressure and circulation gives a boiler when heated. In the cottages, the heating system is autonomous closed, the coolant is always under pressure.
In heating systems, pressure control, occurs on the instruments, but small leaks still fix hard, the automation levels a slight drop in pressure. In private houses, pressure gauges do not put. Therefore, in both cases, residents have only one method of controlling hermeticism - visual.
Inspecting the heating devices and suitable pipes, pay attention to the sent places. In places of obvious leaks, water will drop or flows ,. But those who hid metal risers in the box that one of them happens, most likely learn from the neighbors to which water flowed
Causes and locations of the appearance of currents
The reasons for the appearance of the leaks are only two. The first is mechanical damage. Here everything is clear, but the second reason is corrosion. The reason for the occurrence of corrosion in heating is bad water treatment. In central heating, water treatment equipment purifies water from mechanical impurities and salts. In private houses and cottages there is no one.
The presence of salts and electricity and leads to the enhanced formation of rust.
Most rust are the places of threaded compounds, welded seams, taps made by heating. Often, the fistula appears on direct sections without welds and threads. It is possible that the pipe defects are defects or a pipe that is not intended for heating.
When it is better to repair heating pipes
During the inspection, they saw, flowing a pipe of heating what to do. When some confusion passes, the answer will become obvious - immediately eliminate the flows. But, how and when to start a solid repair? Of course in the summer. When heat and you can safely stop the heating and drain the water.
But with the elimination of leaks should not be dragged. If there is a lot of damage to the damage. It is necessary to temporarily close damage and after the completion of the heating season is completed.
In modern systems that are designing and installed in homes, it is possible to complete one or several branches, without stopping the boiler or riser. In this case, you can repair, without waiting for the end of the heating season.
Repair methods
There are several types of repair of heating without draining water, but with a discharge of pressure in the system, but all of them only a temporary solution:
- welding repair using steel and polymer pipe soldering
- mechanical repair using different appliances of clamps, bandages, etc.
- chemical method using various chemical compositions (adhesives, sealants, cold welding, epoxy-based mixtures, etc.).
If circumstances force you with your own hands to eliminate a malfunction, then manifesting some smelting and skill can be used in other ways. Using sweater products - wire, rubber, self-tapping screws, wooden chops, etc.
On a working system
The working heating system is always under pressure, even in open systems of small houses, where extenders are used. Therefore, it is necessary to understand what to close the flow. And one method is suitable here - the use of a clamp and rubber or bandage.
The sequence is as follows. Finding the place of damage, measure the diameter of the pipe. Clamp make or buy on this size. It is necessary to consider that the clamp close not only damage, but also a few centimeters of the pipe in different directions. Under the clamp necessarily put rubber.
If the plot of damage is small, and the diameter of the pipe is more than 50 mm better to use the factory bandage. It sits tightly than the clamp.
On low-pressure heating systems, you can use rubber harness and wire. The harness, the maximum stretching it, wrap, and fix the wire.
On a stopped system
On the disconnected heating work easier. Pumps are turned off or overlap. It is necessary to reset the pressure. Find a place of leaks and, depending on access to the damaged area, select the most appropriate repair method.
Required tools and materials
Depending on what method will be repaired, a set of tools and materials will be changed.
Let's try to unify:
- Set of welding equipment and electrodes. Welding repair.
- Washing keys are calcined or horn in size from 8 to 24 mm. When installing bandages and clamps.
- Latex gloves.
- Pliers and knife.
- Steel annealed wire 1.5-2.2 mm.
Stores
In specialized stores or departments for repairing heating and other pipes there are many interesting things. Bandages and clamps, various composition and time drying glue, dry plumbing mixtures on a cement and polymer basis. There are on sale and just a wonderful thing - Plumbing Scotch. Sticks to any pure surface, so so do not tear off. There are foil and reinforced.
How to close the flow
In conjunction, thread and joints
All heating elements are assembled into a single system using threaded, welded, soldering and fitting compounds. Any of them is the least reliable place and happens - flow. Leading in the joints of pipes, even metal at least polypropylene, can be eliminated by epoxy-based adhesive. To do this, the surface of the metal pipe together should be cleared of the old paint and rust. You can make sweeping with a metal brush, sandpaper or scrape with a knife.
If the water is still soooed, it is better to wait until it stops.
