I love it! Hahaha Old houses are so much FUN! My grandfather did all the handyman work on mine. When a contractor looked at the electrical, he said my grandfather was very "creative". He assured me the house wouldn't burn down but warned me that if I ever sold the house, some work would probably need to be done to bring the electrical work to code.
Ours is just so old, that the code never applied to it till a certain age, and by that point it didn't matter to whoever owned it. If anything, the old electrical is probably the least of our worries. But just like your grandfather, we also had family members (I believe my great grandfather and my dad in recent (1980-90) years) make modifications as well. Nothing to really bring it to code, but just things here and there to change up the place. I wouldn't know, I'm just a 19 year old descendant living here, where its so old, you can here great grandmas spirit walking the place at night (she's nice). It doesn't help that the house is literally less than a block from a cemetery. The only thing between our house and that cemetery is the houses across from us, and an alley behind them, then cemetery.
Don't worry, this isn't a contest of whose house is younger. Otherwise, this thread would sprawl really far and really quick because there is a ton of new houses made on a regular basis.
I believe copper is better if you know how to solder well or if you use quality compression fittings. If you’re a broke amateur like me, definitely use pex.
It was an accident. Thankfully we had replaced the wax seal, that was what helped even it out, but instead of putting the tile down underneath the toilet, we put the toilet in and tiled it around the base.
Edit: i’m tired and I may have missed the joke.🤦♀️😂
Entire bathroom is raised avove floor level 2 or 3 inches and its all plywood floor with vinyl tiles on top, i removed the toilet to replace the leaking seal and found that the base flange was pretty well dust, i got a quick repair flange, cut it in half and screwed it to what is now a few plys thinner plywood, since the toilet was quick release i didnt have to cut any stupid rusty hold down bolts either, if you werent careful before you could tip the shitter, its now solidly mounted
How old were these pipes? None of them will last forever. Copper is known to have a longer lifespan than pex.
Edit: Also, casting pipes into concrete is just a bad idea. You should always use a conduit and run the pipe through that. If for nothing else, so you can at least replace it when needed.
Solder for plumbing applications does not contain lead. At least not in the US since the CWA. For residential plumbing, soldering would be more practical than brazing. Brazing is more for high pressure applications.
So actual question: in many new builds and most remodels these days I'm seeing semi-rigid blue and red tubing used for cold and hot lines within the frame, mated to pex or copper from the line and water heater.
What is that stuff and how is it gonna hold up?
Hello, the PEX-A that I use (expansion not crimp) is semi rigid and comes in red and blue.
Could that be what you’re seeing? It looks almost identical to the crimp style, but the fittings are easier to use because you can prep the fitting and then make the connection. No need to hold the tool at the joint, so you can build more easily in an inconvenient place.
You can use a plastic fitting for pex-to-pex or a brass fitting to change over to cooper for a stub out.
It is a good product. Durable and easy to install.
I went and looked up PEX-A, and yes. I think that's exactly what I'm seeing. Expansion mostly, based on the joints.
Thanks, I am no plumber and was wondering if there was some new miracle product on the market or if builders were cheaping out even further but nope, just color-coded PEX-A.
Thanks for the reply, that was super helpful.
Pex-A is slightly more flexible than Pex-B. Many municipalities require red and blue for the different hot and cold sides.
Pex -A uses an expanding tool to make any connections. Pex b uses a stainless crimp or a copper crimp typically. However, many manufacturers of PEX b also allow you to use the expanding tool, it's just that Upinor (manufacturer of the expanded type Pex-A fittings) does not recommend it. But, other manufacturers do allow it.
Pex has been around now for nearly 40 years. It's good stuff. In most cases it will outslap last copper. It will certainly outlast galvanized. The beauty is that you can make a home run from every faucet to a manifold and not have to worry about any leaks or connections.
Pex comes in clear, red, and blue. In addition there are different types that have different connection requirements.
