On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:13:54 -0600, philo wrote:



In my situation I replaced a section of galvanized between two copper
runs. It had multiple leaks. It's on the unfinished basement ceiling and
no chance of anything disturbing it. If anything would go wrong though
it's above the basement drain and all that might get wet is the wash tubs.

I guess that's fairly safe as long as the sharkbites are not stuck
against any wood, but if you do have a pipe come apart your water bill
could be huge. That galv pipe probably sprung leaks because of the
dielectric corrosion between the copper. Sometime when you got nothing
else to do, solder in that new piece of copper and do it right. Sounds
like you only need to solder in two couplers. Thats simple when it's
right out in the open.

I just helped a friend replace all his pipes. It's an old victorian
house and it had sections of steel pipe, rigid copper pipe, soft copper
tubing, PVC, and CPVC. All mixed up. There was around 170 ft of pipe,
but he only needed about 80 ft. It went across the basement and came
back again. There were spots that looked like they had moved the water
heater at least 3 times, and two washmachine hookups. The pipe to the
outdoor spigot was cut off and plugged. There were at least 5 places
dripping when I first saw it, one filled a 5 gallon pail every day.
Another spot had rolls of electrical tape around the pipe, and he had
just clamped a piece of rubber around another spot that was shooting
water across the basement.

I took one look at it and said "lets rip it all out and start over".
That made him nervous, but he soon learned that was the easiest way. I
took a sawsall and cut that old **** in pieces and got rid of it. He
wanted CPVC, so thats what we used. By the end of the day it was all
connected except the bathtub because he wants to change to a shower. We
just put some shutoffs there. and also put a shutoff for an outdoor
spigot, because it was too cold outside to install that spigot. What a
huge difference that made. His water pressure doubled, and you no longer
got a bath walking thru his basement from dripping pipes.