Prepare fiberglass or medical bandage. If a pipe with a diameter of 15 to 32 mm, the length of the fabric is approximately 30-35 cm. Then, to the base of glue, add a hardener in proportion to the instructions specified in the instruction. You can, to increase the speed of solidification, add more hardener. The main thing is not to overdo it, but it will not have time to finish how glue hardens. The fabric is impregnated with glue and wrap the place of damage. After hardening, you can run heating. Work in rubber gloves. Similarly, it is also possible to eliminate leaks and on the joints of polypropylene pipes.
Most often the threaded connections of the radiator and pipes flow. In these places and at the joints, it can be used in addition to epoxy glue, cold welding and cement-gypsum bandages. The method is old, but quite workable. Finished dressings are rare on sale. Therefore, they are prepared independently. Cement with alabaster (building gypsum) is mixed in a ratio of 1 to 0.5, it is divorced by water to the state of thick rustic sour cream, bandage with strips of 30-35 cm, and falls into the dishes with cement-gypsum mortar, is impregnated then, is imposed by layers over the threaded compounds are embarrassed from above the remaining solution. Sometimes salt is introduced into the composition.
It is believed that as a result of reinforced metal oxidation, the fistin will faster.
In the radiator and in the pipes
There are damage in the radiator sections. Close the hole in the radiator without its dismantling is often not possible. You can close only where there is access. If "lucky" and the hole is available, it is possible to close it with the help of roofing self-press, bolt or chopic. Well, everything is clear to the chopper, sharpen and score into the hole, too much carefully cut off.
With a self-tapping room. It is necessary to choose a self-sufficiency, first of all, to pick up in length so that it does not make it in the opposite wall. If such is, you need to drill a 0.5 mm hole less than the thickness of the self-press, and the key to 8 wrap it into the hole.
If a big hole in the battery, you can put a bolt. To do this, you need to drill a hole and cut the thread with a tap and dipping the body of the bolt into the paint to wrap it into place. It is easy to do it easily on paper, in reality everything is much more complicated. The same methods can be applied to the repair of the pipe. If, thick-walled pipe (3 and more mm.)
Between battery sections
Came between battery sections can be eliminated if it is cast iron. Aluminum and bimetallic, very close sections are located and there will not come there.
Repair with cold welding or epoxy glue, additionally, a narrow clamp can be installed on top of the adhesive dressing or cold welding. He will fit everything under it to the body of the battery. In combination with the clamp, the heat-resistant sealant can be used.
Hidden wiring
Hidden, this is part of the heating system, which is closed by a concrete tie, insulation or decorative boxes. In all these cases, the most difficult to find and get to the place of damage. And after that, to evaluate which method of repairing to choose. Here without professionals - in no way.
On the straight area
On direct and affordable areas, you can use any method that you like better and is better. But the most reliable will be a mechanical method using clamps or bandages.
Frequent errors
It is impossible to save on the clamps and put narrow. Remember, the clamp must with a margin of 2-3 cm in each direction from the fistula to close the pipe, because from the inside the damage can be significantly larger.
Do not grab the pipe key and do not try to pull the "current" threads, on old pipes - dismiss.
Almost every housing owners came across the problem of pipes. And it does not matter, from which these pipes are made: metalplastic, copper or polypropylene. Pipes can flow both on the place of their joint and on any site of its surface. The causes of the leakage are also the most different, starting from the poor quality of the pipes and ending with the skill of a specialist engaged in the installation. Only when the trouble happened, guilty to search for no time, you need to urgently solve the problem. Just about how to quickly and efficiently eliminate the flow in the polypropylene tube, we will talk.
In fact, if the pipe was formed in the pipe, the master is not always to blame. Here they can play a role and completely different factors:
The temperature is incorrectly chosen When soldering polypropylene pipes. Because of this, a slit can be formed in the junction of the pipe with the fastener element. The way to eliminate the flow in the polypropylene tube is only one to change the defective design element to the new one.
Weared nut. If the locking nut really simply loosened, then pull it out, and thus eliminate the leakage of the protracted fitting, will not be any problems. If the nut with a defect (or the inner laying has deteriorated), there is a reason for more serious repairs. Some in such situations are making a sealant to leak. But this is only a temporary solution to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube. The fitting must be changed, and the sooner, the better.
Poorly prepared pipe. Polypropylene pipes with uneven cuts when mounting with the help of supervised fittings will be given to flow anyway.
