How do I mend a crack in an old lead water pipe?

isolate the water and cut out the cracked pipe and install copper.put a lead-lock on either side and put the copper between and tighten.they are similar to compression joints .your local plumbers merchants will stock them and this is a perm fix

paul
August 2008

Use milliputty www.milliput.co.uk. Check out the website it even tells you how to do it. I used it on a split lead pipe in a 100 year old house. Worked fine.

joe
August 2008