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> aside from requiring more skill to work with This is an understatement. This would essentially kill off plumbing as a DIY task and be a huge boon for profess
by legitster 3y ago
> aside from requiring more skill to work with
This is an understatement. This would essentially kill off plumbing as a DIY task and be a huge boon for professional plumbers.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoCopper is perfectly viable for interior small diameter pipe. Home owners aren't typically DIYing a cast iron main sewer.
- mentalpiracy 3y agoCopper piping is unfortunately several orders of magnitude more susceptible to corrosion from a variety of sources: water acidity, high temperatures, and exposure to common household chemicals like bleach and drain cleaner.
- amluto 3y agoAlso CO2. Boiler condensate will eat copper pipe very quickly. And some well water and reverse-osmosis-filtered water is not so friendly to copper.
- systems_glitch 3y agoRemember that most cast iron isn't like it was for hundreds of years, nowadays there's no-hub and even if you do need to use hub and spigot, lots of folks use the neoprene bushing instead of oakum...and if you're still using oakum, you can usually use a modern sealant that comes in a caulk tube, instead of molten lead.