Lead water pipes in new home (1967 new to me)

GForsdyke · 19-04-2022 06:00PM #1

Found my new home has lead water pipes! Gonna get them replaced asap. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'd recommend everyone check, fairly modern homes can have them too

19-04-2022 06:12PM

How old is your home?

GForsdyke · 19-04-2022 06:14PM

1967, so fairly late for lead pipes, became illegal in the 1970s

19-04-2022 06:18PM

Ah. That makes sense. When you said new home I thought it newly built.

Atlantic Dawn · 19-04-2022 06:21PM

Do you know if any of the mains supply outside your property boundary is lead too? This can sometimes also be the case, ideally need everything replaced which would require engagement with Irish Water, I think full replacement of lead in the mains are part of a wider plan.

19-04-2022 06:25PM

Irish Water say that none of the mains network has lead pipes. You could have lead pipes from the stopcock on the road to your home

19-04-2022 06:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118947553#Comment_118947553

In fairness the title is fairly misleading........55yrs old is hardly "new"

brokenangel · 19-04-2022 06:32PM

I guess it is new to the OP so that is what they meant

Did you get a survey done before buying the house? if so they should have called out it had lead pipes.

I looked at one house which had them when I was last buying, I wasn't in the mood to get stuck into them so passed. In the end I bought around the corner and someone else bought. They just knocked the house and built on the same spot.

He was a builder so maybe it was cheaper for him to do that way instead of refurbishment

GForsdyke · 19-04-2022 07:02PM

Yeah sorry I should have been clearer, I recently bought the house.

brokenangel · 19-04-2022 09:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118947749#Comment_118947749

No need really, was clear to me

Lead water pipes in new home (1967 new to me)

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