AlbertKarel
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HELP!!
A VERY expensive job can be avoided if only a smart
and generous member can tell me how my plumber can
cap a badly corroded galvanized main residential
water supply pipe.
Here's the story. We have a corroded main supply
pipe. This problem arose many years ago. The plumber
then tapped in a new supply pipe for most of the
house, but he left some sections of the house attached
to the old pipe. Now it needs to be abandoned.
We can tap into the newer supply pipe to
supply the parts of the house now served by the old
corroded pipe. BUT MY PLUMBER CAN'T FIGURE OUT how to cap the old pipe
without going all the way back to the City meter...a task
clogged with later poured CONCRETE!!
I can clearly see that the old pipe is too screwed up to
cut and thread. Is there any other way of capping it off?
My wife, perhaps brilliantly, perhaps not, says PLUG IT WITH
EPOXY......hmmmm.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Al
Santa Monica
A VERY expensive job can be avoided if only a smart
and generous member can tell me how my plumber can
cap a badly corroded galvanized main residential
water supply pipe.
Here's the story. We have a corroded main supply
pipe. This problem arose many years ago. The plumber
then tapped in a new supply pipe for most of the
house, but he left some sections of the house attached
to the old pipe. Now it needs to be abandoned.
We can tap into the newer supply pipe to
supply the parts of the house now served by the old
corroded pipe. BUT MY PLUMBER CAN'T FIGURE OUT how to cap the old pipe
without going all the way back to the City meter...a task
clogged with later poured CONCRETE!!
I can clearly see that the old pipe is too screwed up to
cut and thread. Is there any other way of capping it off?
My wife, perhaps brilliantly, perhaps not, says PLUG IT WITH
EPOXY......hmmmm.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Al
Santa Monica