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> Snoshoe wrote:
> Shivani, do you know if it makes any significant difference the water
> pipe material? Metal vs. plastic. Static build up on the plastic I'm
> thinking would be the most it would do when nothing's moving through
> them.
>
Shivani replies:
Another thing to remember about PVC is that it's toxic. Not the
nicest thing to have your drinking/showering water sitting in. The production of
it involves tremendous toxicity, as well. Not an industry to support.
I'm not sure quite what you meant to ask, however. Difference in WHAT?
Non-conductive pipe will be less conductive, if that's what you meant.
But the water itself will be conductive, the more so the higher the mineral
content.
A number of people have replaced several feet of incoming metal water
pipe with nonconductive pipe, even adding a dilectric union. Against code,
but not illegal. If you choose to do this, I've been advised that it's
wise to wrap the metal pipe to each side of the new nonconductive pipe withsome
kind of insulation, so that nobody could possibly touch metal pipe on one
side of the span and on the other at the same time. Best not to touch any
water pipe and anything else at the same time!
Then you'd want to be sure nothing in the house is grounded to the water
pipes, either. Also, aganst codes but not illegal, as I understand.
Even so, if a water pipe passes near to an electrical conduit, phone
line or anything else that has high frequency current on it, that current is
extremely likely to jump onto the water pipe and there you are again.
Another job for a meter that can distinguish between 50/60 Hz. and the
higher frequencies of electrical pollution, which are the nasty symptom-causing
ones.
Regards,
Shivani
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