These questions are dumb so please don't laugh too hard. I'm replacing my well pressure tank and the related plumbing. My existing indoor plumbing to the pressure tank is galvanized pipe but it is pretty rusty so I was thinking of replacing it with brass. Then I read here that plumbing codes in some areas ban brass pipe for water pipes because of lead content. (I'm not sure if that applies to my area and I'm not too concerned about it anyway.) But before heading out to buy the new pipe and fittings, I also checked out galvanized pipe online and I see that some galvanized pipe is approved for drinking water pipes and others are not. I didn't know that before. So I have four questions:
1) What type of pipe (and fittings) is recommended?
2) If I choose brass pipe, are there types that do not contain lead? Again, I'm not really worried about that anyway but if I go with brass, I figure I might as well ask about this now. In other words, if I go with brass, is there something I should look for?
3) If I go with galvanized pipe and fittings, is there something I should look for to make sure it is approved for drinking water?
4) I just found a website about pressure tank installation and the person who wrote it recommends PVC pipe. I hadn't even thought of that because I didn't think I could use PVC for this purpose. Can I?
1) What type of pipe (and fittings) is recommended?
2) If I choose brass pipe, are there types that do not contain lead? Again, I'm not really worried about that anyway but if I go with brass, I figure I might as well ask about this now. In other words, if I go with brass, is there something I should look for?
3) If I go with galvanized pipe and fittings, is there something I should look for to make sure it is approved for drinking water?
4) I just found a website about pressure tank installation and the person who wrote it recommends PVC pipe. I hadn't even thought of that because I didn't think I could use PVC for this purpose. Can I?
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