I’ve had a question from John from Somerset. He wants to replace some of the old copper pipes on his radiators going out to an out building and he’s seen plastic piping in his local plumbing store, but was unsure how to cut it, what tools he needed.

John, it’s as easy as this. You need a pair of ratcheting plastic pipe cutters like we’ve got here and they literally open up, they’ll take 28mm or 22mm pipe (which is this size) or as I’m using here, standard 15mm you’d use on the radiator.

It’s as complicated as this: the pipe actually comes marked with 25mm cutting measurements on it. You literally measure to where you want to cut the pipe. As easy as this: cut through and there’s your 15mm plastic pipe cut.