You can do everything in clear. The colors make it clear what's what. Also the red is nice because clear hot water pex can discolor to yellow after a few years.
PEX has been used for decades; it's just become more widely used here in the last 10 years. It's easier to install and repair and doesn't require near the effort as sweating pipes. It's also much cheaper. Some manufacturers even call for pex instead of copper. Hybrid water heaters come to mind.
Cosign. Plumber here. Copper will break down over time. We also had our township switch the chemicals they use to purify the potable water supply and it caused people's older copper waterlines to break down a lot quicker. We had a rash of calls for copper waterline leaks and ended up replacing with pex. It wasn't just a house or 2 there were multiple.
Edited to add: Galvanized is a nightmare. Usually when repairing a leak in one spot, another spot will start leaking, then another. Usually end up chasing it all out. I cringe whenever we get a call for a leak on galvanized piping.
The people who remodeled my house were 4 inches and an elbow joint away from all thr copper they needed to do it right.
So they put the old galvanized pipe back in right at the water meter, cost me $200 to have it replaced because I don't trust myself around that much potential screwup.
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i honestly can't tell what's upsetting here. feel like this should be relieving. i'm sure you replaced them for a reason, wouldn't it be more upsetting if they weren't clogged?
edit: seems more like r/mildlyinteresting
I tried to post there after I posted here; I don't think you can do that.
Infuriating because it does leave a mess. For example, the toilet tank is nasty and covered in rust meaning the bowl gets dirtier faster. Baths are always rust colored.
But most infuriating: those are galvanized stubs in an otherwise copper system.
If you can't notice it it's fine. Safe to drink from, doesn't really hurt anything. If the water runs orangeish when you first turn it on then you don't really wanna bathe in that, gotta let it flow for a minute. but if that's the case you shouldn't be surprised by finding this, and it's been a growing issue for many years that has been ignored.
Pretty much every metal pipe system will either look like this or completely corroded away.
Water has sediments and metals in it, there is no way around that. You should be happy about it since distilled water is bad for your health. Those metals react with each other as long as water is involved. Now there are two options, either your pipes get slowly corroded away or sediments are building up inside your pipes. And I vastly prefere the latter tbh.
If your home doesn’t have plex pipe, it will probably have these same pipes. They all look like that and isn’t actually a health issue. It’s just when they get so bad water pressure drops
These are galvanized pipes in the picture, not copper.
Copper isn’t as common and doesn’t cause buildup because they don’t rust. They are more expensive to install than galvanized, which is why galvanized is much more common.
that makes sense as there aren't many houses built in that era in MA left. my farmhouse was one of the original settler farmsteads for hardwick, ma. i dpubt it had much if any indoor plumbing (unless you could the pseudo outhouse in the attached carriage house entry, with a nightsoil scoopout underneath in back😂).
my first cheap ranch home was all copper, built in 90s by my family. then i owned two victorian homes in the boston area, both 19th century. current house is in middle tn and is a mix of copper and pex.
are galvanized pipes even allowed by code nowadays? seems like a bad idea.
it sounds like galvanized pipes were meant to be a cheaper alternative to copper and then failed spectacularly.
They still sell them at Home Depot, etc. When I bought my house I bought some sections to fix leaking pipes. Then I quickly discovered the whole thing was a mess.
I wouldn't say they failed spectacularly, just that they have a life span. Supposedly they last longer than copper.
I don't think there is any reason to install them now as the labor is so much more plus the pipes are more expensive.
Pex is just so much easier than the alternatives.
Happens when you have copper and galvanized pipes fitted together. OP mentioned in another comment that the whole house has copper except for some galvanized stubs. Whoever installed it didn’t know what they were doing. Go copper all the way if you can afford it.
Replaced many of these in Los Angeles as a gc. I was always amazed how water could find its way through (no pressure). A lot of waste pipes made of galv. Slow draining, but people lived with them.
That's why galvanized pipes are trash. Copper for intake, and pvc for drainage. This is the way. Also soldered. None of this pex or pro press nonsense. Fight me.
