hello I'm Roger Bisby from the Skill Builder channel and I've come down
to Pipelife's training centre just outside Cork in Ireland to talk to Chris
Wormald about Easy-Lay pipe basically and what you can do with it how you can
join it and all sorts of things it's incredibly flexible pipe a big
difference to the old Pex pipe that I used to struggle with, I think getting that
kind of radius on it is really quite impressive yeah and this is where it
really comes into its own posture you can you can make a Bend as tight as that
without any joints in it at all I was worried about that point where it
finally kinks don't go too far but this is this is actually quite easy to do or
gotta say yeah yeah hence why we call it easy there Roger is that here is that
reason so yeah I'll tell you up here for things anyway you're gonna show us a few
things I can't just ask you first of all about the wrapping have you got a
coil we can have a look at now when it arrives beautifully wrapped and I
get my Stanley knife and go [swish] you've got to take it off carefully
haven't you so what what would be the correct way of unwrapping that pipe yeah
well once you once you cut the outer wrap there yeah you can take the spiral
off and then you get down to an inner cellophane wrap yeah and from the
cellophane wrap it the easiest thing is to just take the take the part from the
middle of the coil and just pull it out nice and easy and also take it as you
need it yeah because I know you threw calls out to this so I haven't agreed to
stand and does even longer than there and and if I'm doing underfloor heating
you know without one of those Piper winders you know sometimes I have
stretch the whole thing up for God you know it's a try and get rid of it so you
leave there always leave it out er yeah leave the apps of cellophane on that's
underneath the blue wrap off so this is just to protect it while it's in
transport and I'll see on site when it's getting carried around imagine them
don't put the little Fanning's round do you like some people no we use the
cellophane on that on the easy like yeah just found it you know from the
Installer point of view they can take the part from the middle and pull it out
how someone they need it yeah I mean the big the big difference with this versus
saw is we don't bag the coils I don't understand it we just find the plumbers
a little later they can just sling it over the shoulder line around very good
point especially when you're far enough for that oh yeah yeah and I'm you know
basically when I'm carrying because I'm always carry a drill some yeah
makes it easier stuff in as well slipping us live and all over the place
we do straight lines in three and six meters or three and six metre yeah yeah
probably not in stock but obviously I'm sure if there's a requirement someone
will get in but for some project six meters just destroying it you know
clipping it every 500 millimetres it look so looks all right
actually I know that breasts my friend you want to show me a few tricks really
don't you yeah well we've got em what are we gonna use what look right yeah we
do we do let's let's ditch that we use we supply white and gray in ten fifteen
twenty two and twenty eight mil yeah so you got the full range there in easy lay
and obviously impacts which is the the more rigid of the two in the white only
so yeah I mean we've got a selection of fittings on the table here they're all
British standard fitting they're all fittings that any of the viewers would
have realized I would recognize these I know this one but the speed fit just
crazy and this is nice the little green indicator
yeah that's our own twist lock fitting there is it yeah I mean they're all
they're all variations on a theme basically but they're all they're all
british standard fittings and that's the important thing if it's a british
standard fitting it's compatible with our british standard pipe the only one
i'm not a fan of is this because the grab ring is not the amount of all is it
and I have seen people squash that query and will reuse it and so on so so that
one for me is not a favorite anyway so that's not a personal preference that's
the color match one gone out of the window then so ha
now I left the great park your pipe is compatible with any of any of this
british standard fittings it's obviously I mean normally someone would choose a
light pipe to go with what a wife they're taking it for so good in this
example it doesn't matter it's it's great easy lay pipe or whities are they
part so insert in as is always the case with any with any joint yeah and then
take your pick from the fitting snug fit some nice looks sometimes when you try
different liners now is it alright to use different people's
designers to be different parts yeah any insert or any liner that's from a
British standard system it's compatible with our part yep alright so if if if
you have a van full of inserts from somebody else
yeah then by all means use our poly butylene that's actually in here that's
cool yeah sometimes very yeah I have had them drop yeah I mean there's no there's
no barb on that insert that's that's that's our own easy lay insert and you
can see it fits very snugly into the battery which you get in the size right
anyway yep last one good thing so take the fitting British standard
fitting happens to be a John caster well I've picked up first
obviously it's ready to receive receive the pipe joints made with the speed to
fit you have to twist it to lock it thus the joint made to illustrate on the
