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Re: what do do if ground wire is nowhere to be found? said by nunya:Really. It seems like the closer you get the equator, the plumbing becomes anything that will hold water. I noticed cobbled together garden hose seemed to be "material of choice" for the "water main" in some South American regions.
It makes you appreciate how good we have it here.
They use PVC and galvanized iron pipe. Copper pipe is more of a developed country thing due to cost. |
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 alkizmo
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kudos:1 | said by fifty nine: Copper pipe is more of a developed country thing due to cost.
And it's slowly going away as well. |
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 MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
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said by fifty nine:They use PVC and galvanized iron pipe. Copper pipe is more of a developed country thing due to cost.
I've still got the original galvanized iron pipes in my house from 1916. From my water meter to the galvanized pipe I've had two leaks and replaced two 1ft sections with new pipe both times. I'm hoping this one will last more than a year. Then I had another on the mains cities side of the shutoff valve four years before the meter install, so did my neighbor a few houses down. 6mo after that in the dead of winter my nextdoor neighbor had it happen. Where the copper pipes started going. They did the same a block over last year, and went from galvanized to copper, and it's starting to happen there too. The bloody water here is so hard it's stupid(lime capital of the world just down the road), it eats the copper pipe for breakfast.
Copper is nice and all. But for some places, it's just too soft especially if they're not treating it to reduce the hardness before it goes out. |
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 UHFAll static, all day, ForeverPremium,MVM
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| said by Mashiki:From my water meter to the galvanized pipe I've had two leaks and replaced two 1ft sections with new pipe both times.
So, you have both copper and galvanized? That's why you have leaks. Put in a dielectric union or the galvanic action will eat away the copper. |
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MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
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| said by UHF:So, you have both copper and galvanized? That's why you have leaks. Put in a dielectric union or the galvanic action will eat away the copper. There is one, I just didn't say so. I'm using a brass union between the two. The flow path though is copper to galvanized. But that's not why there are leaks, the water is just that hard with a base PH of around 7.7, the lowest I've ever seen it here is around 7.5 |
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 KenPremium,MVM
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Markle, IN | said by Mashiki:the water is just that hard with a base PH of around 7.7, the lowest I've ever seen it here is around 7.5
I don't think a PH of 7.5 or even 7.7 would by itself be the cause of any problems. |
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| It would increase slightly the rate of scale build-up. But probably not significantly as to cause problems in the short term. |
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