[TheForge] OT frozen pipes

[Peter Hirst]

What's eating your copper is acidic water:  can be treated with a filter 
tank.  A little pricey, but sometjhimes you can pick them up cheap to free 
from people switching over to municipal water from a well.  except for 
slight acid (my copper is just beginning to develop pinholes after 35 years) 
my well water is the best, and i wouldn't trade it for anything.  So I 
picked up a filter and will replace the copper piece by piece with good 
solid used stuff as I acquire it.  It will last a lifetime with the filter, 
and since I have so much exposed plumbing in the house, it is well worth it 
to me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT frozen pipes


> Andy,
>
> How does copper work in your area?  I was always a fan of copper until we 
> moved here to Brasstown, NC.  With most of the well water in this area, it 
> eats copper -- so any of the plastics are better.  Dad had the same 
> problem when they moved to Boulder, CO.  Just check around before you go 
> to copper. The well drillers here are the ones that told me to stay away 
> from copper --  most of the hardware stores here don't even carry it any 
> more.  (and I had lots of copper fittings on hand when I built this 
> house.)
>
> Dave
>
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> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:21 AM
> To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List 
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT frozen pipes
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>> Sharkbite fittings are, as you say, pricey, but they really do work.  My 
>> plan for this house is to replace all the lousy PVC lines with copper and 
>> sharkbite fittings.  Those fittings will also work with PVC and any other 
>> rigid or semi-rigid tubing.  Very ingeniously contrived, BTW.
>>
>> Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>>> The Monday before Christmas we had the temps drop below zero with high 
>>> winds out of the West.  As a result, the pipes that run to our laundry 
>>> froze and burst.  That section of the house is just a crawl space, so 
>>> instead of opening up the hatch to gain access which would have really 
>>> flooded the space with cold air, I decided to disconnect and cap that 
>>> section at the source.  I got the Hot line capped ok, but the shut off 
>>> valve did not stop the flow completly and let a steady drip through to 
>>> the cold line. Because of the dampness, I couldn't get the joint to take 
>>> solder, so I decided to use a compression fitting.  At the local farm 
>>> store they didn't have any compression fittings, but they had something 
>>> called SharkBite. It was a bit pricey but what option did I have?  So I 
>>> got it.  To my amazment, it worked as advertised, just clean the end and 
>>> slide the fitting on and you are done. So if you have to make an 
>>> emergency repair, the SharkBite connectors are a good choice.
>>>
>>> Robert Ehrenberger
>>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>>
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