On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:29:06 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ed Sirett wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:17:24 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ed Sirett wrote:


Imperial copper tube is fairly rare IME.

???

It's something to watch out for when you think the pipework is around
35-40 years old. I might come across it a few times a year and I'm
dealing with pipes at least 2 days a week.

Well I suppose that I may be atypical - but I've had it in both houses which
I've owned, and in my father-in-law's house - all built in the 1960's. So I
suspect that there's still a lot of it about even if you don't personally
encounter it very often.

There is very little late 1960's early 1970s new build around here.
I therefore probably only encounter it in places that had substantial work
done in that period.


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