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| ChadTower:
I'm sure it's not a hard thing for someone more experienced with plumbing than I am... I make small changes, not comfortable cutting or anything yet. I want this one done right and am willing to pay for it. It's really old, has brass nonflexible feeding lines that need to be replaced, and I fear that even if I tried this one I would run into issues with the age of the pipes... cracking a joint someplace else or something like that. It's too close to my pins to mess with. It's not the gasket... it's an ancient faucet that already had a cracking base. The faucet itself wouldn't swivel anymore because it was corroded... I forced it to swivel last night and boom it started pouring hot water down the back of the housing into the floor. |
| NightGod:
Being more experienced with plumbing really has nothing to do with it-all my experience was learned when ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- went wrong in my house and I fixed it. If it's brass lines, buy some PVC pipe and some flexible lines and replace it. PVC is insanely easy to work with (cut with a hacksaw, smooth the burrs from the cut with an utility knife, PVC primer, PVC adhesive, stick together, wait 90 seconds). Take some measurements (thickness of the pipes you are replacing and the pipes that those are connected to, length of the pipe you need to replace), go to a local hardware store (real one, not a big box store) and ask them for help picking out the right stuff. You could replace half the plumbing in your house with PVC with $275 and a lazy day spent drinking beer and occasionally doing some work. |
| shardian:
Just What you do is this: Get a pipe cutter, cut the line right below the existing valve. Get a no-solder compression fitting valve to replace it with. ( I saw this on a pbs repair show one time. Neat stuff!) Bam! The line is repaired with no soldering/banging around. Next remove old faucet and put in new one. Read This: http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infplumb/infcomp.shtm |
| mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 20, 2006, 08:22:41 am ---And my pinball machines are under that stop valve. --- End quote --- Eh? |
| shardian:
There is NO NEED to replace all of your copper piping with pvc. 1/2" copper is standard for supply lines in your house. Waste lines however are now commonly pvc pipe. |
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