My home was built in 1975. I have no plumbing problems yet but to play it safe I am thinking of having the entire water pipe system subjected to Ace DuraFlo using E Pipe Technology.
What do you think of this technology versus replacing all the pipes?
William
Tom’s Answer:
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Tom: I don’t think you need to do it as preventative. I’d like to know what his pipes are. Nineteen seventy five was after the first gas OPEC crunch, ’73, remember that? Then ’77, it all went crazy. Actually, the year ’74-’75, homes were still at different standards, and being built, I think better in this town than some of the other stuff that was being built in the 80’s you hear so much about, that had the imported galvanized pipe. I have a feeling his pipe is copper, because of the year, and I would certainly check it. If it is, don’t fix it if it’s not broken.
Charlie: I was thrilled when we sold our house, and the home inspector came back and said, “This house has copper pipe.”
Tom: Yeah.
Charlie: It was built in the 80’s, though. Whoever built that house…
Tom: You had to spec it and you had to ask for it, or maybe some of you had different standards. My house has copper, and I rebuilt it in ’97 after the fire. A lot of people still use the galvanized. Today, we’re using…I know I burned it down. I’m sorry.
Charlie: I love that, the way he says, “After the fire…”
Tom: What I’m getting at is today we don’t use copper, using all these new Pex pipes, which are even better. Back then, copper was…
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