Modrob
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Recently we’ve had some episodes of rusty water, mainly in toilets, but it would clear up in a day or so. This week, almost suddenly, it has started with a vengeance and not letting up. I’ve tried best I can to track down the source but the plumbing in her home is perplexing...(her late husband was a very creative DIYer—the house started as a single wide mobile home, and over the years he added on more structures and a full, sectioned basement) so we’re trying to make sense of a lot of it...
Best I can tell, the utility-furnished supply is brought in under the trailer part, under a bath sink, with a large valve and hose-clamped onto a black hose pipe, about 1 1/4” or so. Then, it’s adapted down to leave the valve using 3/8” copper tubing into some tees and c/o valves to feed the rest of the rooms. This has been over the course of years from about 1981 to about 2015...
I have many pics of the setup and there looks to be a lot of corrosion on some surfaces and I’m thinking the rusting is something breaking down in one of these pieces. I’ve flushed lines and isolated things to try and narrow down but afraid to try and turn nuts for fear of catastrophic trouble and being without water until I can replace it all. (Honestly I’d love to pull the sink right now, tear it all out and redo it, but want some further insight) I wouldn’t think any of the metals are dissimilar but...something is coming undone, and it’s some ugly brown-orange rust...(it’s not the utility—it’s in the home...washing machine and outdoor hose were plumbed in before the rest of the stuff, and no problems with them)
Thanks for any discussion.
(Replacing the whole house system is just not an option now)