Polypropylene pipe junctions connected by gluewill leak if:
used inappropriate type of glue;
with adhesive composition, everything is in order, but after installing polypropylene pipes, water was too early; The glue did not have time to "grab" as it should, eventually appear.
Options for repairing leaks in a polypropylene tube can be very different, and they differ above in their quality. The most reliable way to eliminate flow is to replace the damaged cut pipe to the new one.
Spike through fittings by high-temperature conjugation method gives excellent results. But sometimes it is unavailable, and therefore in certain situations use other ways to eliminate leaks.
So, the polypropylene tube burst into your house. Eliminate the flow is quite possible and on its own. It is impossible to say that it will be easy, but there is no nothing superpower in such a repairs. The main thing is that at hand you need the necessary tools and consumables.
To eliminate leaks in polypropylene pipes using standard soldering, you will need a special soldering iron (the so-called polyfus). But, unfortunately, it is not always on hand, or even has neighbors.
From the situation in this case, it is easy to exit, there is a "handicraft welding" method. When using this method, the gaps in the polypropylene tube are sealed with a material from which this pipe is consisting of. What do we have to do? Attach some item from a split metal to a crack (for example, a regular nail or scolding). Polypropylene will start melting than you need to immediately use and smell the hole. Sometimes a nail will not have to heat up, an ordinary lighter is enough to eliminate leaks.
Sometimes it is not possible to eliminate the flow in a polypropylene tube with a soldering iron. It usually happens when the crack was formed on the place of the joint of the pipes, and to get to it with a soldering iron problematic. In such situations, use the alternative method of eliminating leaks. For this, you will need only two things: first, the chomotic of the desired size, which can be bought at any economic store, and, secondly, a special industrial hairdryer to heat the joint. Heat until the moment until the polypropylene soften, then we put the clamp on the pipe and tighten it. Leather in the polypropylene tube is eliminated. Of course, not every person holds an industrial hairdryer at home, but in case of needs, it is easy to rent.
How to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube in the most effective ways
1. Elimination of leaks in a polypropylene tube with cold welding
With the help of cold welding, you can connect almost any materials, ranging from the tree and ending with marble and ceramics. But in this case, we are more interested in the sealing of pipes from a certain material. How to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube using a cold welding method? Here is a step-by-step instruction:
Prepare a place of repair. To do this, remove all the dirt from the pipe surface, degrease it and treat it with sandpaper.
Prepare a polypropylene patch, Which is going to impose on a crack in the pipe. The sizes of the patch should be greater than the hole, and it is necessary to process it in the same way as the surface of the pipe.
Create a solution of cold welding. To do everything correctly, carefully read the instructions on the package. After you break the mixture (if required), it should warm up a little and acquire some plasticity. It is possible to knead the composition only in rubber gloves.
Improte the mixture immediately on both surfaces, attach a patch to the pipe. If necessary, fix with a harness or clamp.
Wait about an hour - It is so much time you need to solve the mixture. After that, you can handle its previously scheduled way: for example, paint. But water is impossible for such a pipe. The fact is that the maximum strong mixture will be only a day after it is applied.
If some mixture remains after work, It is not necessary to get rid of it. Wrap it in polyethylene and leave up to better times.
2. Elimination of leaks in a polypropylene tube with sealant
The use of sealant to eliminate leaks is not a complete repair of the pipe, but only a temporary solution to the problem that has arisen before you.
Once again you need to remind you of an important point. No matter how much way you were going to eliminate the flow in the polypropylene tube, the pipe first must be prepared for repair. Namely, degreasing and stripping all the necessary surfaces. Special attention is paid to the joints of the polypropylene tube and fitting.
Sealant to eliminate leaks can be different types:
Neutral. Suitable not only for polypropylene pipes. However, to apply it, you will need a mounting gun.
Acid. If the pipes in the apartment do not differ in strength, then for repair it will be completely useless.
Silicone. Just like a neutral sealant, silicone has universal properties. Its main "field of activity" - fusey joints of sewer pipes.
3. Screening of the flowing section of the polypropylene tube
Before the start of the clamp, as in all previous cases, the polypropylene tube must be prepared for the repair. After stripping the pipe, it would be nice to dry it, at least even a simple hairdryer.
