I'm sure you're trying to be funny, but minerals are the enemy of pipes. The only people that say you want minerals in your home drinking water are plumbers and pipe salesmen. Things like calcium and lime cling to any tiny imperfection in the pipe (even copper and plastic) and start building up over time. It's not long before it's clogging up your pipes, your water heater, your home boiler, your dish washer, washing machines, baseboard heaters, anything that has running water going through it.
There's nothing safe about this. Most people filter their water as it comes into their home, they don't drinking it directly from the source, but if all this rust and corrosion is on the other side of the filter you're drinking it.
@@emerje0 research hard water safety. Filters only stop particles big enough to clog faucet screens. Humans have been drinking hard water since the beginning.
@@emerje0 Sam's right. From first install the pipes build up a layer of deposits and rust. There after it actually protects the pipe. Similar to the way aluminum does not "corrode" when in actually it builds a layer of corrosion that protects the rest of the aluminum below it.
@bobwatters filters really only make water LOOK good. They don't eliminate dissolved solids. I have always had iron rich water, and to small of a filter gets plugged up very fast. It's always been cheaper and easier to change out cheap cotton filters and clean faucet screens often. A water system would eliminate that issue but they are to expensive.
hard water and water with rust in it are two very diffrent things. i had a 1000L fishtank and used steel tube for a piece of my filter(bad idea i know) within a month it killed all of my fish, only when i was selling it did i notice the rusted pipe. so i did a ph test on the water with rust, it was off the chart. not to mention the dissolved metals making their way thru. this water pipe is safe for no man or fish to drink from.
The wear patterns on the inside of the pipe are due to the way the material for the pipe was produced; there's a non-uniform distribution of elements of things like nickel and carbon throughout the body of the pipe, therefor different sections will have (slightly) different levels of resistance to both the minerals in the water itself (including, obviously, the water) as well as the friction from those elements (and the water itself). Tldr: Chemistry is why.
Also, there's rust, which isn't the same as the hardness deposits. Rust is oxidized iron (similar byproducts come from oxidization of other metals, same idea applies), so the rust you blasted away was once part of that pipe.
galvanized steel is coated with zinc. when the coating wears away at some point, the coating surrounding that point continues to prevent rust by sacrificing nearby zinc to the rust god Galvanos. the bare patch starts to grow in a little circle as it prefers to sacrifice zinc that is closest first. the iron starts to form rust when the bare patch is a few mm or so in diameter. that's why the pitting makes little circles. the size of the circles depends on which rust spots are oldest. when circles overlap, the corrosion will start to flake off chunks and become more irregular. the distribution of alloying elements in the steel is way more uniform than the coating and you would need magnification to see that.
I remember it by associating the Dutch word "stalagtieten" with the word "hangtieten" (hanging/sagging boobs). It's a bit more vulgar but it is certainly memorable.
Fun fact, really old homes can have lead water service. (Pipe made of lead). Even when Colorado was in a drought, they were telling people in old Denver homes to flush out the pipes for two minutes before using.
@@geometricart7851 Fact is that bottled water comes straight from the tap you drink from anyways. There is nothing magical about bottled water nor is any testing done etc
We called one of our barracks Mordor, the air smelled of mold and the blond guys had greenish hair after taking a shower. The water was always boiled before drinking
Hey y'all, if you do get a copper finger please be sure to not think of it as actually clean. If you open a door with it and throw it in your pocket, you're just contaminating your pocket. While copper has slight antimicrobial properties, it is NOT instantaneous.
I'm not sure why copper has gotten a reputation for all kinds of magical properties. This seems just like a good way to look like a moron trying to open a door
@@WaterjetChannel that was high quality mineral water that he paid to get rid of... He could have bottled it and made a few bucks selling it after the video dropped
hello from germany the most of the brown stuff is just rustand it can even look worse than this i had 1 time a 2 inch pipe that hade a hole left of 0.4 inches. The Water is btw still save to drink if the pipe is used normaly and that water dosnt stand in the pipe for to long(1-2 weeks) Under pressur the minerales like lime (limestone) are desolved in the warter. The most lime is start forming if it exit the pipe (in the shower etc)
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Next time you're cutting a pipe or similarly hollow object, try filling it with a clear resin and letting it harden first. That should keep the waterjet from cleaning out anything inside.
