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  1. ozzie88 Member

    joined: May 13, 2011
    197 posts
    maine
    I bought this house 2 years ago,toilet never did flush good,checked everything I could looked ok. Seen some small green corrosion on 3inch copper drain pipe did not think nothing. Then when bare-foot in basement and touch water pipe got very small shock? Hum? Finally talked to a plumber said the copper pipe is coroded from electric backfeeding call electric company,so I did, they came out checked wires and transformer on pole,ground was gone, and neutrual was off transformer, they said this would cause a backfeed to my house or others too,[new transformer on] Now here photos of how bad my pipes were filled up with this green stuff a 7 feet piece and one smaller were stuffed.
    Anyways took out all copper drains put pvc. in everything works good now and no more shock from pipe. SAM_0764.JPG
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  2. vinny11950 Feeling the Heat

    joined: May 17, 2010
    396 posts
    Eastern Long Island, NY
    Wow! thanks for sharing.
  3. greg13 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 5, 2012
    374 posts
    CNY
    And if you were smart, you scraped the copper and about paid for the new PVC.
  4. Dune Minister of Fire

    Along these lines, I had to clear a kitchen drain for a lady the other day. She was boiling hamburger for her dog, then pouring the water down the sink. Trap completely stuffed with grease.
  5. jimbom Combustion Analyzer

    joined: Dec 19, 2010
    1,022 posts
    Missouri Ozarks
    My dog wants to be traded. It can be for a mutt to be named later. Only meat he gets is the odd deer leg or whatnot he drags up to the house. The vet always sounds kind of disappointed when he says his teeth look good for an old dog. No teeth cleaning necessary.
  6. Dune Minister of Fire

    Yeah, she used to fry it but she didn't like the smell anymore.
  7. ozzie88 Member

    joined: May 13, 2011
    197 posts
    maine
    Well I did just that and more, got $164.00 for copper i took and the 1 1/2inch. drain I put on wood lathe and buffed to make grab rails and towell racks for bathroom, and even buffed the 90* elbows [brass] came out good i thought, sealed them also. SAM_0780.JPG
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  8. ozzie88 Member

    joined: May 13, 2011
    197 posts
    maine
    View attachment 65044
    Well I did just that and more, got $164.00 for copper i took and the 1 1/2inch. drain I put on wood lathe and buffed to make grab rails and towell racks for bathroom, and even buffed the 90* elbows [brass] came out good i thought, sealed them also. View attachment 65044
  9. Highbeam Minister of Fire

    I have all copper drain lines too. Pretty crazy what they did in 1963. I had to bond them all to the copper water and then to the ground rods/panel during a recent panel swap.
  10. Czech Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 20, 2006
    1,056 posts
    Twin Cities, MN
    How did you anchor the hand rails please? Looks great.
  11. semipro Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 12, 2009
    1,701 posts
    SW Virginia
    That's one of the coolest towel racks I've ever seen!
  12. 'bert Minister of Fire

    +1 very cool

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