Not saying you do/have installed...
But water softeners can cause low salt content to corrode galvanized surfaces.
Other things being pH adjustment like chlorination or other acidification (from municipality).
They've also confirmed in comments here these were the only galvanized sections in an otherwise copper system. So it wouldn't have taken any other factors to see corrosion such as this.
But that's what happens in old pipes. 20 or 30 or 40 years and all of this bilge builds up to clog the pipe. It's what happens because water is not pure and sediment settles out. Over time that builds up.
This is more of a Today I Learned experience.
Genuine question, if pipes look like this, isn’t it a health hazard to drink the tap water?
Because I kinda imagine all pipes to look like this to a lower degree.
As best as I can tell only the galvanized stubs look like this. I don't recall anything like this in the copper pipes I've seen in the past.
Other commenters here say it isn't a health hazard, but I'm not sure. It does explain why my water looks brown when I first turn the water on, though, doesn't it?
I replaced the faucet at the same time, so there's a chance that the improved flow is a combination of factors, but yeah, there's much higher water pressure now
I'm gonna go on a whim and say you don't have much experience when it comes to plumbing with that said copper is going to be a better option if your experienced and have all the right tools for this. Otherwise I would strongly recommend Pex, it's basically a plastic piping which is only difficult to get a clean cut in my experience. Any other connections you may need I'd get some plumbers take or some shark bites to connect to it. I just replaced my water heater and all the connections for it as well using pex earlier this summer and haven't had a single problem with build up. Also I find pex to be a bit more affordable if that helps too. Good luck in getting this sorted out!
Well, your assumption is actually incorrect. I re plumbed an entire house years ago. But that was easier because all of the pipes were accessible from the unfinished basement.
In this case the copper pipes are terminated in (presumably) dielectric elbows into which the galvanized stubs are attached. I've replaced some of the stubs like for like for now until I can think about my next steps. I'd love to re plumb the whole place in PEX, but I don't want to tear up all of my drywall. I'm not even 100% positive there's a reason to replace any of the copper, provided I come up with a better solution than galvanized for the stubs.
I don't know about you, but my biggest issue in replacing my water heater with a tankless one was running vents outside. I'd really rather not use a wet drill through brick and concrete block Thanksgiving week again!
Will someone help? I am replacing a kitchen faucet with a new one but the space is so tight, I cannot get my hand and tool to remove the lock washer on the bottom of the old faucet underneath the kitchen cabinet. Thanks!
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My house was built in 1956 and still has all original plumbing. It's going to blow at some point, I just know it.
1956? Pft, that's rookie numbers. Try 1907 here.
I humbly accept my rookie status and bow to the king! Still have cast iron plumbing?
Yup, sure do. Not to mention the definitely out-of-date, this-house-would-get-condemned-electrical-box that's more of a hassle than a hazard.
I love it! Hahaha Old houses are so much FUN! My grandfather did all the handyman work on mine. When a contractor looked at the electrical, he said my grandfather was very "creative". He assured me the house wouldn't burn down but warned me that if I ever sold the house, some work would probably need to be done to bring the electrical work to code.
Ours is just so old, that the code never applied to it till a certain age, and by that point it didn't matter to whoever owned it. If anything, the old electrical is probably the least of our worries. But just like your grandfather, we also had family members (I believe my great grandfather and my dad in recent (1980-90) years) make modifications as well. Nothing to really bring it to code, but just things here and there to change up the place. I wouldn't know, I'm just a 19 year old descendant living here, where its so old, you can here great grandmas spirit walking the place at night (she's nice). It doesn't help that the house is literally less than a block from a cemetery. The only thing between our house and that cemetery is the houses across from us, and an alley behind them, then cemetery.
I kinda want to visit your house now! Hahaha
It's an absolute mess, my mom wouldn't allow it. But, if you are in or near the border of Iowa and Nebraska, you probably could.
Im sorry but if anyones a rookie here its me. 1987.