Some cities used a lot of asbestos cement and cast iron pipelines lots of which are still in use today, the inside of them is actually pretty clean once you saw them in half(the inside of cast iron looks dark but sample tests show that the amount of iron or rust in them isn't harmful. You don't really want to mess with them too much because they tend to leak quite fast so most water companies just leave them be as they are harmless most of the time which is why lots of them haven't been replaced by newer materials. Most newer built neighborhoods make use of either PVC or epoxy coated iron pipes with the latter being used for large streets or areas with high consumption etc. The real nasty pipelines are the lead ones, there's a chance of getting lead poisoning from them which can be especially damaging for children. It's pretty rare to find them in my country of the Netherlands as they were sanitized over the years. I suggest google searching some of the pipelines i mentioned to have a clear idea of what they look like. ps: I know it might not be the same case in your country/region or whatever but most countries hold drinking water to a high standard as to prevent people from getting sick.
Men don't need iron at all unless they bleed a LOT. Men on average have all the iron their body will need from the age of 10 or so. In fact excessive iron is very toxic to the body
@@godnguns9296 bacteria commonly found in soil. Hence the association with rust: step on a nail you should get a tetanus shot, incidentally the nail is probably rusty since it's been outside and on the ground. The rust has nothing to do with the cause of the disease but is quite likely to be present on dirty objects.
To be honest, this looks exactly like the mineral water wells in Germany look like. Of course there the minerals are way bigger and look like what actual spa decoration would look like. But still, same colors and textures. Apparently those mineral wells bring you the cleanest and healthiest water you can get. BUT - those minerals are also the reason for when you dont have your water running for a while, you get orange water first, because the minerals dried and became "mineral dust". The orange water you shouldn't drink, because it can contain too much iron. But as long as the water runs through minerals and stays transparent its perfectly fine.
Crap... My house was built in 53 and still has some galvanized pipe leading to our well tank. I installed a 5 micron filter to collect the rust and keep it out of our water, but looks like I'm going to need to replace those soon!
You guys know that happens in all pipes and actually helps keep the water safe from any lead inside the pipes. In flint they were fine until they switched to river water that was too hard for the pipes, the pipes were fine before because they were coated with the build up but they water broke that down exposing the lead pipes to the water causing the contamination
We have hard water here in N Indiana also. I think you're correct about it being cavitation. Have you ever noticed that in very old buildings you can hear the water pipes knocking and groaning? It must be because of the high pressures caused by the almost completely clogged pipes.
That's pitting corrosion. Rust, lime scale, oxides etc reduce further oxidation for most of the pipe (soft and acidic water is corrosive; hard water is less corrosive, but if it's too hard it deposits on the inside of the pipe). You still get local sites that happen to be less protected, have some defect or whatever and these become anodes, while the rest of the pipe becomes the cathode. These pits form that rust preferentially and protect other areas of the pipe (same way galvanization works to protect the pipe, except the pits in your pipe become the sacrificial anode) and it looks pockmarked like moon craters. In parts of the US where there is still a lot of lead piping and lead service lines they even harden the water or add ortophosphates etc to the water to deliberately create some scale to form on the inside of lead pipes and reduce corrosion. This scale prevents toxic levels of lead from getting into the drinking water (until someone fucks up, e.g. when Flint Michigan switched water source and neglected to treat the water properly). That pipe doesn't even look *that* bad in terms of how much gunk is deposited on the inside, but it's pretty badly corroded. It's fairly common to have 4 inch cast iron pipe for fire hydrants; sometimes only a few houses are connected to the same line as the fire hydrant. That makes the pipe grossly overdimensioned and very prone to fill with sediment and lime scale. You can have 1 inch of diameter left of a 4 inch pipe, with the rest being lime. The lime varies between sort of yellowish white to brown coloured with radial striations formed by the way the crystals grew and different rust concentrations oriented in a polar direction like tree-rings. Colour varies by how much dust was kicked up. If a pipe is cleaned (pigging, flushing after a new installation or repair, water jetting etc) or just somebody uses a fire hydrant and kicks loose a bunch of rust by increasing the water spead locally, some of this rust will make it downstream to houses and you get a thin brown line in the tree-ring style growth pattern.
Minute Earth did a video about lead pipes, and how these mineral deposits from hard water will build up on the sides of the pipes and vastly reduce the amount of lead leeching into the water supply. Despite their gross look, they protect you from lead pipes, which are still common, and a lot of recent water poisoning events (including Flint) are from this mineral layer dissolving. While those pipes weren't lead, perhaps upstream/up-pipe it is lead, and the fact those mineral deposits are forming might be *why* it is safe to drink.
"Self proclaimed expert" Bet ya if I requested numbers all those wemon have a restraining order and a no contact order on ya. I believe ya more of a "Female harrasser expert"
1. The pitting is that area which was the rust, now removed. 2. Electrolysis is the other key factors. It was common to ground the fuse box and later the breaker box to the water pipe. Not to mention the corrositvity pH, hardness, etc.
