Pour me a Rusty Sludge with a twist of Blech!

Mmm-mm!

And so we have our plumbing upgrade. This all started mind you with me wanting an ice-maker. While I was procrastinating about that our little problem with the hot water coming and going in the middle of showers got even worse. So when I finally got off my duff and got a plumber that I liked out to look at our pipes the diagnosis wasn't great.

Our galvanised pipes were not only 50-60 years old, all but ensuring that they were more than 50% blocked with rust, crud and delaminating pipe inards, but they were undersized to start with. 3/4" pipe from the meter which should be at least a full 1", and 1/2" pipe running to all fixtures which should all have been at least 3/4".

The only good news in all of this is that with the economy being the way it is, finding a plumber willing to work for reasonable rates is easier than its been in 10 years.

So we're all piped up with 1" and 3/4" pex. We're still cleaning bits of rust out of the valves of the faucets but the colour and taste of the water is markedly better already. And now my icemaker is hooked up! Whooooo!

Its the little things more and more.