SGkent
Thank You
This one has been bugging me for awhile and any advice accepted. Years ago in San Diego I had a gate valve fail when the gate broke off the shaft internally due to electrolysis. I'd like to avoid the same scenario at my current home in NorCal. The main supply comes up out of the ground and is attached to the gate valve that I wish to replace with a ball valve if code will allow that. The house was built in 1979. The inlet line out of the ground appears visually to be some kind of black plastic and is around an inch and 1/8. It dos not look like ABS or anything like that - looks more flexible. I don't have the exact measurements or a photo with me although I will try to post some. Does anyone know what kind of plastic inlet lines were used in 1979, and what risk there is trying to unscrew, unclamp (or whatever the mechanism is of holding the valve to the line) that gate valve from the inlet line? Above the gate it is soldered copper but I don't know what that line is coming out of the ground. Any ideas? I'd hate to try to grab it with a pipe wrench and have it shatter at the ground after 35 years of weathering. Tract built home 1979, copper in the rest of the house thru the attic. Originally had Payne Heater and air, AO Smith water heater, cottage cheese ceiling, harvest gold countertops, T-111 siding, comp roof - pretty standard house for the era. - in Sacramento County and was built to 1979 codes.
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