//"pipes"You have your loft’s bathroom upstairs and it suddenly pours out uncontrollable torrents of water flooding your whole pad, what do you do? Well don’t just stand there and quickly run to the mains and shut off the water supply before you get an indoor pool and start cleaning. You can then get down and find the cause of all your troubles and if you happen to have water supply pipes that are copper and fixtures that are of say galvanized steel or some other material, then that can be your problem. Using two different metals without using proper adapters that isolates one metallic part form the other can induce a galvanic effect turning your pipes into one big chemical battery. Remember your high school experiments with acids and the two metal plates, copper and zinc, the same chemical reaction occurs which is why you should get yourself some adapters that often have some plastic sandwiched by the two materials your water piping system is made of.
Copper to copper, stainless to stainless and GI to GI, that’s the way it has to be so you prevent a repeat of your indoor waterfalls that can indeed ruin your day. Even your sink, if it’s made of antiqued copper can corrode mysteriously as an effect of this chemical reaction so isolation is the key. You can find these isolators in your local home depot or plumbing supply which may cost you but will make your pipes last a lot longer.