After that, choose the material from which we will make a bandage for the pipe. It may be plastic or fiberglass (the main thing is that the repair material can be glued to the polypropylene tube using epoxy glue). If you intend to use fiberglass to eliminate leaks, then consider: she needs to wrap at least five revolutions.
In width to such a patch, there are also certain requirements: it should be a size of at least one and a half diameter of the polypropylene tube. Apply glue on a bandage material, wrap it with them, leading to flow, and then press in advance prepared clamps.
Before you to start the pipe water, you need to give glue to dry. The waiting time depends on the type of glue, but usually at room temperature it dries at least a day. If the ambient temperature is about 15 degrees, then it will be necessary for it in two or three times more.
How to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene heating pipe
One of the features of such a repair is that you will most likely have to remove the decorative panels that hide heating pipes behind them. It is necessary in order to accurately determine the place in which the flow was formed.
The second feature is the constant availability of hot water heating pipes. Based on this, and the methods of eliminating leaks will be somewhat different from the usual. However, nothing complicated. To eliminate leaks in the polypropylene tube of heating, there is enough ordinary bandage and a simple cook salt.
Found a crack in a pipe? Now borrow it seems to be a victim. After each turn of the bandage, sprinkle it with salt. The trick here is that the salt takes on the function of glue and blocks cracks in the polypropylene tube. And if the cracks are very small, you can even abandon the bandage. From the inside the pipe to salt will soon be closer to different types of scale, and flowing will be blocked.
The people are also applied by another (no less simple and reliable) method to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube. All that is needed for him is a small piece of soft rubber. Cut it from the old automotive chamber (the bicycle is also suitable), tightly wind the hole in the polypropylene tube, fix the clamp on top. The flow is eliminated! The only one, it is better to use not one clamp, but all three: one to attach over the platoon in a polypropylene tube, two others - for insurance along the edges of rubber. The width of the rubber patch should exceed the crack width for several centimeters.
Another way to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube is to buy a special bandage. This is something like clamps with thick rubber. How to put such a bandage on the hole and eliminate the flow, will figure out even far from the plumbing wisdom of a person. The bandage wars the pipe around the perimeter and fastened with bolts.
The flow appears not only because of the formation in polypropylene cracks of cracks. Places where the pipe is connected to the knee or clutch, often the weakest in the entire design. How to eliminate flow in this case? Helps a tight winding of a problemable rubber. After that, overlaps two clamps: on fitting and on the pipe.
Although there may be some difficulties due to the fact that the diameters of the polypropylene tube and fitting differ. In some cases, even the factory bandage will not help, since it is done for the pipes of a certain size. The way out of the situation has long been found by folk craftsmen. On a polypropylene tube, the diameter of which is smaller, three or four rubber spit from the chamber are superimposed. The fitting turns only a couple of times. The thickness difference is thus aligned. Top of secure clamp - and leaks eliminated.
Another option to eliminate leaks in a polypropylene tube is simply wrapped with its cloth with epoxy-impregnated with epoxy glue. After the fabric hardens, there will be no trace from the leaks.
As you can see, almost all considered methods of eliminating leaks in the polypropylene heating pipe do not require special skills and some incredible efforts. Remember only that these are temporary measures. At any time, flowing in problem places may resume. So advice: After the heating season is completed, the damaged fragment of the polypropylene tube will certainly be replaced with a new one.
How to eliminate flowing in a polypropylene tube once and for all
Polypropylene pipes are rarely beginning to leak without explicit mechanical exposure by side. But if this happened, the matter is probably as the pipes themselves. And this means that eliminating the flow will have to be again and again. Or it is worth replacing the pipes entirely.
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What threatens even a small leakage of water pipes in the apartment, they know, perhaps, everything is at least, it is constant dampness, but as a maximum of a serious flood with all the ensuing consequences. That is why you know how to eliminate the flow in the pipe reliably, quickly and efficiently in some situations is vital.
The flow or impulse can occur both in the places of threaded compounds of the water pipeline and on the body of the pipe and even on the welded connections - to eliminate all these leaks in one universal way is simply impossible. In each individual case, the leakage of pipes is eliminated by an individual way - somewhere you can install the clamp, and somewhere it is impossible to use and have to resort to alternative methods. Where and how one or another method of emergency elimination of leaks, we will discuss in this article.
How to eliminate leaks in a threaded connection?