I live in near Vancouver, Wa and that's the way our well water makes steel pipes look at our house also. We have a lot of iron in our water. If straight well water is left in a bucket or bowl for a day or 2 it turns orange. We have a couple of outside faucets for the garden and flower beds that's just well water before it goes through the filter and softener to the house.
Ive been telling my gf I refuse to drink tap water and she always called me spoiled or whatever and I showed her this and now she's finally off my back about it thank you love you guys
An easy mnemonic for remembering the difference between stalagmites and stalactites is that the one spelled with a 'g' grows from the 'g'round up, and the one spelled with a 'c' grows from the 'c'eiling down. Edit: Like Stan Hillen said down below when replying to Prairie Climber, I just noticed. He gets the credit.
It's not contaminated. it just looks gross. It's just some minerals that are in the water anyway. They just accumulate in the pipes. In some old houses it's actually good because back in the day they used lead pipes. The minerals in the pipe reduce the contact of the water with the lead of the pipe so the lead content in the water is not as high as it would be in a "clean" pipe.
Well, that why we only use PVC pipes in Europe. From where im from (Central Portugal) is actually pretty normal for us to drink directly from the pipe without filtering, in fact the water actually taste better than bottled water. In my entire life, i never actually saw my mother buying a liter of water on the supermarket for home consumption.
Once helped my mate to seal up a factory old main water pipe. It had been used for decades, something like 10" diameter. There was at least 5cm thick crust on the inside.. Didn't test if it was soft or hard but i'm guessing fairly hard.. Mate said that it is fairly normal buildup and to not think about the municipal water pipes...
I actually had a funny science teacher when I was at school 20 years ago and he told us "you want to be taking a ladies tights down" Probably wouldn't get away with that these days but that's how I have remembered over the years
I used to work for a water well drilling company and it was hilarious how people would tell us how “great tasting” their well water was and nine times out of ten their pipes would look identical to this if not worse lol
I'm pretty sure the pitting is caused by spots where the galvanisation deteriorated first, og got scraped by something perhaps, and that's where the rust started forming, and just keeps infecting the material in a crater like structure, just like pitting on normal metal that's heavily rusted
If you guys saw the things I've seen, you'd never want to drink straight tap water again. The big water lines under ground get the exact same buildup pattern/ lumps but they're just bigger. I never really asked why it forms like that. I mostly do water and air pipeline work at ski resorts for snowmaking but I've done domestic water lines too and after what I've cut apart and ripped out of the ground definitely made me think twice. We don't even bother trying to cut that steel with a torch, we just crank up the welder and cut it with welding rod lol
I bought a house with an amalgamation of galvanized, cpvc, copper and black iron. I ripped it all out on a Friday and replumbed the house with pex, added a 2nd water heater and added a hot water recirc line and was done by Sunday.
We do plumbing and heating in MN, and some of the supply lines to houses that old have lead pipes coming into them, and change to copper in the house after the meter. You would still be fine though because those minerals seal out the lead.
The water is perfectly safe to drink even though there is rust and mineral deposits on the inside of the pipe. The only problem is, that there more deposits on the inside the lower the dynamic pressure will be and the less water will come out the tap.
Actually the “gross stuff” on those pipes protects the water passing though from pulling dangerous shit from the pipe, primarily lead particles from lead pipes. The reason Flint’s water had a lot of lead was because that film, which developed over multiple years, was damaged due to lack of adding certain chemicals to the water when the water source was switched. Watch “Poisoned Water” on PBS, explains it better than my comment.
In most cases this is not what your drinking pipes look like, unless you live in a very old house that still has galvanized steel pipes to distribute drinking water, even when purchasing a older house an inspector will red flag these pipes . Unfortunately in some areas there is a lack of corrosion control such as phosphate, so in the worst case scenario it would be lead you're drinking.
5:29 29$ for a little sheet of copper cut into shape, are you kidding me?! Helping people my ass, abusing the situation to earn money fits better. (1$ = 0,92€) You can buy a whole kg of copper in sheetform (27€, I checked the prices) for that price and make 25~50 pieces in cuts. (I have an object, which is out of copper in similar shape and size) That would mean that you try to get out of 0,5€ ~ 1€ per piece for copperprice, 28€ simply for the cut. Thats 28/1 ratio. Now imagine if 1000 pieces get sold: 1000€ for the copper, 28.000€ for the cuts. I could buy a brandnew cnc-machine, if I sell 1000 pieces xD So if 1000 people want the same thing for half the price (and a different design of course), comment me here and Ill get you those xD And earn from the 15€ atleast 7€, while another company does the cut for me. Some people are simply horrible abusers.
