They took the lead out...
Several years ago, throughout North America lead was removed from the solder used for making joints in copper pipes intended for carrying drinking water, just as before that we had removed lead from paint. Lead based solder is still available in stores for other tasks, ...
There are three key steps to making leak proof copper pipe joints.
Clean off both the inside of the elbow and the outside of the pipe with steel wool or a special cleaner tool.
Apply a soldering flux to both cleaned surfaces. The cleaning gets rid of contaminates and oxidation o...
This is one of those problems that are not dealt with seriously enough by the building officials in really cold regions. I have opened a blog space at the bottom of this article for you to add in your case history so we can demonstrate that this is a large and continuing problem. Take a look...