Thanks in advance for any advice here!
My well water comes up from my well pump in a PCV line, 1 inch. However, just a foot or two before coming through my cinder block foundation/basement wall, it connects to copper, 3/4 in. pipe.
Once through the wall, that copper line "tees" into 1/2 in. copper that supplies my downstairs toilet only. The other side if the "T" is 3/4 in.copper supply line thatvgoes straight up about ten feet and then connects back to PVC...everything is then PVC throughout the whole house.
I want to get rid of the copper section altogether. It's about 30 years old and is starting to spring leaks, as is to be expected I am told.
Question: Is there any reason why I should NOT make this easy conversion to all PVC?
BTW, the initial conversion point in the supply line from my well to the house, PVC to copper, just outside the foundation/wall cinder blocks, is about 6 feet underground!
Recently I had to dig down that deep to repair a simple leak in the copper, just this side of the PVC to copper junction. That was almost an all day job, necessary to make a 30 minute repair coupling in the copper!
I assume that there must be a reason why that PVC supply line was connected to copper line, thirty years ago when the house was built. By now, however, I'm afraid to cover up the underground copper or to replace the dry wall inside the basement bathroom where the copper has already leaked once or twice.
Hence the question as to why or why not, before I make it PVC all the way.
THANKS!
My well water comes up from my well pump in a PCV line, 1 inch. However, just a foot or two before coming through my cinder block foundation/basement wall, it connects to copper, 3/4 in. pipe.
Once through the wall, that copper line "tees" into 1/2 in. copper that supplies my downstairs toilet only. The other side if the "T" is 3/4 in.copper supply line thatvgoes straight up about ten feet and then connects back to PVC...everything is then PVC throughout the whole house.
I want to get rid of the copper section altogether. It's about 30 years old and is starting to spring leaks, as is to be expected I am told.
Question: Is there any reason why I should NOT make this easy conversion to all PVC?
BTW, the initial conversion point in the supply line from my well to the house, PVC to copper, just outside the foundation/wall cinder blocks, is about 6 feet underground!
Recently I had to dig down that deep to repair a simple leak in the copper, just this side of the PVC to copper junction. That was almost an all day job, necessary to make a 30 minute repair coupling in the copper!
I assume that there must be a reason why that PVC supply line was connected to copper line, thirty years ago when the house was built. By now, however, I'm afraid to cover up the underground copper or to replace the dry wall inside the basement bathroom where the copper has already leaked once or twice.
Hence the question as to why or why not, before I make it PVC all the way.
THANKS!