Descaling entire house

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QuantumJoe

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Brand new here, and wanted to ask a question about using a submersible pump and vinegar to descale my hot and cold water plumbing at home.

I have a water spigot right between my main shut-off valve and my home water entry point. I wanted to hook up a submersible pump to this spigot that pushes vinegar into the house while the main shutoff valve is closed, and then hook up a garden hose with an adapter to each faucet and return the used vinegar to the submersible pump bucket.

I imagine this would be effective in descaling, but is it safe for the plumbing?

Surely, I would need to then flush each component after descaling, but is this a viable method for removing the 1/8" of white scale in my 3/4" plumbing?

Thanks for the input!
 
Vinegar is probably to mild of an acid to descale 1\8" of calcium build up.

Try Calci Solve . I use it to descale a tankless water heater and commercial water heaters.
Mostly use it for descaling toilets.
It won't hurt the copper pipes.
Just need to be careful. No mistakes or mishaps
 
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