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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Can you promise that every internal surface is covered? Completely? And will remain so?

    I guess that is a rhetorical question? The obvious thing to do would be sending a water sample to a lab and get it tested for lead, which is much cheaper than replacing all lead pipes based on just a suspicion. If you got old lead pipes and the test comes back negative you know for sure that all surfaces are covered in calcium carbonate.

    Replacing all poisonous, permanently brain damaging lead pipes should be a no brainer

    Only if the water in fact has lead in it, which often is not the case with old pipes, as I explained.


  • From what I have heard the inside of old lead water pipes is usually covered in several layers of calcium carbonate, at least in areas with hard water, these layers prevent the water from getting in contact with the lead. So if you live in an old house with lead pipes you do not need to panic. New lead pipes that lack this calcium carbonate layer are what is in fact dangerous to health and therefore should not be installed anymore.

    Edit: Downvotes for stating facts that do not fit the popular narrative, really? Reddit moment …