My swimming pool is going on 25 years now and the PVC and black plastic (can't
remember what that's called) has held up without incident, at least as far as
chlorine is concerned. The only deterioration I get is from sunlight.
Trevor Boicey wrote:
> So from all the discussion last round, I decided just to epoxy in a
> new tap and go back to using the tub. (getting cold here... I need my
> tub...)
>
> However, looking at the old copper tap that was plumbed in, I can see
> why it came off... about 1cm of the end of it has just disappeared!
>
> Instead of having about 7 threads like a new one, it has about 2. Ok,
> so chlorinated water isn't too kind to copper, that tub is only 6 years
> old or so, that's a fair chunk of metal missing.
>
> So now I need to get a tap that will survive in Chlorine. Does
> anybody have any experience working with pools or similar? I can be
> pretty flexible, since now I see why the old one failed I don't have any
> concerns just epoxying in a new one.
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