For our sins, the water piping in our house is mainly 22mm stainless steel. The feed pipe for our downstairs wc has a slight leak (More a weep at the moment) - without going into too many details, it looks like a corrosive has caused the pipe to corrode.
The pipe is wall mounted, exposed and the leak is on a straight section of pipe. The pipe downstream of the leak has a right angled turn and has a flexible pipe at the end to the WC.
I see it I have two options - replace the corroded section with a short section of pipe, or replace from just upstream of the corroded section all the way to the WC (about 4 feet). The latter would seem to be the easier option!
However, have no experience of joining to SS piping, I could do with some advice! My instinct would be to use plastic for the piping, to avoid electrolytic corrosion and especially as it is exposed, but I understand that you can't use push fittings with a stainless steel pipe - would a normal compression fitting be OK?
The pipe is wall mounted, exposed and the leak is on a straight section of pipe. The pipe downstream of the leak has a right angled turn and has a flexible pipe at the end to the WC.
I see it I have two options - replace the corroded section with a short section of pipe, or replace from just upstream of the corroded section all the way to the WC (about 4 feet). The latter would seem to be the easier option!
However, have no experience of joining to SS piping, I could do with some advice! My instinct would be to use plastic for the piping, to avoid electrolytic corrosion and especially as it is exposed, but I understand that you can't use push fittings with a stainless steel pipe - would a normal compression fitting be OK?
