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Yeah these homes were all built at the same time by the same builders. So I doubt they were using different grades of copper across them.

The ones in our house are all type L

Can confirm just got a thread notification email for the first time in years. Thanks so much!

These houses were built 35 years ago. No recirculating lines in them. Sediment from the water heater was my thought too.

My neighbors told me that they recently discovered that their hot water pipes in the basement, which were covered with foam insulation, had pinhole leaks. They had plumbers come out and replace both their hot and cold water pipes in the basement with PEX. They didn’t touch any of the piping in...

Digging up this decade-old thread as it's the second result on Google for Nibco vs. Elkhart. SupplyHouse.com seems to only stock the latter. HD in my area stocks their Everbilt brand with NIBCO parts. Ferguson is mostly a Nibco shop. SH prices are quite a bit lower than both. Some of the...

What do you guys think of that joint?

Propane blue torch

Probably just too much flux. I’m just doing a thin layer on the pipe and fitting, but after putting them together, I guess I should wipe off the excess? In terms of width of flux on the pipe, I should be doing less than the width of the fitting?

Yep I’m using the tinning flux for both water and oil based. The water one burns up real fast. No idea what Oatey says about it being good up to 700 degrees, pretty sure all of it burns up shortly after you reach the melting point of the solder.

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That picture was taken after a good amount of sanding with 150. Was just trying to figure out whether I needed to keep going. When I initially took the fitting off, both fitting and pipe were completely silver. Reach4 had the right idea though. Fitting won’t go on at the moment so I guess I’ll...

Just practicing for now. Could not get the solder to melt with water soluble flux. Tried the petroleum based one and decided to screw it and keep heating until the solder melted. Lo and behold, turned out great. Now I want to try again with the water soluble stuff so I can comply with code...

Welcome, we discussed this a few weeks ago here https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/adding-utility-sink-to-laundry-standpipe.105564/ Per DCA consult, since the standpipe does not appear to be vented, you cannot add a sink to it as-is because current codes do not allow unvented...

What about a dry lubricant like https://amzn.to/452c3Sp?

I did my own panel upgrade to 200A and they didn’t test any of those things either. I’m not sure who does? This isn’t in the middle of nowhere, it’s Philly/NYC suburbs. I’m not sure why you care about “them”. Are you okay dumping toxic sludge into the environment without any treatment?

I haven’t had a need to upload but posting replies was taking a very long time and the initial load failed to serve up CSS properly.

Looks like things are acting up again @Taylor Love

Some of my inspectors aren’t great. Frankly the state compliance hotline has been a million times more helpful (that’s a thing we have here). Wayne, could I ask you to make me a diagram matching what I described? I’m not good at these things…

Yes the 90° would be to take the pipe away from the wall toward the interior of the room.