Hi, my mains water pipe is 12mm copper that comes out of the concrete kitchen floor, last year when replacing dishwasher I noticed white fluffy salts, around the pipe and carefully cleaned them away and noted the ancient 12mm copper pipe covered in corrosion and it appears to be thinner than the rest of the pipe where it leaves the concrete floor, checked today and no worse looking but a little more salts arisen. I am sure I know the answer here but do I wait for a leak that might not happen for 10 years (I am sure the pipe was like this when I moved in 12 years ago) or do I face the unpleasant digging up concrete floor and get it fixed? I think the pipe is at leat 40 years old from previous kitchen works, the larger hole where the pipe comes out seems like softer sand/cement in a victorian concrete floor...leading lord knows where, to the outside somehow....(routes look like it might go across and under an extension they built in the 80s).
Copper in concrete can't be good long term I assume?
(the green wall is the delightful old kitchen paint, not damp/mould!
Copper in concrete can't be good long term I assume?
(the green wall is the delightful old kitchen paint, not damp/mould!
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