Repairing 3 Inch Copper Drain Pipe

Once the water supply is shut off decide how to fix a leaky pipe temporarily to prevent damage until a more permanent repair can be made.

Repairing 3 inch copper drain pipe.

Longer than the damaged section. I secure the gasket material with a pipe clamp the kind that has slots along most of its length and has a screw type mechanism to tighten and compress the rubber. Pipe repair clamps secure pipe in place so that repairs can be made to damaged corroded or leaky water and gas pipes. Rather than struggle with cement pros use a mission coupling photos 3 and 4.

You must have the ability to create a suction inside. Most drain systems use rigid pipes fairly large in diameter. If the pvc is part of the drainage system don t run water into the drains during the repair. Mark the leak shut off the main water valve and drain or thaw and drain the affected pipe.

When repairing a section of pipe in an existing run don t try to cement solvent weld all the new couplings. The key to a good. You can t flex them enough to slide on that last fitting and get it to seat fully. View more view all sort filter.

You can also push pvc stoppers or rubber plugs into open holes in the pipe. You can buy a sweat coupling sized to repair 1 2 in. The simpler repair that i use for pin hole leaks is that i wrap the pipe and the leak with gasket rubber which is about 3 32 thick and i cut it about an inch wide. A to z.

Cut out the damaged section photo 1 then measure the gap and from the sweat coupling cut a repair piece that s 1 in.