I work for a Public Water Utility, the mineral deposits you are seeing are most likely Calcium, Sodium & magnesium. When water doesn’t move the minerals have a tendency to “Settle out” if you will and deposit onto the pipes. If your water utility company is tech savvy they will likely have a website and you can view the “CCR” or Consumer Confidence Report. It is published every year and distributed to the consumer either in a paper form or online. You will be able to see what is actually in the water you drink and any violations that they have have had.
Easy way to remember the difference between Stalactite and Stalagmite: Stalactite hangs from the ceiling, so it has to hold on tight to keep from dropping. Stalagmite pushes up from the ground. so, it needs a lot might to push up my father taught me that over 40 years ago and it has stuck ever since then
I've always remembered it this way: Mites crawl on the ground, so stalagmites form on the bottom (pointing up). That leaves stalactites, which by process of elimination means they're on the top (pointing down).
Galvanized water pipes are coated on the outside but it is bare steel inside so as the steel begins to rust there is cavitation that does wear the little holes as well as the rust flaking away over the years. But you can have clean copper pipes or plastic pex or pvc but most city water lines in the street are ductile iron or in some old city's like San Francisco they still have some hand layed brick pipes as water mains.
Here’s a helpful way to remember the difference between stalagmites and stalactites. If you imagine mites, mites crawl on the ground so stalagmites come from the ground. As for stalactites, the cracks in which the water drips through is very tight.
From a chemist: the pipe suffered from simple corrosion due to oxygen gas dissolved in the water = iron oxide, the red chunky stuff. Years ago, the internal zinc coating dissolved away and oxygen began it's work. The oxide is porous and the oxygen attacked the steel. 70 years for a galvanized carbon steel pipe in a water supply is amazing. Don't complain! Replace it all with PEX. Water with high mineral content wrecks water heaters, primarily, because the minerals precipitate out and settle to the bottom and cause excessive heating of the steel = separation of the glass liner from the steel = leaks! This is to say nothing of the electrolysis that speeds up in hot anything. BTW, iron oxide is harmless and helps your blood hemoglobin be tops for bigger better muscle performance!
That’s why that school water fountain taste so damn good
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maybe i didnt watch the whole video but HUHHH????
Amen Brother!
@@rc-pf1wq Doesn't your school have delicious brown water?
It's all them minerals :)
People pay money for mineral water yet at the same time also pay money to remove the minerals from their water.
it would seem context matters :p
I'm sure you're trying to be funny, but minerals are the enemy of pipes. The only people that say you want minerals in your home drinking water are plumbers and pipe salesmen. Things like calcium and lime cling to any tiny imperfection in the pipe (even copper and plastic) and start building up over time. It's not long before it's clogging up your pipes, your water heater, your home boiler, your dish washer, washing machines, baseboard heaters, anything that has running water going through it.
@bobwatters for drinking water yea
Consent
well I mean Asbestos is a mineral.
That water is still safe to drink, imagine what the ground looks like deep down in a well or the reservoir it comes from.
There's nothing safe about this. Most people filter their water as it comes into their home, they don't drinking it directly from the source, but if all this rust and corrosion is on the other side of the filter you're drinking it.
@@emerje0 research hard water safety. Filters only stop particles big enough to clog faucet screens. Humans have been drinking hard water since the beginning.
@@emerje0 Sam's right. From first install the pipes build up a layer of deposits and rust. There after it actually protects the pipe. Similar to the way aluminum does not "corrode" when in actually it builds a layer of corrosion that protects the rest of the aluminum below it.
@bobwatters filters really only make water LOOK good. They don't eliminate dissolved solids. I have always had iron rich water, and to small of a filter gets plugged up very fast. It's always been cheaper and easier to change out cheap cotton filters and clean faucet screens often. A water system would eliminate that issue but they are to expensive.
hard water and water with rust in it are two very diffrent things. i had a 1000L fishtank and used steel tube for a piece of my filter(bad idea i know) within a month it killed all of my fish, only when i was selling it did i notice the rusted pipe. so i did a ph test on the water with rust, it was off the chart. not to mention the dissolved metals making their way thru. this water pipe is safe for no man or fish to drink from.
The wear patterns on the inside of the pipe are due to the way the material for the pipe was produced; there's a non-uniform distribution of elements of things like nickel and carbon throughout the body of the pipe, therefor different sections will have (slightly) different levels of resistance to both the minerals in the water itself (including, obviously, the water) as well as the friction from those elements (and the water itself).
Tldr: Chemistry is why.
Also, there's rust, which isn't the same as the hardness deposits. Rust is oxidized iron (similar byproducts come from oxidization of other metals, same idea applies), so the rust you blasted away was once part of that pipe.
