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-Glenn, a.k.a. The House Whisperer
| Duct Tape Band-Aid |
| Written by Glenn Stewart |
| Wednesday, 14 December 2011 15:36 |
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As a home inspector at Pacific Coast Inspections, I encounter grey duct tape being used all the time - mainly on heating and cooling ducts - a non-compliant use of the tape. It's probably true, that duct tape has a 1001 uses. There's even a book about duct tape that you can buy this year at Amazon.com called... you guessed it... the Duct Tape book. In the photo, I spotted a single rust-streak on the duct tape on a water supply pipe above the 2005 model water heater. The tape above the streak was peeled away revealing a very corroded pipe. Although the water heater was only 6 years old, the steel pipe fitting was connected to a flexible copper pipe probably without enough Teflon tape or pipe thread compound. Because steel and copper pipes are dissimilar metals and there was little or no insulator between them... the steel pipe corrodes rapidly.
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| Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 15:42 |
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