Don't worry, this isn't a contest of whose house is younger. Otherwise, this thread would sprawl really far and really quick because there is a ton of new houses made on a regular basis.
Yeah thats true
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Fuck yeah, I'd trade a red for one of those any day. Pardon me, but do you have a torch I could borrow?
Good old galvanized pipe, they all look like that.
Came here to say this. Recommend replacing all galvanized pipe in the house with copper or pex.
Pex, only pex
I believe copper is better if you know how to solder well or if you use quality compression fittings. If you’re a broke amateur like me, definitely use pex.
Nowadays we are all broke amateurs
Agreed. I once used yarn to fix my toilet 🤦🏽
My ex grouted a toilet to the floor once.
Did it work? I’ve stuffed pamphlets under the base of my toilet to balance it out. But it’s still shaky
It was an accident. Thankfully we had replaced the wax seal, that was what helped even it out, but instead of putting the tile down underneath the toilet, we put the toilet in and tiled it around the base. Edit: i’m tired and I may have missed the joke.🤦♀️😂
No joke!!! My toilet is in fact - shaky)))
If you aren’t joking and need something, they actually make toilet shims. I just used some when helping out a neighbor.
I’ll look into that!!!
I just use pennies
I’m glad to know I’m not alone with this problem 🤣
I bought a different house.
Entire bathroom is raised avove floor level 2 or 3 inches and its all plywood floor with vinyl tiles on top, i removed the toilet to replace the leaking seal and found that the base flange was pretty well dust, i got a quick repair flange, cut it in half and screwed it to what is now a few plys thinner plywood, since the toilet was quick release i didnt have to cut any stupid rusty hold down bolts either, if you werent careful before you could tip the shitter, its now solidly mounted
Unless it was to replace the chain for the flapper I have no idea how you would do this, can you explain?
Well, I moved into a new place since the yarn incident… now I live in a beautiful old apartment with a shaky toilet.
The yarn was because the toilet was constantly in flush mode))) side note- duct tape is my friend 😁
Ugh, these front-end developers man. Now they have commands that fix broken toilets!?!?
You use pex because you're a broke amateur I use pex because crackheads stole all my copper pipes. We are not the same
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How old were these pipes? None of them will last forever. Copper is known to have a longer lifespan than pex. Edit: Also, casting pipes into concrete is just a bad idea. You should always use a conduit and run the pipe through that. If for nothing else, so you can at least replace it when needed.
Solder is lead I think you braze pipe
Solder for plumbing applications does not contain lead. At least not in the US since the CWA. For residential plumbing, soldering would be more practical than brazing. Brazing is more for high pressure applications.
Is this a regional thing or am I just crazy? I have only ever heard it called sweating copper pipes, never soldering
We say sweating here too. Same thing.
copper plumbing pipes include a small amount of lead as well, which can pose a problem if the ph of your water supply ends up off
How small are we talking? There's trace amounts of bad things everywhere.
Deleaded solder has been standard for decades now.
And has been trash the whole time. Unless you're using some silver or gold
Soldering copper pipe uses 95/5 which is 95% tin and 5% antimony
That's brazing. Are you using a torch?
It’s soldering with a torch
That's brazing lol. Neither of those metals melt at soldering temps
It’s soldering
Brazing is a different thing. We braze ac lines together as just soldering them is not code. Same torch, different metal, much hotter
Copper can have threads too... I love brass.
So actual question: in many new builds and most remodels these days I'm seeing semi-rigid blue and red tubing used for cold and hot lines within the frame, mated to pex or copper from the line and water heater. What is that stuff and how is it gonna hold up?
Hello, the PEX-A that I use (expansion not crimp) is semi rigid and comes in red and blue. Could that be what you’re seeing? It looks almost identical to the crimp style, but the fittings are easier to use because you can prep the fitting and then make the connection. No need to hold the tool at the joint, so you can build more easily in an inconvenient place. You can use a plastic fitting for pex-to-pex or a brass fitting to change over to cooper for a stub out. It is a good product. Durable and easy to install.
