There is all manner of water lines down in the basement. It's an impressive historical record of water supply lines throughout history, both galvanized and copper pipe.
And there's some interesting stuff, too.
- Shutoff valves in random places (the one the hot line shuts off the kitchen and the master bath, while the cold one only shuts off the kitchen sink!).
- Shutoff valves that are labelled for gas rather than water...
- Random pipe diameters. A 1-inch line that randomly chokes down to 3/4-inch for no apparent reason.
- Short bits of pipe soldered together to make a longer run. It's only a 3-foot run, why not one 3-foot piece rather than 6 6-inch pieces with 5 couplings?
- Lines that are capped-off in odd places. Not near the last branch, but 10 feet after the last branch.
Someday, when we remodel the kitchen and master bath, I'm going to replace all this junk with PEX.
At any rate, I had to tap into an existing copper water line. Though I'm getting better at sweating the joints, I'm still not good enough.
Well, good enough to get a joint that doesn't leak, but not good enough to get a pretty one.
Or, apparently, to prevent a little excess molten solder from dropping onto my finger.
Lovely isn't it?
Only a few bad words were spoken...
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