Is there anything that I can use to clean the rust out of a galvanized pipe, or should I just replace my hot water pipes with PCVP?

Charlie:
Derek says, “Is there anything that I can use to clean the rust out of a galvanized pipe, or should I just replace my hot water pipes with PCVP?”

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Tom:
It should be PVCP, but-

Charlie:
….it’s what he wrote here, PCVP.

Tom:
No, I know, but keep looking at all that stuff, polyvinyl chloride.

Charlie:
I don’t know, I thought maybe there’s some kind of new fangled pipe that I hadn’t heard of. Okay.

Tom:
Texas Drain Technology, you’re not going to, you can clean it out. They sandblast it and then they line it with a, I’m going to call it a plastic type material, it’s really an epoxy, and that’s the best way to go. There’s no reason to re-pipe your home, I think that would be a waste. I would call Texas Drain Technologies.