My son is buying a house that has almost all galvanized steel plumbing that will need to be replaced as there is little water flow at some of the faucets.
It’s almost all exposed where it can be easily worked on with the exception of the basement shower supply. I intend to cut that at the last exposed location and just splice the PEX at that point for now.
A couple other faucets will be spliced to immediately below the upper floor.
The pipes that feed the kitchen sink have been replaced with copper but it only extends down through the floor and immediately transitions to galvanized steel at the 90s. The kitchen piping is about five feet removed from the electrical main panel.
The water service enters on completely the opposite side of the house and the water heater is halfway in between in the center of the basement.
I have not opened a code book other than to look up ampacity and conduit fill in a decade and a half and I’ve never done anything residential before
I plan to run a solid grounding conductor from the kitchen sink piping to the electrical panel ground bar and another from the city side of the meter to the electrical panel ground bar. Is this the correct thing to do? Do I need to bond all of the metal faucet plumbing? How about the water heater, which is natural gas btw?
It’s almost all exposed where it can be easily worked on with the exception of the basement shower supply. I intend to cut that at the last exposed location and just splice the PEX at that point for now.
A couple other faucets will be spliced to immediately below the upper floor.
The pipes that feed the kitchen sink have been replaced with copper but it only extends down through the floor and immediately transitions to galvanized steel at the 90s. The kitchen piping is about five feet removed from the electrical main panel.
The water service enters on completely the opposite side of the house and the water heater is halfway in between in the center of the basement.
I have not opened a code book other than to look up ampacity and conduit fill in a decade and a half and I’ve never done anything residential before
I plan to run a solid grounding conductor from the kitchen sink piping to the electrical panel ground bar and another from the city side of the meter to the electrical panel ground bar. Is this the correct thing to do? Do I need to bond all of the metal faucet plumbing? How about the water heater, which is natural gas btw?