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Reconnect A Soft Water Plumbing Loop

  
  
  

soft water loopWith all of the vacant properties out there, there is vandalism and theft on a daily basis, many of which are plumbing associated. Vandals will break into a vacant home and steal a variety of items. A popular item to take is the water softener. This is located in the garage and is a quick cut and throw it in the back of a truck. These units are four-to-five hundred dollars new, and the thieves can sell them for profit quickly.

Generally, they cut the copper piping behind the softener. In order to turn the water back on, this pipe (called the loop) needs to be reconnected so that water will flow into the house, and not all over the garage floor.

Depending on how the softener was removed, it may be a quick job or not. If the bare copper piping is sticking out of the wall, you can either sweat a new copper fitting or flex line onto each side, or even use a stainless steel hose with compression fittings on each end. If you are comfortable with a torch, here is an article on how to sweat copper piping.

For the compression fittings, you will place a nut over the pipe, slide the ferrule over the pipe, then place the mating hose onto the pipe and tighten it all up so that the ferrule compresses to seal out any leaks.

If you have remnants of copper flex lines still attached to the bare copper pipes exiting the wall, you will need to heat up the ends of the flex lines until the solder melts and remove them.

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