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Been spending the last few days working on neighbor (JRs) plumbing (for those who don't know, JR is 85). He has a spring fed cystern and Jet Pump at the house. Everything was plugged and he still has Galvanized pipe and a Galvanized pressure tank - I think we will end up replacing everything. It is a small crawl space and it has been in the 90s with high humidity. :thumbdown:
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I don't envy you one bit...nice of you to help JR and I have replumbed two houses that had all galvanized. It's strong, lasts forever, but is a HUGE PIB to work on. I had some parts of it that were 55 years old and still didn't leak. And you could bang on them with a sledge and they still didn't leak. Try that with copper or plastic....:laughing::laughing:
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Weren't leaking, but most were so full of rust and crud that a 1" pipe had about a soda straw size flow of water. The Goulds Pump runs, but won't build any pressure, so I guess the next step is to basically pull everything out and start over.
I'll try to clean out the impeller first, but expect to be getting everything new. Will plan to move all the pipes to one side or the other of the entry instead of crawling around and over the mess that is in there. JR used what he had and made it fit. I'll try to do it neatly with unions so things can be taken apart without cutting. This has nothing to do with mowing, except that the mowing had been put on hold until I could not stand it anymore and did some this morning, I do LOVE my new Ventrac ! :thumbsup: :biggrin:
I'll try to clean out the impeller first, but expect to be getting everything new. Will plan to move all the pipes to one side or the other of the entry instead of crawling around and over the mess that is in there. JR used what he had and made it fit. I'll try to do it neatly with unions so things can be taken apart without cutting. This has nothing to do with mowing, except that the mowing had been put on hold until I could not stand it anymore and did some this morning, I do LOVE my new Ventrac ! :thumbsup: :biggrin:
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If you can get both ends open you could try blowing compressed air through the pipe to clean it out. I don't know how much rust you have but maybe the pipes don't need to be replaced.
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Good idea there, but take it from me, the deposits that build up harden over time and there is no way any type of air pressure will dislodge the crud. You would basically have to use a sewer snake on a drill to loosen the stuff and unless you got it all out, then rinsed the pipe with a pressure washer, you would end up with the crud in all of your fixtures like faucets, etc. And as far as replacing existing galvanized pope with new, well, if you think copper pipe and fittings are expensive, you would FAINT when you saw what new galvanized costs. And because it's all imported now, I doubt if the quality is as good as the old stuff. One of the reasons old galvanized pipe is so strong and leak free is because of the extra thickness and sealing the deposits give....:laughing::laughing: