What's mildly irritating you today?

Lamplighter · 01-05-2011, 09:48 AM

Glatt, if it's just a tiny leak, they usually fix themselves (particularly if you have some rust in those pipes)
So I'd give it a couple of days before tearing it apart further.
Just check daily with Kleenex or toilet paper to see if it still leaking

Laziness often wins the day...
but I'd even try changing out the washer in the valve before working on replacement.

glatt · 01-05-2011, 09:59 AM

I'm trying that. I did the fix last night, and the valve was still leaking this morning. Tiny leak, but one that I can't live with. I'll give it a couple more days. I wonder if rubbing plumber's grease on it from the outside would do anything?

On my list of "things to do" is to re-plumb the entire house with PEX so I stop getting flakes of rust from these old galvanized pipes messing up fixtures.

plthijinx · 01-05-2011, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

... I wonder if rubbing plumber's grease on it from the outside would do anything?

On my list of "things to do" is to re-plumb the entire house with PEX so I stop getting flakes of rust from these old galvanized pipes messing up fixtures.

it might. if you want to put the project off until the weekend you could turn the water off wipe it dry and seal it with saran wrap and duct tape. that might work.

footfootfoot · 01-05-2011, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I'm trying that. I did the fix last night, and the valve was still leaking this morning. Tiny leak, but one that I can't live with. I'll give it a couple more days. I wonder if rubbing plumber's grease on it from the outside would do anything?

On my list of "things to do" is to re-plumb the entire house with PEX so I stop getting flakes of rust from these old galvanized pipes messing up fixtures.

Glatt, is it a gate valve or a ball valve? If it is a gate valve and is leaking from the stem you just take off the handle, loosen the large packing nut that goes around the stem and put a piece of stem packing around the stem and then put the packing nut back on, then the handle.

That's why most people use ball valves nowadays.

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01-05-2011, 09:48 AM	#1
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Glatt, if it's just a tiny leak, they usually fix themselves (particularly if you have some rust in those pipes) So I'd give it a couple of days before tearing it apart further. Just check daily with Kleenex or toilet paper to see if it still leaking Laziness often wins the day... but I'd even try changing out the washer in the valve before working on replacement.

01-05-2011, 09:59 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I'm trying that. I did the fix last night, and the valve was still leaking this morning. Tiny leak, but one that I can't live with. I'll give it a couple more days. I wonder if rubbing plumber's grease on it from the outside would do anything? On my list of "things to do" is to re-plumb the entire house with PEX so I stop getting flakes of rust from these old galvanized pipes messing up fixtures.

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