Perhaps eliminate the flow in places of packs of threaded connections is the easiest way - for this you just need to fit the fitting with the key. In some cases, this may not be enough - when the packle violates over time, it will at least partially be replaced. We'll have half to unscrew the fitting, add a little pacle and tighten it back. Such an operation can be performed under pressure. Just act neatly and quickly, constantly controlling the process of water flow.
Sometimes you can face the damage to the body of the thread - this is the weak point of almost all pipelines. The body of the thread is much thinner than the rest of the pipe, so it rotches it faster. It is easier to foresee this situation than to eliminate - Signs and threaded transitions need to be high and, and, without one layer.
But if it happened so, then such a leakage of pipes is eliminated only by the "surgical" way - a sagon is cut and a new one is installed in its place. Well, in anticipation of representatives of the Vodokanal, which must turn off the water supply, it is possible to temporarily eliminate such a flow using raw rubber, tightly having closed the damaged place.
How to eliminate flowing in the body of the pipe?
For the most part, such leaks arise due to improper care of pipes - condensate and wandering currents make their dirty business quite quickly. Therefore, to eliminate flowing in a riser formed in an affordable place, you will have to use a clamp - you can buy it on any construction market. As a rule, all leaks occur unexpectedly and acquired such a clamps in advance - they are worthy of a bird's penny, so buying their different diameters so that the emergency repair of any pipes can be performed.
In some cases, install the clamp on the pipes, and thereby eliminate the flow in the pipe, may not work. As a rule, the main inconvenience associated with the inability to apply the clamp is the close location of the pipes to the walls. In these cases, if the leakage is minor, temporarily can be sealed with two-componations cold welding - it is carefully warm up with hands, after which it is pressed into a damaged pipe of pipes. For some time it will have to hold on the damaged area so that the glue grabbing as it should.
A very important point in all this business is the purity of pipes - it is natural that cold welding will not stick to the old paint. The pipe must be carefully cleansed from the paint using a knife or large sandpaper - you need to act quickly and at the same time carefully so as not to increase the size of the leakage.
Elimination of leaks in heating pipes
Canding the issue of how to eliminate the flow of heating pipes, it is necessary to understand the cardinal difference between the heating system and the water supply - it consists exclusively in the temperature of the fluid located in them. It is hot water that is a decisive factor when choosing a technology to eliminate leaks. It is much easier here - small leaks disappear independently, and to eliminate the larger, only an ordinary cook salt and bandage will need.
In some cases, in a small damaged place, it is enough to just go to the salt several times, and the flow will delay. In cases, with larger leaks of heating pipes, the "wound" must be bandaged, accompanying this process with an abundant coating of salt on each layer of the wounded gauze.
It should be understood that such a removal of pipe leaks is a temporary solution of the issue - as soon as water is cooled in the pipes, the flow will resume. If possible, the heating is better to use the clamp - this is a more reliable and long-term way to solve the problem. The clamp can stand for years and wait when you deign to replace the rotten pipes.
Elimination of leakage in plastic pipes
As a rule, the systems of plastic water pipes proceed quite rarely, but if it happens, the fittings are mostly flowing. Eliminate such a flow of a plastic pipe is very simple - a nut that is responsible for fixing and sealing a plastic pipe, just need to click a little. Perform such repairs can even under pressure. It is necessary to act neat and without jerks - otherwise the nut can burst and then the flood is guaranteed.
It is worse if the question arises how to eliminate the flow of a plastic pipe formed in her body - as a rule, it is almost impossible. In this case, only the complete replacement of the damaged area will save, but for now you are waiting for the emergency brigade, the leakage can only be reduced slightly with a clamp. You can also try and control the flow of the resulting water flowing from the damaged place - for example, the pipe can be wrapped with a cloth and substitute for her some kind of horror, which will send water not to the neighbors to the ceiling, and in your toilet.
In general, as practice shows, each flow in the pipes requires an individual approach - even a large leakage, the result of which is a jet of water, can be eliminated with the help of a wooden chop into the hole. The main thing is to understand that all measures to help solve the issue of how to eliminate the flow of pipes, are exclusively temporary - in mandatory, they must follow the overhaul of the pipeline.
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Operation of such internal networks such as water supply and heating is fraught with small leaks of pipelines that can lead to a row of unpleasant consequences.
Long expectation of specialized services designed to eliminate the specified disadvantage in systems can only aggravate the current situation. It is not difficult to eliminate leaks in the pipe yourself, without the use of specialized tools and materials.
