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Piping concerns

Fizz
Member Posts: 547
Moving piping to another section of main and/or branch off main. Piping of main is 100 yrs old as is branch. Concerned about having work done on old piping. Legitimate?
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antique pipes
maybe you could draw a plan of the present piping, with the intended modifications shown.
a skilled pipe-fitter will be able to either cut the pipe between two fittings, or break a fitting with a hammer, and expose good threads.
I would be more concerned that the work would have the necessary pitch, and that the minimum pipe sizes for the radiators served would be kept.--NBC0 -
Anyone's guess
When you are dealing with 100+ year old pipe, of any kind, it's all up to chance. I just did some work on my main, its 112 years old, and when I got into it, it was almost as good as new. The difficulty is with the joints/connections. They are almost impossible to break loose without actually hitting them with a hammer to actually break them. Steam seems to almost weld those threaded joints together.0 -
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add that green lines are proposed 1" piping, the top one is to the main, the bottom to the branch(11/2") off main.0
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