Hi,
I haven't been able to turn up the answer to this by searching on here - sorry if this has been covered.
The water supply pipe coming into my house is lead - there's about 8m of it inside the house, and I would guess about 6m more outside before it meets the main in the road.
It's probably been there since 1931.
Is it a problem? I have heard that old lead pipes in hard water areas (which I think Southampton is) will long since have formed a protective limescale coating - but I'd like to know for sure. (Can you test for lead in the water?)
I'm doing a cellar conversion and, although replacing it would be a load of hassle, replacing it AFTER the conversion would be twice as much - so now's the time if it has to be done.
Thanks,
Mark
I haven't been able to turn up the answer to this by searching on here - sorry if this has been covered.
The water supply pipe coming into my house is lead - there's about 8m of it inside the house, and I would guess about 6m more outside before it meets the main in the road.
It's probably been there since 1931.
Is it a problem? I have heard that old lead pipes in hard water areas (which I think Southampton is) will long since have formed a protective limescale coating - but I'd like to know for sure. (Can you test for lead in the water?)
I'm doing a cellar conversion and, although replacing it would be a load of hassle, replacing it AFTER the conversion would be twice as much - so now's the time if it has to be done.
Thanks,
Mark