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Default Capping hot water pipe

Set Square wrote:

By far the best thing would be to replace the tee with an elbow. Otherwise
you will have some air trapped in the dead leg which may cause water hammer.


Is that right? Never done it myself, but I always thought that
*introducing* a dead leg containing air was a *cure* for water hammer
(due to the compressibility of the air acting as a cushion against
oscillations in the water?

David