Thanks!
galvanized steel is coated with zinc. when the coating wears away at some point, the coating surrounding that point continues to prevent rust by sacrificing nearby zinc to the rust god Galvanos. the bare patch starts to grow in a little circle as it prefers to sacrifice zinc that is closest first. the iron starts to form rust when the bare patch is a few mm or so in diameter. that's why the pitting makes little circles. the size of the circles depends on which rust spots are oldest. when circles overlap, the corrosion will start to flake off chunks and become more irregular. the distribution of alloying elements in the steel is way more uniform than the coating and you would need magnification to see that.
first it is corrosive through oxidation
Big Mike stfu
Hecking drats. My house was made in 1952. Time to waterjet my intestines to see how the buildup is going.
Yeah you might want to check that out
my mums house was built in 1650s ...
My House is over 400 Years old. But the Pipes are Just about 50 years old and they Look Like knew thanks to very soft water.
Waterjet Channel: I’ll mail myself there as soon as possible for a follow-up cut!
Well i live in julius ceasars house so i win
“Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling, stalagmites just might get there someday.” This is how you remember the two apart.
Or simply rememver that mites like on the ground lol
The way I keep track of the two is Stalactite has a C in it, C for ceiling. While Stalagmite has a G, G for ground.
I remember it by associating the Dutch word "stalagtieten" with the word "hangtieten" (hanging/sagging boobs).
It's a bit more vulgar but it is certainly memorable.
Stalac(T)ite, Stala(M)ite. The "T" and "M" form the general shape of their respective formations.
I learned it Stalac(t)ite T= top. Once you know that stalagmite is apparent.
Lol I do plumbing and septic work believe you me odds are you've drank water thats been through pipes exactly like this and you've never noticed :)
Yeah I know
Thing is they get a LOT worse!
Fun fact, really old homes can have lead water service. (Pipe made of lead). Even when Colorado was in a drought, they were telling people in old Denver homes to flush out the pipes for two minutes before using.
95% of the time I drink bottled water. I can't stand the tap. And now I know why! LOL
@@geometricart7851 Fact is that bottled water comes straight from the tap you drink from anyways. There is nothing magical about bottled water nor is any testing done etc
"All the pipes experts out there"
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next video: "How to wash your hands thoroughly with a water jet"
Edit: wow apparently I was right
Koos Naamloos 😳
You mean "wash away" right? The most effective way to remove all germs you get while touching anything.
You won't die of Coronavirus if you do
And then they lost half of their hands
NEVER do that! You can get a high pressure injury and those are NASTY./
When your pipes have high cholesterol.
lol
Easy to remember which is which with these little sayings
Stalactite: Holds on TIGHT to the ceiling
Stalagmite: MIGHT just reach the roof someday
Prairie Climber I learned this same phrasing at Kartchner caverns in Tucson, Az!
The mights go up as the tights come down!!
C for ceiling, G for ground ;)
@@stanhillen6114 I was also gonna say that.
Stalactites hang down like tits do after some decades
Judging that my school's water tastes like iron I can only imagine whats inside the water fountain pipes... 🤢
Ours used to come out yellow
We called one of our barracks Mordor, the air smelled of mold and the blond guys had greenish hair after taking a shower. The water was always boiled before drinking
My colleagues says that our fountain gives all kinds of diseases, since it's so bad.
@@ihmejakki2731 where you from lol
@swag master Yeah we had a lot of cum water back at my school.
The flashbacks edit killed me 😂😂😂
4:40 that's face 😂
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". Heavy Homeworld's flashbacks... ❤
I was expecting astronomia and i got homeworld 😂
How did you type the comment then if you’re dead????
Wot I am a ghost sir
Hey y'all, if you do get a copper finger please be sure to not think of it as actually clean. If you open a door with it and throw it in your pocket, you're just contaminating your pocket. While copper has slight antimicrobial properties, it is NOT instantaneous.
Thank you!!! That mislead and confused hella people
Exactly! It takes copper around 4 hours to fully kill a virus. but that varies by conditions
Just make it out of silver!😂
And the virus mainly spreads from microscopic droplets that are produced when coughing, talking, sneezing, etc. You need a mask.
I'm not sure why copper has gotten a reputation for all kinds of magical properties. This seems just like a good way to look like a moron trying to open a door
Who remembers drinking out the hose as a kid
Still do
Me, still do
Me
my hose tastes like shit, the water always has a horrible plastic taste
@@joeprinsen1717 that's the best part
😆😂🤣 I absolutely *fell out* when dude started scratching his bohunkous with the CopperFinger. Neat little gadget!!