The cold water pipeline in the summer can collect large amounts of condensate on the outer surface. If you notice a small puddle directly under the pipe, make sure that the reason is in leakage, and not a banal condensate. To do this, take a large enough dry rag and wipe the pipe thoroughly. If within a few seconds you will find traces of moisture on the surface of the pipeline - measures should be taken to eliminate leaks.
The leaks in the pipe can be formed in various places - on threaded compounds, in angular colors and in rectilinear sites. Often ways to combat such defects may be different. Consider the main of them.
Pipe repair with bandage and paint
In the event that a small leakage is detected on a rectilinear section of the metal pipe, we propose to perform the following steps:
1. If possible, overcoat the water and wipe the surface of the pipe from moisture thoroughly;
2. Prepare a wide medical or construction bandage and one of the following materials:
- oil paint with a brush;
- epoxy adhesive;
- gypsum solution for consistency close to liquid sour cream.
3. Apply on the insulated surface of the pipe with a reserve of 2-4 centimeters to each side of the prepared insulating composition;
4. Gently perform one - two turns of the bandage;
5. Apply another layer of insulating substance and repeat P.P. 3 and 4 several times;
6. Having achieved the desired result, leave a "bandage" for several hours. After that, you can safely let the water in the pipeline. If desired, it is possible to cover it from above the oil paint for the color of the pipe to mask.
Elimination of the leaks of a cook salt
Another option that can be used in the absence of the above-tagging materials is to use the usual cook salt, which is accurately found in every home. The method is embanked to each layer of bandage around a teaspoon of this mineral. When wetting the salt, it curses small cracks in steel pipes and eliminates leak.
Rubber overlay repair
These methods can eliminate small leaks of a cold or hot water pipeline. In the event that there was a need for a small repair of the heat pipe, as well as in case of the impossibility of overlapping the water, we propose to use another way. You will need the following materials:
- rubber tape 20-25 centimeters long;
- soft steel wire or two metal clamps;
- with their absence - a piece of steel plate with a thickness of up to 0.5 millimeters, three times with a large diameter of the pipe with holes drilled along the edges.
From the listed materials it is necessary to make a temporary insulating dressing on the pipe. For this, pre-protected the place of the leaks, clog it with a rubber ribbon in any direction, slightly pulling it out. In the absence of strip rubber, it is good to use well for this purpose cut along a piece of a bike chamber, a watering hose and the like.
Rubber winding edges Lock, tightening clamps. Instead, you can use the steel plate. Wrap it around the rubber bandage and pull the bolts with nuts pre-installed in the holes.
Elimination of leaks "cold welding"
It is much more difficult to eliminate small water leaks located in close proximity to the threaded connections. After overlapping the flow, you can use a way with a bandage and oil paint, but it is better to purchase a pre-special fast frozen composition, called "cold welding".
Apply the composition to the problem space, distribute it with a steel plate or rubber spatula and leave until complete drying, whose time can be clarified in the instructions for the material.
Pipe repair wooden chop
One of the old ways to eliminate large pipeline leaks uses the property of wood absorb moisture and significantly increase its volume. If the fistula has sufficient dimensions, the wooden wand is inserted into it and the hammer is slightly stigled. After turning on the water, flowing for a while is saved. Then the wood, swelling, completely blocks the problem space.
All specified methods involve temporary liquidation of leaks in the pipe. The destruction of the metal will continue, which will lead to the re-education of the defect. In the event that you want to fully protect yourself and your family, we propose to use the cardinal method - the replacement of the damaged area of \u200b\u200bthe pipeline. To do this, find the nearest threaded connection and expand it before turning off the water. Recovering the fistula of 20-25 centimeters, disconnect the problem area of \u200b\u200bthe pipe with the help of a grinder or a laminated hacksaw. Then clean the end of the remaining pipe and cut the thread on it. Between the two threaded endings of the pipeline, install a piece of a new pipe, just having a thread at the ends. After pre-wrapped the thread with linen winding, connect the insert with the main pipeline. This method of eliminating leaks in the pipe is the most reliable.
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In many houses, the heating system is built on the Soviet model. In those days, steel was used as the only material. It has a high level of strength and is rather durable. However, like other metal materials, steel is easily corrosion. Over time, the crack is formed in the place of the appearance of corrosion. The result is to flow in the heating pipe.
