My 24 year old country house has its own well water supply. I moved in 4 years ago. Last week a soldered joint in the loft failed and water flooded the loft and brought part of the ceiling down. Looking under the sump beneath the ground floor another soldered joint was spraying out. I tested the broken joint in the loft and the pipe has corroded to buggery. Nothing left of it. I'm now thinking the well water is so acidic it's killed all the copper pipe and I'll have to replumb the entire house in plastic pipe. However both failures were at soldered joints. How to tell if the entire system is f***ed or just the soldered joints?
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7 years ago