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You forgot to mention what should I look after in the water quality test. What chemical causing this pinholes?
This is good info to know as our old house has the old galvanized lines in it that will need to be replaced as I know some have rust inside them because I have to clean rust out the aerator on the bathroom sink a number of times per year.
2:54 Funny how the hot water heaters are in the back ground.
bull sheet , flux get diluted heavily not spotty,
so our water that comes out of the faucet sits in that nasty rusty crusty tank?? there's no way. there has to be a better way
Use non metallic tank water heaters. Problem solved. Costs s little more but never goes bad.
3:31 "under a high powered microscope". Really? A high powered one?
As always, learned something.
There are studies coming out now that dispute the initial stated lifespan of copper pipes (50-70 or even 90 years) and downgrading their expected useful life as low as 10 years due to changing water chemistry standards from the EPA. I think the original engineered specs of copper is only 20 years (not 50-70 like suppliers claim) and with the majority of copper lines being installed in the last 35-40 years they're going to start failing en masse. Some will say copper is linked to neurological diseases as well as cancer if found in higher amounts than the body can naturally expel.
I've heard of concerns with aluminum anode rods as well, aluminum being seen as a culprit in Alzheimer disease.
I'm a plumber not a doctor, researcher, or a material scientist so I don't know what to think of all this myself.
Keven is the best thing that ever happen to this show .