Causes of leakage
- corrosion;
- increased level of humidity;
- sharp temperature differences;
- long service life;
- incorrect installation work;
- periodic emergence of unnecessary loads.
All these factors contribute to the gradual destruction of the pipes and the occurrence of leaks.
The most common areas of leakage
- folds of folds;
- connections of pipes with fittings, cranes;
- joints;
- smooth areas with a damaged surface.
Preparation for leakage
It is possible to eliminate the flow of water in the pipe at any time of the year. When damage is detected, it is not necessary to postpone the work until the end of the heating season. This may lead to more serious damage.
Before proceeding to eliminate leakage, the following factors should be taken into account:
- type of material used;
- location of damage.
Straight
The reason for the malfunction in this place can serve as low-quality welding. Over the time of the pipeline, connected by welding, lose its strength. This leads to a violation of the integrity of the pipe.
How to eliminate leaks in the heating pipe in this case:
- Preparation of the surface. Cleaning the pipe from paint and drying. When working, care must be taken. When cleaning the surface from paint, the degree of damage may increase. This will lead to strengthening leaks.
- To eliminate malfunction use special clamp. He plays the role of patchwork. It must be purchased in a construction store. The clamp has a rubber layer that performs the function of the gasket. It must be applied on the pipe with a rubber side.
- The clamp is dragged on the pipe with bolts.
If you use a metal clamp, you must first lay the rubber gasket into the placech. Clamp should be tightened with a screwdriver.
If there was no clamp at hand, it can be used copper wire instead. In this case, the rubber gasket is dragged and fixed with wire.
Elimination of leaks on threads and joints
The main causes of faults:
- poor quality installation;
- violation of the integrity of the pipeline;
- disruption of tightness;
- impact corrosion.
To resolve a malfunction, you must perform the following steps:
- Resetting the rising system.
- Disconnecting the thread with a wrench.
- Cleaning the thread from pollution.
- Applying a layer of seal or sealant in a damaged place. Actions must be followed clockwise.
- Installation of the system.
- Connecting the heating system.
- Running risers.
Damage to the radiator sections
Radiators have a plasticity property. Therefore, the resulting flow at cold temperatures can be delayed by itself.
If still it is necessary to eliminate damage, the following steps of work should be performed:
- Disabling the heating system.
- Dropping the risers.
- Disconnecting the radiator. When working, it is recommended to substitute for a radiator basic. Perhaps in the riser will remain water that can flow.
- Using the radiator key, disconnect part of the radiator with a damaged area.
- Accession to the radiator of the new nipple (it should be tightened well).
- Connecting the heating device and start the risers.
The lamellar radiator flows
This type of radiator is characterized by thin walls. They are most often affected by damage.
Usually, in the event of damage, it is recommended to completely replace the part. However, there is a way to eliminate damage at home:
- Disabling the heating system.
- Dropping the risers.
- Preparation of the surface. Cleaning the place of damage from dirt, fat and corrosion.
- Application on a damaged section of a mixture of cold welding.
- The mixture should operate. This happens for 30-40 minutes.
- Connecting and launching the heating system.
Temporary ways to solve the problem
If there is no suitable specialized equipment at hand, you can use scribe tools:
- As a patch, you can use a piece of rubber (for example, a bicycle chamber). It should be coated on the pipe and secure the wire.
- You can use the factory bandage. Show it on the pipe.
- You can close the flow using the usual medical bandage and the cement mixture. To do this, it is necessary to dissolve cement with water and to dug the bandage in the resulting mixture. The finished bandage should be cut several times around the pipe. The finished area from above is also worth losing the cement mixture. After a day, after complete drying, the patch can be connected by the heating system.
- To eliminate leaks, you can also use the cement-salt mixture. To do this, it is necessary to lower the bint to the cement solution for a few seconds. On the finished bandage it is necessary to apply a salt layer. The place of damage is winding up by a bandage several times and fixed by clips.
If the battery flows
The leakage in the radiator requires its replacement. However, you can use a temporary way to eliminate the problem. So you can extend the battery life for 3 months.
For work, the following materials will be required:
- Soft fabric.
- Epoxy adhesive. If there is no glue at hand, you can use wood lacquer or oil paint.
Progress:
- Disabling the heating system.
- Dried damaged surface.
- Application of glue on the fabric.
- Walking with a cloth of a damaged area in several layers.
- The heating system can be included after complete drying of the installed materials.