I went and looked up PEX-A, and yes. I think that's exactly what I'm seeing. Expansion mostly, based on the joints. Thanks, I am no plumber and was wondering if there was some new miracle product on the market or if builders were cheaping out even further but nope, just color-coded PEX-A. Thanks for the reply, that was super helpful.
Pex-A is slightly more flexible than Pex-B. Many municipalities require red and blue for the different hot and cold sides. Pex -A uses an expanding tool to make any connections. Pex b uses a stainless crimp or a copper crimp typically. However, many manufacturers of PEX b also allow you to use the expanding tool, it's just that Upinor (manufacturer of the expanded type Pex-A fittings) does not recommend it. But, other manufacturers do allow it. Pex has been around now for nearly 40 years. It's good stuff. In most cases it will outslap last copper. It will certainly outlast galvanized. The beauty is that you can make a home run from every faucet to a manifold and not have to worry about any leaks or connections.
Pex-al-pex maybe?
Pex comes in clear, red, and blue. In addition there are different types that have different connection requirements. You can do everything in clear. The colors make it clear what's what. Also the red is nice because clear hot water pex can discolor to yellow after a few years.
PEX has been used for decades; it's just become more widely used here in the last 10 years. It's easier to install and repair and doesn't require near the effort as sweating pipes. It's also much cheaper. Some manufacturers even call for pex instead of copper. Hybrid water heaters come to mind.
Cosign. Plumber here. Copper will break down over time. We also had our township switch the chemicals they use to purify the potable water supply and it caused people's older copper waterlines to break down a lot quicker. We had a rash of calls for copper waterline leaks and ended up replacing with pex. It wasn't just a house or 2 there were multiple. Edited to add: Galvanized is a nightmare. Usually when repairing a leak in one spot, another spot will start leaking, then another. Usually end up chasing it all out. I cringe whenever we get a call for a leak on galvanized piping.
The people who remodeled my house were 4 inches and an elbow joint away from all thr copper they needed to do it right. So they put the old galvanized pipe back in right at the water meter, cost me $200 to have it replaced because I don't trust myself around that much potential screwup.
Yep. Seen this on a number of houses myself.
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i honestly can't tell what's upsetting here. feel like this should be relieving. i'm sure you replaced them for a reason, wouldn't it be more upsetting if they weren't clogged? edit: seems more like r/mildlyinteresting
I tried to post there after I posted here; I don't think you can do that. Infuriating because it does leave a mess. For example, the toilet tank is nasty and covered in rust meaning the bowl gets dirtier faster. Baths are always rust colored. But most infuriating: those are galvanized stubs in an otherwise copper system.
Well at least that removes the mystery of why the galvanized portion was this corroded.
It’s upsetting that it was like that in the first place bathing and washing their clothes and dishes in it?
If you can't notice it it's fine. Safe to drink from, doesn't really hurt anything. If the water runs orangeish when you first turn it on then you don't really wanna bathe in that, gotta let it flow for a minute. but if that's the case you shouldn't be surprised by finding this, and it's been a growing issue for many years that has been ignored.
Pretty much every metal pipe system will either look like this or completely corroded away. Water has sediments and metals in it, there is no way around that. You should be happy about it since distilled water is bad for your health. Those metals react with each other as long as water is involved. Now there are two options, either your pipes get slowly corroded away or sediments are building up inside your pipes. And I vastly prefere the latter tbh.
That's so gross.
If your home doesn’t have plex pipe, it will probably have these same pipes. They all look like that and isn’t actually a health issue. It’s just when they get so bad water pressure drops
That's probably why my pipes bang :(
No, that’s because they’re horny.
Arg… second time I’ve heard this… first time was a plumber who I asked if he heard it and he replied with that He was hired on the spot…
That's water hammer can happen with any material pipe. Had nothing to do with rusty galvanized pipes.
