Galvanised steel pipe
Building and Construction · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
The traditional water pipe: how it is made, how it is joined, and how it fails from the inside.
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- 6 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Why proper pipework matters
- Galvanised steel pipe
- Copper pipe
- Plastic pipes
- Choosing a pipe material
- Pipe sizes and how they are stated
- Pipe fittings and what each does
- Valves and taps
- Reading a pipework drawing
- Measuring pipe and allowing for fittings
- Cutting pipe
- Threading steel pipe
- Making a threaded joint
- Compression joints
- Soldered capillary joints
- Solvent welding PVC
- Fusion welding PPR
- Why bend rather than use fittings
- Bending pipe: springs, formers and machines
- Setting out a bend
- Common bending faults
- Supporting and fixing pipework
- Testing for leaks
- Safety in pipework
- The whole pipework process