white or wheat bread....

[chris fox]

what to use for soaking water in line! Seriously, I will be soldering up my master shower this tomorrow and have a question on flushing bread out of the line when done. I will be removing all the cartiridges in the rough in valve.

When picking up some couplings etc at the borg a "plumbing area" employee said theres was no need to flush out the lines with bread before loading the cartridges the bread will dissolve no worries. This dosent seem right I could see this effecting flow etc if any is lodged up in the valve and cartirdige. Since your the experts is this guy full of sh**? Being a novice I would think to flush out any water, bread etc before loading the cartiridges and reassembling the valve, right?

Thanks, Chris

BTW. my wife just came up to see what I was doing while writing this... she sees the word "Love" and a heart with a guy shooting a smile back at me.
What a great laugh this time in the morning!!!

[Terry]

No, It's not like that.

I was looking at a woman when that picture was taken on the Oregon Coast.
I was having breakfast, a big German pancake, and Cathy was taking the picture.

If you use bread, use white bread. You don't want the ones with seeds.
I would flush the valve before putting the cartridge in.
Or if you were doing a faucet, I would pull a supply and flush into a can.

[chris fox]

Thanks Terry....

hey, at least my wife thinks you were good looking:)

[Verdeboy]

That's the crap I grew up on. Has no fiber at all.

It's funny because fiber helps our digestive system keep moving, while fiberless white bread plugs us up!

[chris fox]

I will be picking up some Wonder bread after work

[master plumber mark]

wonder bread is the best......

its not great to eat, but works well for
making bread wads for plumbing....

[hj]

Bread? Who needs bread? Do it correctly and you do not need bread. I haven't used any bread in 55+ years of plumbing. There are always better ways to stop or prevent water flow.

[Dunbar Plumbing]

I used it once in 88.......didn't work even though the homeowner insisted.

Bought jet-swets and broke it *unscrewed/fell apart* and never used it.

[Cass]

I have never used it 1 time. I have always been able to do something else.

[RochNY]

Bread? Who needs bread? Do it correctly and you do not need bread. I haven't used any bread in 55+ years of plumbing. There are always better ways to stop or prevent water flow.


If there is a long horizontal span of pipe and you cut it in the middle it will always have a "trickle" of water. How can you get around it with out using bread? Thanks for any replies.

[Cass]

Thats not true.

Once it drains out your all set.

The important thing is not to have a closed system.

[hj]

1. find the leaking valve and emasculate it.
2. Blow or suck any residual water out of the pipe.

[RochNY]

If you open a high faucet and a low faucet to drain down the pipes, and are working somewhere near the lowest point, won't it take forever to drain all of the water out of a horizontal pipe? (there always seems to be a "trickle" left) How do the pro's get around this problem so quickly? Thanks again.