FlynHokie
New Member
I am remodeling the master bath. I have a shower pan installed, and will be installing tile walls. I am rerouting the hot and cold lines running to my new shower valve. The old lines don't match the new valve inputs, so I have to reroute them.
Question #1 - 45 & 90 deg joints I'm assuming decrease water pressure. Is there a limit to the number of joints I should add?
Question #2 - I have tried multiple times to sweat a 90 on the cold pipe inlet, but I can't get the solder to sweat into the joint. It just beads ontop of the joint, and rolls off. I have sweated copper joints before, and not run into this issue. The pipe was cleaned real good, fluxed real good too. I heated the pipe w/ the torch, until the solder melts when you touch it to the joint, but it just beads up and doesn't seep into the joint.
Are there any tricks to get the solder to sweat. Just to make sure I was doing things correctly, I tried to sweat the joint to a copper pipe I had removed from the shower, and it went on fine. I just cant get it to sweat on the inlet pipe that I already have installed...
Thanks much,
FlynHokie.
Question #1 - 45 & 90 deg joints I'm assuming decrease water pressure. Is there a limit to the number of joints I should add?
Question #2 - I have tried multiple times to sweat a 90 on the cold pipe inlet, but I can't get the solder to sweat into the joint. It just beads ontop of the joint, and rolls off. I have sweated copper joints before, and not run into this issue. The pipe was cleaned real good, fluxed real good too. I heated the pipe w/ the torch, until the solder melts when you touch it to the joint, but it just beads up and doesn't seep into the joint.
Are there any tricks to get the solder to sweat. Just to make sure I was doing things correctly, I tried to sweat the joint to a copper pipe I had removed from the shower, and it went on fine. I just cant get it to sweat on the inlet pipe that I already have installed...
Thanks much,
FlynHokie.