My father-in-law has old galvanized pipe. It’s totally corroded. How does that happen? Anyway, he got a quote to have all his water pipes replaced with pvc. My initial thought was copper is better. Checked w/ an old-hand I trust and he said the same. Thoughts? Thanks.
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This Q comes up for arguement every 5-6 weeks.
Plumbers here refuse to use CPVC for supply lines. That is also the concensus of most respondents here. My experience around it on demo in remo jobs is that once it is 15 years old or so, all you need to do is touch it and it will shatter.
There are a couple grades of copper too though. We have hich mineral in our water and some copper can develope pinhole leaks in only ten years.
The third option that has now won everyone over is PEX, which is easier to run in a replacement like this without tearing open as many walls and floors or cielings. I think it stands for cross linked polyethelene tubing. It is also more freeze stable than copper or CPVC
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