Ace Hardware

   / Ace Hardware #31  
Our new house is copper mains with PEX runners.... it's just got to last to the next husband.
lol... it's a shame that's how we come to view things, eventually. But I'm much the same.

I did actually have an unexplained pin hole in a 1/2" soft coiled copper line running up to our 2nd floor laundry, just this summer. Bizarre, as it was in the middle of the line, no fittings or anything near the pin hole. Hopefully it's not a precursor of things to come.

A house my mother sold in the early 2000's had one lead pipe, as an un-metered secondary main from the city. It fed only her outside spigots, and since it was unmetered, no one dared to draw any attention to it. The water department in that town was formed in the early 1850's, so I suspect that lead pipe was original to the house, when it was built in the 1860's. Likely the rest of the house was moved over to a new metered and "un-leaded" main in the 1950's or 1960's, and only the outside spigots were left on the old main. Point is, whatever the age, it was still operational and without any flow or leakage issues.
 
   / Ace Hardware #32  
My son's 1922 duplex had lead water line feeders coming from the street. Milwaukee has been slowly replacing them by neighborhood. His started leaking this year right at the basement floor (multiple pin holes) so he got bumped to the top of the list. Glad they are gone.
 
   / Ace Hardware #33  
Here is the day our water main tap broke (on the City side of the meter, thankfully). This has actually happened twice in the 18 years we've lived here. This has happened a lot in our neighborhood, so the City has now dialed back the pressure on that main so much, you can barely run a small lawn sprinkler. Oops, sorry, I don't think this had anything to do with Ace Hardware. Carry on.
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   / Ace Hardware #34  
Longevity of copper fittings may be fine where you live. Out here in some locations the naturally occurring chemicals in the well water will eat up copper in no time.
Wow, what does the water do to your stomach?
 

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