Try picking your nose with that thing.
10/10 butt slang
I'd buy a copper finger if you made it look like a middle finger. That way it has even more uses!!! I'm not kidding.
That's simply a VERY well seasoned pipe! All the chefs and cooks want their pots and pans to look like that for the ultimate flavour!
I guess this is the answer to "Why's the water brown?"
Yeah I asked him if he had brown water. And he said only if he hadn’t used the faucet in a day or so
Weight I thought it was flavoured water
@@WaterjetChannel that was high quality mineral water that he paid to get rid of... He could have bottled it and made a few bucks selling it after the video dropped
That looked like Tetanus City.
@@geometricart7851 that would be a perfect name for the bottled water
Damn I really wanted to see the pipes cleaned out even though they're junk now it would have been satisfying
hello from germany
the most of the brown stuff is just rustand it can even look worse than this
i had 1 time a 2 inch pipe that hade a hole left of 0.4 inches.
The Water is btw still save to drink if the pipe is used normaly and that water dosnt stand in the pipe for to long(1-2 weeks)
Under pressur the minerales like lime (limestone) are desolved in the warter.
The most lime is start forming if it exit the pipe (in the shower etc)
Dazu sind die Verordnungen in Deutschland sehr streng
Grüße vom Klempner
I just ordered 2 copper fingers! One for me and my wife. My wife is a RN and she is on the front lines caring for COVID-19 patients. These will come in useful for us, and we love supporting you guys.
Thank your wife for us!
Next time you're cutting a pipe or similarly hollow object, try filling it with a clear resin and letting it harden first. That should keep the waterjet from cleaning out anything inside.
and this is just your home water line.
imagine the city water line...
I use a brita filter sometimes but very often i drink austin city tap
They're terrible, they also used to use asbestos to make the old water mains
You should come to Switzerland
Some cities used a lot of asbestos cement and cast iron pipelines lots of which are still in use today, the inside of them is actually pretty clean once you saw them in half(the inside of cast iron looks dark but sample tests show that the amount of iron or rust in them isn't harmful.
You don't really want to mess with them too much because they tend to leak quite fast so most water companies just leave them be as they are harmless most of the time which is why lots of them haven't been replaced by newer materials.
Most newer built neighborhoods make use of either PVC or epoxy coated iron pipes with the latter being used for large streets or areas with high consumption etc.
The real nasty pipelines are the lead ones, there's a chance of getting lead poisoning from them which can be especially damaging for children. It's pretty rare to find them in my country of the Netherlands as they were sanitized over the years.
I suggest google searching some of the pipelines i mentioned to have a clear idea of what they look like.
ps: I know it might not be the same case in your country/region or whatever but most countries hold drinking water to a high standard as to prevent people from getting sick.
and the liberals wanted to spin the grey water back into the supply lines
Good side: you'll never have iron deficiency
Bad side: tetanus is gonna make you do cosplay of the golden gate bridge
You don't get tetanus from rust.
That's definitely the most unique description of tetanus I've heard
lickkermit then what do you get it from
Men don't need iron at all unless they bleed a LOT. Men on average have all the iron their body will need from the age of 10 or so. In fact excessive iron is very toxic to the body
@@godnguns9296 bacteria commonly found in soil. Hence the association with rust: step on a nail you should get a tetanus shot, incidentally the nail is probably rusty since it's been outside and on the ground. The rust has nothing to do with the cause of the disease but is quite likely to be present on dirty objects.
To be honest, this looks exactly like the mineral water wells in Germany look like. Of course there the minerals are way bigger and look like what actual spa decoration would look like. But still, same colors and textures. Apparently those mineral wells bring you the cleanest and healthiest water you can get. BUT - those minerals are also the reason for when you dont have your water running for a while, you get orange water first, because the minerals dried and became "mineral dust". The orange water you shouldn't drink, because it can contain too much iron. But as long as the water runs through minerals and stays transparent its perfectly fine.
I like how he touches everything else then he picks his nose with it.
Michael Benoit then he wonders why hes stuffy probabaly 😂😂
SNORTIN DAT RED DUST
kinda defeats the purpose of keeping viruses away from your nose and mouth...
Crap... My house was built in 53 and still has some galvanized pipe leading to our well tank. I installed a 5 micron filter to collect the rust and keep it out of our water, but looks like I'm going to need to replace those soon!
You guys know that happens in all pipes and actually helps keep the water safe from any lead inside the pipes. In flint they were fine until they switched to river water that was too hard for the pipes, the pipes were fine before because they were coated with the build up but they water broke that down exposing the lead pipes to the water causing the contamination
We have hard water here in N Indiana also. I think you're correct about it being cavitation. Have you ever noticed that in very old buildings you can hear the water pipes knocking and groaning? It must be because of the high pressures caused by the almost completely clogged pipes.
