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Nancy Schwartz
Citizen
Username: Nancys60
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 4:21 pm: |     |
Time to do it. Is it nightmarish? Anyone to recommend for:
-Plumbing
- Restoration |
thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 328
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 5:04 pm: | |
Be aware that finding a plumber at this time of year could be challenging. Many work on heating systems, too, so they're very busy. You might wait until the spring. |
clueless
Citizen
Username: Clueless
Post Number: 9
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 10:56 pm: | |
I had Gateway Plumbing come by and replaced all the visible brass piping in the basement with copper. They were available within a week. |
optimyst
Citizen
Username: Optimyst
Post Number: 65
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 11:31 pm: | |
We had Coraggio Brothers Plumbing (973-762-1075) replace all the non-copper pipes in our basement this week. Polite, neat and thorough. A pleasant experience from start to finish. |
Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 31
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 8:24 am: | |
Yes,
I did a lot of mine myself ... the previous owner had most of what was inside the walls done with copper but had left some of the galvanized which I replaced with 3/4 copper and 1/2 copper.
The only plumber I have is me .... (although the city (west orange) paid one to put in pressure valves when they raised the street main pressure.) (That was Russo Bros.)
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
JGTierney
Citizen
Username: Jtg7448
Post Number: 104
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 11:47 am: | |
Gateway Plumbing is doing work for us right now.
They have been utterly professional.
Give them a call! |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 191
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 12:18 pm: | |
I second the Coraggio brothers. They have been my plumbers for years. Always return calls promptly, polite and do great work. |
peteglider
Citizen
Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 394
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 12:32 pm: | |
I have a galvanized steel pipe in the basement that was run after the house was initially built -- probably 50 feet long, I'm guessing its been in about 25 years. This pipe (I'm pretty sure) is the "feed" from the boiler to baseboards upstairs.
Everything else is copper in the system.
Before I bought the house there was some seepage at the foundation -- and this pipe (about 10 feet worth) is pretty rusty.
Is this a high risk for leakage? Should it be replaced -- soon? Or watched?
thx -- Pete
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Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 40
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 9:25 am: | |
If you have galvanized pipe on the boiler it may not be galvanized ... and if it feeds radiators its more likely steel ...
depends on lots of things ...is your heat steam or hot water . . .
Anyway ... since it's part of your heating plant ... you need to watch it for leaks .... but its probably fine until then .... there is a boiler age question here and a 'replace it then' thinking in my head ... (unless your boiler is new and then a good plumber wouldn't have left crappy pipe in place)
Depending on the heating plant .... it should actually NOT be copper .... (steam should always be steel pipes in cast iron fittings)
If it's hot water ... it can be copper or steel .... (copper sweat fittings tend to give up the fight and separate where steam is concerned)
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
mgaloo
Citizen
Username: Mgaloo
Post Number: 6
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 22, 2003 - 12:43 pm: | |
We had all of the water pipes in our house replaced in March when a leak in one indicated that the whole system was shot. (Original brass piping with pinholes throughout.) We had a lot of trouble finding a plumber willing to redo the piping without redoing entire bathrooms, meaning ripping out floors, retiling, replacing fixtures, etc. The estimates from several different contractors ranged from $4,500 to $45,000.....
One honest guy agreed to do what we wanted--replace the water pipes, leaving the original bathrooms (3) in place, by opening up ceilings, walls, etc. The only problem with this approach is that the sewer lines (running from toilets, drains, etc) are still original. If they go, we will have to redo the baths at that time, but at least we can plan ahead for it.
The plumber was Andy Confortini (908-735-6690). I can highly recommend him. (By the say, he wouldn't do the repair work to the walls. We had to get a separate contractor for that once the plumbing job was done.) |
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