Water quality should come first.

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Gary Slusser

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Here's a link to a newspaper lawsuit story concerning water line corrosion problems; loaded with many misconceptions and misplaced blame based on ignorance of water quality issues. It shows the importance of plumbers and those specifying materials, knowing and understanding water quality issues and potential future water line material choice problems.

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Actually it shows the importance for getting changes approved in writing. I would assume any water that ate through the steel pipe that quickly, would also affect copper tubing. As far as the original installation, I cannot see how using steel would have been cheaper, given the amount of labor involved in cutting, threading, and installing each piece, not because it was heavier.
 

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Yeah, I agree, especially that copper would have been leaking long before the galvanized and yet somewhere in me there is this part that keeps saying when the lawyers learn about water quality issues, plumbers are going to be held responsible for the selection of the materials used. There's this legal thing I can't recall the name of but it's something to do with professional knowledge being more responsible than the 'want' of the customer. Kinda like labels on stuff warning people not to misuse a product (don't stick objects through the protective grill of the window fan...); it's covered under most E and O (Errors and Omissions) insurance policies. It covers the error of the professional in selling a product that is not the correct one for that customer. Now if the professional doesn't sell or spec the product, only installs it, some lawyer is going to say the professional should have know better and got a signed release for the product. Many professions live under that law every day. I'll probably remember what it's called by Oct... :) And as the professional, there's no excuse for not knowing. Like the comment in that artice that softeners caused the problem.
 

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softeners had removed too much pH from the water

Sounds like a couple of gallons of pH would've fixed them up without all this hassle.
 
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