6 year old galvanised heating pipe - corrision

misterroy · 2019-03-11T17:37:31+00:00

What could have caused the heating pipe to corrode so badly that it failed? It was next to an external wall and lagged. The are a couple of lengths of the pipe lying outside the building unused for the same 6 years, other than the threaded ends, they look new.image

Mar 11, 2019 Last reply: 7 years ago 22 Replies

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Jim K.. 5 years ago

They weren't made of galvanised steel though were they?

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Jim K.. 5 years ago

And Victorian piers & lock gates are probably cast iron not steel?

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Jim K.. 5 years ago

Inhibitor?

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