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Remove Old Galvanized Water Lines (Kitchen)

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Hazardous Rusted Plumbing into modern plumbing || PLUMBING NIGHTMARE!

What happens here

Using heavy-duty pipe wrenches, begin the process of disconnecting and removing the old galvanized steel water supply lines from the kitchen area. This task can be challenging due to decades of rust and seized threads, requiring significant force and multiple attempts. Some pipes may also be poorly installed, with galvanized threaded into PVC, which is prone to galvanic corrosion and leaks.

Goal: This step focuses on carefully removing the old, often corroded, galvanized steel water supply lines from the kitchen area using appropriate plumbing wrenches.

Tools and materials

  • Pipe Wrench
  • Reciprocating Saw (optional)

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this entire house I need a vacation I'm going to break this project up into two segments just for my own sanity I'm going to first work with the water lines transition them all to pecs that's the Modern Day stuff that everybody uses and then tomorrow I'll start doing all this drainage here which is uh I don't know I think I can get away with galvanized piping but I'll have to check up on code so meantime let's keep our fingers crossed that we could actually unscrew these pipes cuz that's going to be a whole lot of cutting with the saw oh yeah we're going to have to earn our cute [Music] today oh boy would you look at that look at all this rust that's just sitting on top that's going through your faucet I bet you you turn on the water and it looks like blood or something like that it's all this orange disgusting we're going to put a stop to this [Music] I hope you like tap water cuz if you could survive this you can survive [Music] anything it's not even secured by anything it looks like the fitting from this elbow onward is uh steel but it's threading into PVC which that's good news that means I don't have to run all new PVC I just need to basically run from here I don't know how this drain pipe was even sitting on there there's I mean that's just sitting caked with PVC so I think the guy just like slid it on but it definitely does not screw in deep enough is there anything done right in

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