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Yeah hot water can leach metals from the pipes that you really don't want to be drinking. This could either just taste bad, or add unhealthy amounts of lead an
by bpodgursky 4y ago
Yeah hot water can leach metals from the pipes that you really don't want to be drinking. This could either just taste bad, or add unhealthy amounts of lead and copper.
I would not use this plumber.
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- rootusrootus 4y agoWe are fast approaching a time when all houses have pex. At this point we've been using it in new construction for decades, and most houses with original galvanized pipes are either already replaced with pex, or getting really close.
- bpodgursky 4y agoI'll be honest, I also am not enthusiastic about drinking the volatile organics that hot water leaches out of polyethylene piping.
- checkyoursudo 4y agoGive me copper or give me death.
- throwaway742 4y agoI think you are vastly underestimating the age of the average house.