Everything is rotten through and through!!! The whole system needs to be changed!!! - the plumber swore, hammering a chopik into a pipe located in the basement of an old five-story building...
Where he was detained by FSB officers red-handed ...
Anecdote from the site- "anekdoty.ru"
In the housing and communal services system, especially in the houses of the new fund with repairs and the operation of pipelines, it looks more and more less decent. Flooded basements are difficult to find because pipes made of polymer materials are used almost everywhere, and their service life is about 50 years.
But if you look into the old fund, especially the houses that are about to begin to be demolished, there is simply trouble. Metal pipes that have been in service for many years begin to burst from the usual standard pressure. Naturally, the loss of energy resources is not good for anyone, nor for residents, nor for organizations that supply water and heat.
This is where plumbers come into play, no welders who, in theory, should change the problem area, namely a locksmith.
In order to temporarily to eliminate the leak, use homemade clamps designed for the diameter of the pipe. They are made of three elements: a tin, a piece of rubber, usually an automobile, and a bolt. If you got hold of washers, then very well. Their installation on the problem area is carried out with a minimum water pressure in the pipe.
In emergency cases, or when there is absolutely no time to eliminate the leak, as well as where the clamp cannot be installed (at the corner joints of the tubes), pieces of pointed wood, hard rocks are used - chopik or as they sometimes say wooden electrode, its diameter is calculated by the size of the hole in the leaky piece of pipe.
How is chopik clogged?
A plumber, coming to the problem area from the side, so as not to splash water, directs a piece of wood into the hole from which liquid gushes under decent pressure, puts it to the hole, water pours it and at this time strikes the other side of the chopik, the fibers of the tree get stuck in sharp edges of the pipe. The flow of water usually stops, but not completely. Wire is sometimes used to securely fix a piece of wood. Then physical processes come in: the special properties of wood to expand its fibers when moisture is absorbed into it. Thus, the chopik is even more securely held in the hole being repaired and the leak stops.
Life hack
If the wooden handle in the ax is loose or it has cracked, dip it in a bucket of water for a day, according to the analogy with a cap. From expansion, you will well hold the ax in its seat.
Further if possible, this section is replaced with a new one. Or the chopik is cut off almost to the root, a bolt of a larger diameter is installed around this hole, a professional welder will scald it in a circle to the pipe. It remains only to screw in the bolt, preferably with a piece of rubber, or wind up the thread. Voila, the renovation is complete.
In my practice, there were a couple of cases when a cap came in handy in an emergency. In the first most memorable one, I almost flooded the basement with food (sugar, flour), changed the water meter, the black thread holding the sleeve rotted and fell off. Water poured into the room, fortunately, there was a cleaning lady's mop at hand, with a wooden handle (you can't find such a thing now). And he hammered it into the hole ...
I hope the information was useful to you. From Uv. Timofey Mikhailov.