Daavewaard
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Yesterday I was squirming around in my tight crawl space and I needed to solder caps on two nearby 1/2" copper tubing ends. Despite opening lots of faucets and such, water continued to drip form both openings. And drip, and drip. I searched online for the easy fix and found that the most often mentioned is the bread solution. Is this one of those truisms...that wherever one opens a copper line it is guaranteed to be a lowpoint?
Stepping back for a moment, I wonder that for my dream house, whether there is a way to design in some way to run new copper lines under my new house with servicing the pipes in mind. Yes, I know, they shouldn't need service...but has anyone ever added shutoff valves, for example, to allow work on one bathroom, for example, while the rest of the house was functioning normally? No, this doesn't correct the drip, drip, drip issue, but at least I can eat dinner while I wait for the water to drain out. Thanks!!
Stepping back for a moment, I wonder that for my dream house, whether there is a way to design in some way to run new copper lines under my new house with servicing the pipes in mind. Yes, I know, they shouldn't need service...but has anyone ever added shutoff valves, for example, to allow work on one bathroom, for example, while the rest of the house was functioning normally? No, this doesn't correct the drip, drip, drip issue, but at least I can eat dinner while I wait for the water to drain out. Thanks!!