Are Your Plumbing Pipes Okay? - Building Facts
If you live in a home that was built before the 1970s,
your plumbing might be out of date. I'm not writing this article to
scare anyone, so don't panic. If your home was built before the 1970s,
your plumbing could easily last for another 40 years. Listen as I
explained more about my home improvement facts for the future.
I said not to panic, but this doesn't mean that we bury our heads in the
sand either. If you have galvanized water supply pipes or cast iron
waste pipes, there's a good chance that these pipes are slowly
deteriorating. This doesn't mean that they're going to fall apart
tomorrow, I'm just trying to inform you about potential problems you're
going to have to deal with in the future.
Your water supply pipes can break and you need to know that. These are
the home-improvement facts that most people don't ever think about,
until it actually happens. There are ways that you can prevent these
types of things from ever happening, but you're going to need to
understand the facts first.
Metal deteriorates over time and if you have metal plumbing pipes,
there's a good chance that they are deteriorating or have been
deteriorating for quite some time. They will continue to deteriorate
into the future until they no longer function properly.
These are the home-improvement facts I'm talking about. I've talked to a
lot of homeowners about potential problems in the future from
deteriorating metal plumbing pipes, but they don't want to hear it.
Believe it or not, if you have metal pipes and you live in an old home,
you're going to have problems with these pipes in the future.
There is no need to panic, you don't need to put your home on the
market, but you do need to understand the facts about your plumbing
pipes.