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Proper plumbers use copper for inaccessible pipes. They also don't use 'solder ring' fittings.
Disagree most of the old timers use it and is spec on some commercial jobs
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Proper plumbers use copper for inaccessible pipes. They also don't use 'solder ring' fittings.
Disagree most of the old timers use it and is spec on some commercial jobs
Maybe. It's just the norm ain't itSurely that’s because of price and it is much cheaper for pros to use end feed?
Thanks for calling me an old timer.
You are right about solder ring fittings being the norm in the past. Not sure why that was, but rarely see end feed on work done 50 years ago and I was taught to use Yorkshire fittings.
End feed was thought of by many as inferior then.
I suppose you could think of Yorkshire fittings as the faster method of soldering
end feed wasnt around back then as much well that’s what I was told
That old chestnutYes, I think that is right.
There was the heavy brass end feed fittings about. I do know homes built end of war - 1946, had end feed copper work.
I didn’t do it though!!
I always understood that copper pipe must be sleeved in concrete because it then is allowed to expand and contract and not try to pull itself apart which was just painting it with gloss paint was a none starterThat's strange because the same website recommends burying copper in lime chippings to act as a preservative.
There must be some reaction when the lime is mixed that makes it corrosive because natural lime isn't corrosive to copper at all, in fact copper artefacts have been found perfectly preserved in lime and they have been buried for hundreds of years.
I fully agree that copper should always be sleaved with felt at a minimum, but I've always done it on the basis it gives the copper an expansion gap and prolongs the life of the copper by reducing abrasion.
That old chestnut
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