other end of the pipe insert in the pipe we could take the poly plumb fitting on
this occasion pushed on there you can feel it's going on join made British
standard pipe british standard fittings at each end where you go off you go yeah
and you don't put witness marks on your your pipe through you know we used to
but we found the obviously with the insertion depth of different fittings
doesn't always correspond with the with the markers most at a time if you're a
plumber you you know you can't you know it's the first time you've ever made a
joint an insertion market can be useful a lot of people deal with a pencil
anyway yeah and there's nothing wrong with out to make sure that you've made
the joint properly yeah but like you say when you when you're used to a
particular type of fitting you know when you've made the joint
I'll tell you I do like by the way the fact that when you the amount there yeah
you're not leaving that yeah I know that insert inside the fitting yeah which
could be very nice really yeah because then you've got one little fitting yeah
fish it out in the way you go again so you're having that yeah like that now in
your your Ranger fit it's a twist a lot fitting you obviously do a stop in as
well so we don't yeah because without the stopping you if you
do nothing else you so stop ends though you so we can connect this up to copper
yep we can use compression fittings I yeah compression fittings on it a
British down a compression fitting obviously now yeah you could you could
quite easily put a piece of 50 ml copper into this side of the joint yeah so yeah
come from cotton basket okay yep fully suitable for a compression for in it's
not like the some there are some inserts on the market where you have to be
careful with it especially or compression yeah how's a reinforced
plastic doesn't matter it's compression yeah casting it obviously nearly use a
hex or never use a hacksaw when you cut a plastic part you want a nice clean
square cut so proper pipe cutters and this gives you square fat but as my as
my cutters get poor as it under as my colors get older than that good yep bit
like me really for as they get older nekkid I find a little yep
twist in action because it stops and going yep stops a pipe going over but
supposing yeah I did use some colors and I made that oval yeah what do i do then
well insert the first thing you do I'll see you about to make a joint so the
first thing we do is put there but the liner or the insert some people call it
into the pipe yeah so what I'm saying my friend sorry can we get that inside
there what I'm saying is
that's my pipe yeah yep for some reason I that's happened to it what do I do now
you would like to make a joint yeah yeah the first thing I would do is be cutting
slightly further down the pipe oh just cut it off yeah you're a slightly squash
tender file there which it is yeah that's what I'm not ideal I would
remake the job really make the cut put the insert in and then you good to make
a nice secure job could I just for example do that would that be all right
you can no sighs okay you can I mean you can see that you haven't actually
squashed a part because there you put the insert back in and it's formed it
back into a circle oh I'll try my best to squash it yeah okay so that's good
enough that you know I can say that yeah so long as that liner goes in yeah we're
back - yeah it's grover and the other thing we've got be careful of these yeah
yeah and that just comes down so just just good practice on site yeah being
careful where you're dragging the pipe that kind of thing and that's I mean
this sweet we loved them here exactly well I love it I know a lot of people
back in that they used they're not plastic piping over copper and I even
though guys who were late you know and they thought that it was cheating to use
flexi connectors on the temps but this stuff has just made life so much easier
yeah fact so I because I used to do a lot of loft conversions you know and it
was always the big finger plumber to come in first move all the tanks out the
way get them up and running so the guys could joist out and so on and having
this just that the absolute godsend we just go in there you've got everything
back up and running within an hour so yeah no blow no no go along that's the
other thing yeah there are certainly my things a lot
easier so apparently if we believe your literature of why wouldn't we you've
manufactured over a billion meters of this pipe this is true we have managed a
lot of this pipe which gets around the world well you do the mess if you know
how many times a billion meters is in a circumference of well I'm thinking I'm
guessing it'd be about forty two point five times around the world
but that's how they guess yeah we see what the viewers say but anyway it's a
lot is this a lot certainly a lot and you're still making it yep
and you've increased your production we've increased the production as well
the demands going up there's more people wanting to buy our pipe there's more
plumbers that are switching to the pipe and then once they switch to stick with
it yeah they stick with it because they know they can trust it it's reliable we
get the 50 year guarantee and it's a universal part you can carry in the back
of the round they'll work with any of those fittings so a 50 year guarantee I
don't think you can say fairer there there aren't many products that give you
a 50 year guarantee so I wish you success with your next billion meters
Thank You Roger and please come back and see us again
thank you very much