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Posted by Joseph Meehan on August 18, 2006, 5:38 pm
Dan_Musicant wrote:
> Ideally, I'd like to replace all my old galvanized piping, but it may
> not be practical to do this for some time.
>
> I just bought two identical new faucet sets for my bathroom sinks, and
> on the boxes it touts:
>
> "Drip-Free Ceramic Disk Cartridge Provides Outstanding Performance and
> Long Term Reliability."
>
> Each faucet set has two of those (hot and cold) and one spout. Brand
> is Glacier Bay (Home Depot), and posts here say they are almost
> certainly Delta made, with Delta replacement parts. They appear to be
> chrome plated brass, and the popup's are solid brass.
>
> I went into a local plumbing supply store in town yesterday. Although
> I was unaware of the place for decades, I was told they are
> celebrating their 100th anniversary this year! The one guy there said
> that unless I have decent plumbing, I can't expect ceramic valve
> faucets to last long. He said that with old galvanized plumbing
> (which sloughs off corroded metal continually), the ceramic valves
> will fail just a soon as compression valve's washers, and that in
> fact I won't be able to replace them but will have to replace the
> faucets!
>
> Naturally, I'm alarmed about this. One faucet set is yet to be
> installed, but I installed the other a week ago. The hot water to that
> faucet set is from a newly installed on demand heater (Noritz), and
> the heater has a water filter in-line, just after the hot water comes
> out of the heater. I can easily and quickly clean out that filter by
> turning off the valve right next to the filter and opening it up (did
> so once already).
>
> There's around a dozen feet of old galvanized from there to the
> faucet, however. The cold water, however, is sure to have sediment in
> it. Every time I take apart the pipes here and inspect the pipes, I
> find them in pretty bad shape. They pass water, but they are badly
> corroded internally. If I were to not use a pipe for a month or two
> (or maybe even a few days) the first time I used it, the water would
> come out brown for the first few seconds.
>
> So, I'm wondering if I can maybe get serviceable filters I can put
> between the shut offs and the faucet sets in both bathrooms that will
> protect the faucets. Or is that guy incorrect about the issues? TIA
> for any guidance.
>
> Dan
I would relax. I don't know what you can and can not replace in the
faucets, but I would not expect any problems in the near future. Also, I
suspect that they came with warranties, likely long ones. At worse you will
get new faucets for free.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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