What this glue is and where it makes sense
Poxipol is a two-part epoxy. You squeeze out equal amounts of the two pastes, mix them, and once it sets you get a hard joint that can be sanded and drilled. It bonds to metal, ceramics, wood and many plastics. The packaging lists the materials it won’t work on, and it’s worth reading before you buy, because epoxy simply doesn’t take on some plastics.
In plumbing, Poxipol is good for small cracks in parts that aren’t under pressure: traps, waste pipes, housings, brackets. On a pipe carrying mains pressure it’s an emergency measure. It’ll stop the drip for a few days until someone arrives with a new fitting, but it doesn’t replace swapping that section.
Often you can glue it, but there’s no point. A plastic trap is cheap and takes minutes to replace, while a glued one tends to crack again right next to the repair.
Once there, a plumber usually checks the whole set-up: the washers in the trap nuts, the flexible hoses to the tap, the valve under the basin. The crack is often just the visible part, while water also seeps from a loose nut nearby.
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Where gluing goes wrong
- Gluing a wet, greasy surface. Epoxy needs it dry and scuffed, or the joint drops off the first time the part moves.
- Mixing by eye. Too much of one paste and the glue stays soft or turns brittle.
- Turning the water on straight away. The quick initial set isn’t full strength, and the maker states how long to wait.
- Treating a patch on a pressurised pipe as permanent. It holds until the first water hammer.
- Gluing something that cracked under strain. If the trap was screwed on crooked, the crack will come back a little further along.
Poxipol water leak repair: getting ready
- Shut off the water to that point, or to the whole flat.
- Take a close-up photo of the crack and one of all the pipework under the basin or sink.
- Check whether it’s been wet under there for a while: a swollen cupboard base tells you more than the puddle.
- If you’ve already bought glue or a new part, mention it in the order.
If the water has reached an extension lead or a socket under the worktop, cut the power to that circuit first.
Finding someone to fix it
- Describe what cracked and where in the app, with photos. A plumber can see straight away whether glue will do or a new trap is needed.
- Bids come in from tradespeople who take small jobs like this in Warsaw, each with a price and a date.
- You choose by price and reviews. Contact details and the address are shared after you pick, and you pay the tradesperson directly; he issues the invoice.
Parts and materials are paid separately from the labour. If his repair leaks, he redoes it. Old pipes and faults hidden inside the wall are not his responsibility.
Order in the app
Describe the job, add photos and the address. Tradespeople send their own prices and dates, and you pick one of the offers.
Open the app
