SylvanLMP
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Originally posted by Nick Hydro:
If yu want to keep it cheep, you can put in plastic yorself, the noise ain’t that bad, jus turn up the TV.
Nick I would RATHER live with the lead pipe as I know LEAD LASTS.
Think about how these “state of the art” plastic piping under slab piping FAILED because of “heating guys” not being licensed and doing innocent folks lots of damage.
Here this house was built in 1889 and NOW someone decides it needs a re pipe?
Shucks Nick I work on heating systems older then that here in the big city.
Getting rid of lead piping just for the sake of getting rid of it and putting in JUNK plastic is plain silly if the lead pipe still has integrity
The powers that be finally realized what I have said in 1969 PLASTIC fumes in a fire will kill more folks then the fire possibly can.
Now the code folks are seriously thinking of not allowing this menace to society to be used in INDOOR plumbing.
Wait till the code folks realize how many stumble bums dabble in heating with no formal training.
Heating should have a written test about stay bolts and mud legs and “R” stamp repairs and how to do internal and external inspections and some knowledge of Gas trains and various types of boilers.
ANYONE can put “heating” on the side of a truck but saying so doesn’t make it true.
Ask around Hydro about step down “Heating” stations or how to calibrate pneumatic controllers.
Ask about pneumatic pressure testing as opposed to hydrostatic testing.
Ask about the NBBI CDA or ASME Codes.
Would you believe some guy actually thinks a water heater designed to work at 160 PSI should have a T&P rated at 150.
The problem is too many areas rather collect a fee for a license rather then have someone really qualified doing the actual work.
Water lines made of AA or AAA lead can last over 1,000 years as some countries have proved.
Yet Modern man cannot make a decent underground plastic heating system it appears as ANYONE
can say heating.
What the folks should do is sue the stumble bums out of existence
A person puts in a heating system make them sign PERSONALLY that it will last 20 years, this will separate the wanna be’s from the professionals.
Have “heating” folks put their home up for collateral incase the system fails.
Have fun Nick
[Edited by SylvanLMP on 13 August 2001]