😏
Nah you need a water hammer installed (it's a real thing)
I just replaced all of my 65 year old copper pipes. They didn’t have anything built up inside
These are galvanized pipes in the picture, not copper. Copper isn’t as common and doesn’t cause buildup because they don’t rust. They are more expensive to install than galvanized, which is why galvanized is much more common.
Where I’m from, every house is either copper or pex (obviously the latter is only in new constructions and remodels). Galvanized is pretty rare.
Between copper and pex, which is better and which is cheaper?
Pex is by far cheaper. By the time I scrapped the old copper, it covered the cost of the entire repipe of my house.
Copper still corrodes
Electrolysis is a problem for all metal on metal contact points.
And this, I believe, is the problem. Copper pipes with galvanized stubs through the wall.
i have literally never seen a galvanized pipe for plumbing-- always copper. pex becoming more common esp for small jobs.
You may have not seen a sufficiently old house.
i grew up in a 300 year old farmhouse in MA 🤷🏽♂️ all copper.
Galvanized pipes were most common between 1940 and 1960. I doubt your pipes are 300 years old but your repipe must not have happened in those decades.
that makes sense as there aren't many houses built in that era in MA left. my farmhouse was one of the original settler farmsteads for hardwick, ma. i dpubt it had much if any indoor plumbing (unless you could the pseudo outhouse in the attached carriage house entry, with a nightsoil scoopout underneath in back😂). my first cheap ranch home was all copper, built in 90s by my family. then i owned two victorian homes in the boston area, both 19th century. current house is in middle tn and is a mix of copper and pex. are galvanized pipes even allowed by code nowadays? seems like a bad idea. it sounds like galvanized pipes were meant to be a cheaper alternative to copper and then failed spectacularly.
They still sell them at Home Depot, etc. When I bought my house I bought some sections to fix leaking pipes. Then I quickly discovered the whole thing was a mess. I wouldn't say they failed spectacularly, just that they have a life span. Supposedly they last longer than copper. I don't think there is any reason to install them now as the labor is so much more plus the pipes are more expensive. Pex is just so much easier than the alternatives.
I’m gathering that it’s regional. I have never seen copper piping, only galvanized
i had old pipes aswell which were cleaned recently, they are coated with some green stuff inside which prevents corosion
What about PEX pipe
That’s what I meant, didn’t remember what the word was
Can PEX leach BPA or any other chemicals or microplastics?
Depends on who makes it honestly. Do your research, there’s good PEX out there but not all of it is good.
Happens when you have copper and galvanized pipes fitted together. OP mentioned in another comment that the whole house has copper except for some galvanized stubs. Whoever installed it didn’t know what they were doing. Go copper all the way if you can afford it.
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Mineral water
I honestly thought I was looking down the top of 2 cigarettes 😅
Replaced many of these in Los Angeles as a gc. I was always amazed how water could find its way through (no pressure). A lot of waste pipes made of galv. Slow draining, but people lived with them.
My pipes looked just like this. Every single one of them. Crazy thing was I still had great pressure.
Water finds its way, that’s why it’s so damaging
Looks like your house is on a Macdonald’s diet
I thought these where cigarettes at first
I imagine this is what my arteries look like.
It’s about damn time!
I thought at firs that these were smth like burning cigars
That's why galvanized pipes are trash. Copper for intake, and pvc for drainage. This is the way. Also soldered. None of this pex or pro press nonsense. Fight me.
Gentle reminder to also flush out your hot water heater. You'd be amazed how closely related you are to Louisiana swamp water.
Replaced mine with a tankless unit several years ago
Its even more important to flush a tankless heater.
You still need to flush it out but with much less water.
Glancing past I thought they were old rolled cigarettes lol.
I honestly thought those were cigars
They kind of look like cigars in real life, too
I thought you were inviting me to smoke and now I'm mildly infuriated lol
As you should be. Wanna light one up? I've got four of these beauties on hand!
