my bathroom is behind my grow closet. in that closet are some pipes that lead into the bathtub. when i got my house repiped with pecs i didn’t get this replaced. it was in good order then.
I am worried it will leak during a run and mess up things.
should i get this fixed soon, or am I ok for a while?
also, I am having the shower tiled on the other side. It might mess up the tile if I have to fix it. i guess i can repair things, but anyways…more complication.
It looks to me like it did leak at some point, but it has been repaired as well. The damage to the drywal in my opinion looks like it’s been there a while but has been dried out or is leak free. The pipe in the middle there has pipe wrench marking on it, so it may have been repaired in the past.
i had a whole house repipe some years ago, but they wanted more for the tub connections and I didn’t want to pay it at the time. i was worried i messed up. i am having some cosmetic work done and didnt’ want that messed up or my crop disturbed.
That pipe has had water pressure through it recently, and theres no drips/leaks? If its only accessible during the work they are currently doing i’d say go for it and get it redone. If its always accessible, might be safe to fix in between runs.
The elbow and nipple look to be galvanized pipe. Not good for water under pressure. Corrodes over time as well as slowly clogs with minerals within water. Also bad to have most metals in contact with copper. Corrodes the copper fitting it’s connected to. Brass and copper are good together.
Always do plumbing before you tile. Unless you like paying for tile work.
Looks like the galvanized pipe is for the tub spout? Maybe a three handle diverter? If so that’s not really under pressure. If so however there’s probably a pipe going up to the shower head that would have some/ more pressure. If you had a leak in future it would be small and only leak when used. If it were me I would replace more so if having tile work replaced.
@Foreigner It’s alway accessible through a small door in a closet backed up to the bathroom. I just can’t get to it because tents are in the way. i think i can change this out later on with minimal impact. It doesn’t look too bad. I should have had PECs installed when i got the rest of the house done but exwife was super cheap. we saved like 300 bucks. I bet it costs way more today.
@ElChapo26 thanks, i thought it would be ok for a bit. the rust may be leftover from when the connected the copper pipe which i think connects to the polyeurothane piping i have in the rest of the house.
I think I will change out after this next run and after getting the shower wall tile replaced…I’ll keep a little tile in case I lose a few during the process. the bud in this run is probably worth more than the tile job.
I think the pipe between the diverter spout and shower head should be hard pipe instead of pex. You might change out the diverter if doing new tile?
the bud in this run is probably worth more than the tile job.
I need a tile pro in trade myself
Are you sure that’s not the drain pipe for the shower. The drains to showers normally have overflow and vents for the drain line. Still not ideal for electrolysis with mixed metals in a line. But it appears they used pipe dope to eliminate that risk. Probably doesn’t look the best on paper but appears to be performing well if that is the drain pipe ? I would assume your pressure lines are still wrapped in pipe insulation ? Cheers !!!
i think it’s the line into the shower or it might be the overflow to the drain going down. not sure exactly, but the drain is at ground level going under the house.
I’m pretty sure you’re looking at a drain assembly. My question is that a threaded brass Y fitting ? I seriously doubt that it is so most likely it is a drain line and it’s probably not even threaded it looks like they just jammed the pipe into the brass Y and covered it with pipe dope to seal it ? If that was a galvanized pressured waterline it would be 1 inch or less outside diameter. Looks bigger than that in the picture ?
