[Seabrook1983$]

Plumbing in the new laundry room is a bit complicated, and I am an amateur plumber at best. Working in 3/4” CPVC, I’ve been making subassemblies, carefully marking fitting depth and angle, build up away from the point of installation. Anyway, sitting at the bench, applying glue to a fitting and the end of a pipe… and I had done the wrong one! :vs_mad:


Well, just the fitting. Panicking, I wiped out the interior of the fitting, got it down to bare CPVC. Is this fitting “toast”, need to throw it away, instead of re-primering and re-gluing? Of course, the last connection in a subassembly, I might need to throw rather a lot away that I had already done and, with lockdown, getting more fittings might be unwise. But if that’s the way it is…

 

[mark sr]

It might be ok but no guarantees. Can't you just go back a little, cut the pipe, install a coupler and go from there ??

 

[Seabrook1983$]

It might be ok but no guarantees. Can't you just go back a little, cut the pipe, install a coupler and go from there ??

Yes, I can start over. Was hoping to find that I did not need to. :sad:

 

[Ghostmaker]

I would use it.

 

[Seabrook1983$]

I decided I had enough supplies to scrap much of the subassembly and start over. This time, I paid closer attention and no OOPS! moment.

Thanks, all, for the input!

 

[bruceb3]

As long as it did'nt dry completely, you can reprimer and glue it. The primer would re soften and reprep the cpvc.

 

[Seabrook1983$]

As long as it did'nt dry completely, you can reprimer and glue it. The primer would re soften and reprep the cpvc.

Thanks. I have finished the plumbing and a few loads of laundry in, it seems to be holding fine (with the all-new pipe).