Richard travels to Raleigh, North Carolina to help a homeowner replace the leaky polybutylene pipes throughout his house.
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In europe we do PPR piping for mains. Basically, a weldable plastic pipe, with guarantee for 50 years. Thick walls, ductile yet very ridgit and strong pipe, that can be used in mains or heating, indoors or outdoors, underground or in air, and can freeze and will not split. It is resistant to sun damage, is lab grade plastic, can resist any base or acid, and is joined with no glue or compression rings. You take a special iron, that heats and melts both the hub of the fitting and the end of the pipe and you push them together, fusing them together and making a permanent connection, with absolutely no chance of leakage. That is what i'm spending my money on all day long. O'm an apprentice plumber, and i have already installed many, many systems with PPR pipe. I ran my whole yard watering system with PPR and it is fed by a well pump, and after 4 years it still holds up like new. I installed it in my heating system, and it works great, basically a perfect pipe. I don't know why USA has not yet started uring that pipe..??
There are many factors as to which pipe will fail. Poly suffers thermal damage the aluminum rings were crap the plastic fittings were as well and chlorine breaks down poly pipe. The copper fittings can be damaged by low ph well water as can copper pipe. This goes the same for all pipes water conditions thermal damage pressure issues turbulence and so on. So in reality there is no far superior pipe for all plumbing across the world. Each area is different.
That’s a $7,000 & up job!
Over 2500 re-pipes in CPVC? Damn, how often does this guy change his phone number?
Should be using a reamer for the outside of the cpvc according to flowguard gold cpvc .
We have a pool house with a toilet and sink plumbed with cpvc. After my dad passed away it was left unfinished and unused for 15 years. I finally got the knowledge to finish it, and when i hooked up the water supply and went to turn it on the cpvc burst at a few joints, and the pipe split.
I replaced it with copper since it was such a small area, and it works fine now.
I guess no cleaner or primer
jeff falls sir, your voice and accent it is absolutely sublime.
Jeff Falls has a really nice Radio voice.
There is nothing wrong with polybutylene pipe. This system had appalling fittings. Hepworth in the UK give 50 year guarantees. Poly pipe is the normal in the UK for new build homes having been so for about 25 years.
https://blog.wavin.co.uk/all-you-need-to-know-about-hep2o-push-fit-plastic-plumbing-pipe/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEW11-4JkO0
BTW, I have no connection with Hepworth.