5% of the comments: stuff about pipes
THE ENTIRE OTHER 95%: StALaGtiTes gO DoWn Bla BLa blA
Stali(C)tite: C for Ceiling,
Stala(G)mite: G for Ground.
Is steel piping allowed for water supply? In what country on earth is that the case?
USA
It used to be. this was galvanized.
Almost every country in the entire world has used steel pipes for water supplies. LOL
Literally, all countries to this day have galvanized piping for water supplies at one point or another. Some even have lead piping still.
Sure most builds now use all copper. In the uk at least
That's pitting corrosion. Rust, lime scale, oxides etc reduce further oxidation for most of the pipe (soft and acidic water is corrosive; hard water is less corrosive, but if it's too hard it deposits on the inside of the pipe). You still get local sites that happen to be less protected, have some defect or whatever and these become anodes, while the rest of the pipe becomes the cathode. These pits form that rust preferentially and protect other areas of the pipe (same way galvanization works to protect the pipe, except the pits in your pipe become the sacrificial anode) and it looks pockmarked like moon craters.
In parts of the US where there is still a lot of lead piping and lead service lines they even harden the water or add ortophosphates etc to the water to deliberately create some scale to form on the inside of lead pipes and reduce corrosion. This scale prevents toxic levels of lead from getting into the drinking water (until someone fucks up, e.g. when Flint Michigan switched water source and neglected to treat the water properly).
That pipe doesn't even look *that* bad in terms of how much gunk is deposited on the inside, but it's pretty badly corroded. It's fairly common to have 4 inch cast iron pipe for fire hydrants; sometimes only a few houses are connected to the same line as the fire hydrant. That makes the pipe grossly overdimensioned and very prone to fill with sediment and lime scale. You can have 1 inch of diameter left of a 4 inch pipe, with the rest being lime. The lime varies between sort of yellowish white to brown coloured with radial striations formed by the way the crystals grew and different rust concentrations oriented in a polar direction like tree-rings. Colour varies by how much dust was kicked up. If a pipe is cleaned (pigging, flushing after a new installation or repair, water jetting etc) or just somebody uses a fire hydrant and kicks loose a bunch of rust by increasing the water spead locally, some of this rust will make it downstream to houses and you get a thin brown line in the tree-ring style growth pattern.
the rust just adds an extra flavor to the water, and if purifies... delicious water...
amen
Minute Earth did a video about lead pipes, and how these mineral deposits from hard water will build up on the sides of the pipes and vastly reduce the amount of lead leeching into the water supply.
Despite their gross look, they protect you from lead pipes, which are still common, and a lot of recent water poisoning events (including Flint) are from this mineral layer dissolving.
While those pipes weren't lead, perhaps upstream/up-pipe it is lead, and the fact those mineral deposits are forming might be *why* it is safe to drink.
As a pipe laying expert, I can tell you it’s def the hammer effect getting deep in those holes
"Self proclaimed expert"
Bet ya if I requested numbers all those wemon have a restraining order and a no contact order on ya.
I believe ya more of a "Female harrasser expert"
This man lays the pipe
@@Assault_corgi You win the 'strangest comment reply' award
Assault Corgi sir this is a Wendy’s
@@Assault_corgi I lost a lot of brain cells reading this.
1. The pitting is that area which was the rust, now removed.
2. Electrolysis is the other key factors. It was common to ground the fuse box and later the breaker box to the water pipe. Not to mention the corrositvity pH, hardness, etc.
Stalactite = coming from the ceiling, It has to hang on "tight" to form
Stalagmite = coming from the ground, It needs a lot of "might" to grow up
StalaCtite: "C" for ceiling
StalaGmite: "G" for ground
I like that. Hang tight go low, gain might to grow
I live in near Vancouver, Wa and that's the way our well water makes steel pipes look at our house also. We have a lot of iron in our water. If straight well water is left in a bucket or bowl for a day or 2 it turns orange. We have a couple of outside faucets for the garden and flower beds that's just well water before it goes through the filter and softener to the house.
Tights come down and it might go up. My high school geography teacher.
I always thought of it as "Tight is holding on tight, might is pushing itself up with all of it's might/strength"
I like it when the teacher's tights come down...
I also always remember as something about wanting tights to come down.
jacko2131, that’s true, but I have one question. Why? It’s against the law for an adult to expose private parts to a minor.
Excellent use of Adagio for Strings
Me: Watches this video
Also me: Goes to drink some tap water
Wow. Aren't you special.
