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Plumbing–Replacing Galvanized Pipe

by on Jan 6, 2007

Hi,

Wanted to tell you what I have done this week.  I am starting the renovations for my house, which I affectionately call my “Foreclosed Palace” (colonial revival cape cod, I think.  The former owner was a crackhead carnie.  His loss, my gain, I guess.

I replaced the original galvanized piping to the 2nd floor bath w/ plastic.  I do not sweat solder copper pipe. Well, I can do it but I don;t trust my soldering, unless I might be making a sprinkler system. 🙂

I filled the pipes w/ water today, crossed my fingers and no leaks!!  I suppose it could be easy to forget to glue a fitting somewhere.

1st pic…why one doesn’t use galvanized pipe much nowadays. I wondered why it didn;t drain well and I could not get a plumbing snake thru it.

 Before Photo (I posted this at a professional plumbers website and several said it looked so bad it scared them…the before shot):

Before...thru kitchen ceiling to 2nd floor bath

I crashed…………….(I really need to replace that temporary light fixture.  Especially since I am an electrician, huh!

After:

After

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