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moving steam piping

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radmix
radmix Member Posts: 194
in Strictly Steam
I have to move a steam pipe to an inside wall and the pipe is 1". Can I transition to 1" copper piping for this.

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  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
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    Copper transition

    Is this a supply pipe up by the ceiling, or a return near the floor?

    Current practice suggests that only return pipes under the waterline can be copper. Copper supplies will heat up, and expand and contract more than iron, and may distort out of being straight. They will need more support from the ceiling to keep them straight.

    You are lucky, this is only 1 inch pipe!--NBC
  • JStar
    JStar Member Posts: 2,752
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    Copper

    The answer is no. Never. Don't do it!
  • rmoore007ri
    rmoore007ri Member Posts: 45
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    No. Never. Don't do it.

    I'm in the "No. Never. Don't do it." camp. Period. Contractor installed new gas boiler on a new boiler incentive plan from National Grid. Despite my instructions, they switched to one inch copper for both returns after the vents that were a foot back from the ends and down into the Hartford Loop. Two weeks later a solder joint let go. That just doesn't happen with iron. (We are not even going to talk about the bull-headed "T")
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