Dripping copper water pipes

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Sally-sally

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Hi
I’m new here and excited to post my first thread!
I purchased a house and since day 1 plumbing issues showed up! While water pressure is god there are dripping almost everywhere! Every water source I use cause dripping in the pipes underneath it, it’s copper pipes, it’s not like water gushing out but one or two drops every second, enough to fill buckets of water! I don’t have the funds to hire professionals and so looking for ways on how to fix that myself, I don’t have experience with plumbing but willing to learn. Is there any way to fix that others than replacing all dripping pipes?
 
that would be best left up to professionals fixing a leaky faucet is ok to try but if you don't have any experience ,replacing water lines is not the place to start learning
lex would be the way to go its less expensive than copper and faster the is a colored strip on the copper if you can see it it would be red blue or green,it may be that you copper pipng is touching another metal (steel,cast iron...even a nail.....it causes a reaction called electrolysis different metals react when touching each other....that could be the cause or you could have hard water you need know whats causing the problem also
 
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