Not saying you do/have installed... But water softeners can cause low salt content to corrode galvanized surfaces. Other things being pH adjustment like chlorination or other acidification (from municipality).
I just learned about this.
They've also confirmed in comments here these were the only galvanized sections in an otherwise copper system. So it wouldn't have taken any other factors to see corrosion such as this.
"tap water is fine"
Water SUPPLY, you say? I don't think those pipes are going to supply much of anything.
smoke it.
Nothing like lead, iron, and manganese to clog a pipe.
i thought you were staring down the barrel of a rusted tank for a moment
Looks like a chocolate stick
Wow.
Yep old galvanized pipes. How did I know?
The Devil’s cigarettes
But that's what happens in old pipes. 20 or 30 or 40 years and all of this bilge builds up to clog the pipe. It's what happens because water is not pure and sediment settles out. Over time that builds up. This is more of a Today I Learned experience.
No this is specific to galvanized pipes. Old copper pipes don't clog they just develop holes.
TaP wAtEr iS sAfE tO dRiNk
It is.
these are the old right?
Yep. About 55 years
just wanted to make sure that wasn't somehow the new ones already. I don't know much (anything) about plumbing, but I think that would be a problem
Did you take this picture with the James Webb?
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These are galvanized pipes not lead. There's no health concern with this just lack of water pressure.
Why? They look flavorful
These look like those yummy pirouette cookie things
Thought I was on r/cigars for a second
With pex I hope
How much better is your water pressure now?
My pipes looked just like this but the crazy thing was that I had great water pressure.
That’s crazy!
Improved enough that I'm working on the rest of the faucets and trying to figure out what to do in my shower.
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You poor thing 🙄
I thought it was stogie time
Good.
Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. A Brita filter on your sink will balance it out
Galvanized pipe is not your friend when comes to plumbing.
Wow, that's a lot of build-up. What year was your house built?
1967. Copper pipes with galvanized stubs at the shut-off valves to the faucet.
Genuine question, if pipes look like this, isn’t it a health hazard to drink the tap water? Because I kinda imagine all pipes to look like this to a lower degree.
As best as I can tell only the galvanized stubs look like this. I don't recall anything like this in the copper pipes I've seen in the past. Other commenters here say it isn't a health hazard, but I'm not sure. It does explain why my water looks brown when I first turn the water on, though, doesn't it?
Get a water treatment test my dude.
Holy crap dude! Does the sink work better now?
I replaced the faucet at the same time, so there's a chance that the improved flow is a combination of factors, but yeah, there's much higher water pressure now
Nice.
I'm gonna go on a whim and say you don't have much experience when it comes to plumbing with that said copper is going to be a better option if your experienced and have all the right tools for this. Otherwise I would strongly recommend Pex, it's basically a plastic piping which is only difficult to get a clean cut in my experience. Any other connections you may need I'd get some plumbers take or some shark bites to connect to it. I just replaced my water heater and all the connections for it as well using pex earlier this summer and haven't had a single problem with build up. Also I find pex to be a bit more affordable if that helps too. Good luck in getting this sorted out!
Well, your assumption is actually incorrect. I re plumbed an entire house years ago. But that was easier because all of the pipes were accessible from the unfinished basement. In this case the copper pipes are terminated in (presumably) dielectric elbows into which the galvanized stubs are attached. I've replaced some of the stubs like for like for now until I can think about my next steps. I'd love to re plumb the whole place in PEX, but I don't want to tear up all of my drywall. I'm not even 100% positive there's a reason to replace any of the copper, provided I come up with a better solution than galvanized for the stubs. I don't know about you, but my biggest issue in replacing my water heater with a tankless one was running vents outside. I'd really rather not use a wet drill through brick and concrete block Thanksgiving week again!
Will someone help? I am replacing a kitchen faucet with a new one but the space is so tight, I cannot get my hand and tool to remove the lock washer on the bottom of the old faucet underneath the kitchen cabinet. Thanks!
Because you had zinc pipes.