The way I remember Stalagmites and Stalactites is StalacTites hang Tight on the ceiling and StalagMites are mighty enough to stand up.
Ive been telling my gf I refuse to drink tap water and she always called me spoiled or whatever and I showed her this and now she's finally off my back about it thank you love you guys
Did they cut through a pipe with water??? That's so cool! I didn't know that you could do that! Water best element 😎
My house is 119 years old, I can only imagine what mine are like 0_0
your fine, yours might just be lead which is very resistant to corrosion
how many ghost you have?
@@HPD1171 Lead pipes can give you super powers too.
Or kill you.
@@presence5692 as long as the water isn't full of acidic chemicals ahem (flint mi) the lead shouldn't leak. still rather have copper pipe though.
still cleaner than a well
An easy mnemonic for remembering the difference between stalagmites and stalactites is that the one spelled with a 'g' grows from the 'g'round up, and the one spelled with a 'c' grows from the 'c'eiling down. Edit: Like Stan Hillen said down below when replying to Prairie Climber, I just noticed. He gets the credit.
"He was drinking from this until about a day ago" made me gag so hard dude, and then they cut it open and I threw up in my mouth
Haha... just wait till I lick it
Nate Conley.
It’s only rust
Then you probably shouldn't unscrew the little screen off the end of ANY faucet in your house.
Green Silver “only rust.”
I have bad news unless you filter or buy bottled water only, to an extent your water runs at one point through similar pipes.
What a horrific sight the inside of those pipes were!
The thought of putting such hideously contaminated water into one's body is unthinkable!
It's not contaminated. it just looks gross. It's just some minerals that are in the water anyway. They just accumulate in the pipes. In some old houses it's actually good because back in the day they used lead pipes. The minerals in the pipe reduce the contact of the water with the lead of the pipe so the lead content in the water is not as high as it would be in a "clean" pipe.
the water is still completly safe to drink it goes through a filter and the brown stuff is just minerals. Im a Plumber btw
Thanks for that info! Didn't know about that, very interesting! Thanks also for your service!
No I’m dirty dan.
@Francis Fulford who said he wasn't a plumber huh
nice tyler, the creator pfp
@@Jegarde nice reply to a nice comment
Well, that why we only use PVC pipes in Europe. From where im from (Central Portugal) is actually pretty normal for us to drink directly from the pipe without filtering, in fact the water actually taste better than bottled water. In my entire life, i never actually saw my mother buying a liter of water on the supermarket for home consumption.
This bald man can single handedly take down covid 19 with his extreme immune system.
Because he liked some iron?
@@segment9007 he licked a rusted bar. That looks nasty and looks like it has a shit ton of bacteria. Dont try to put any sense in this lol.
@@crimmie114 he licked the rusty mineral buildup inside the pipe. i doubt theres any bacteria in it.
@@maximumthrottle5391 I tried to make a joke. If you dont understand idk what to tell you
@@crimmie114 i understand the joke, im replying to your second comment.
Once helped my mate to seal up a factory old main water pipe. It had been used for decades, something like 10" diameter. There was at least 5cm thick crust on the inside.. Didn't test if it was soft or hard but i'm guessing fairly hard.. Mate said that it is fairly normal buildup and to not think about the municipal water pipes...
To remember which is which: "Tights go down and mites go up" Stalactites vs stalagmites
I actually had a funny science teacher when I was at school 20 years ago and he told us "you want to be taking a ladies tights down" Probably wouldn't get away with that these days but that's how I have remembered over the years
I used to work for a water well drilling company and it was hilarious how people would tell us how “great tasting” their well water was and nine times out of ten their pipes would look identical to this if not worse lol
Haha, minerals added for taste
@@WaterjetChannel Mineral water
ROFL THAT FACE AT 4:35 AND THE VIETNAM-ESQUE FLASHBACKS ARE GOLDEN!
I thought it would go to coffin dance meme
@@alvaropallete that would be funny
i just want to thank you guys for always exposing the nasty
2:00
Remember: stalactites are the ones on top because they hold on "tite"!
I lived in a house built in 1929 and had our galvanized pipes replaced in the 90’s. The kitchen hot water was all but blocked with rust.
0:59 I see there are some sparks flying 😘.
The lick flash back was a good touch
Do you think that their could be a alternate *Superman* with water jet eyes instead of laser eyes?
That copper finger is actually a solid idea An tool for pressing handles and opening door handles without touching that never needs to be cleaned
I'm pretty sure the pitting is caused by spots where the galvanisation deteriorated first, og got scraped by something perhaps, and that's where the rust started forming, and just keeps infecting the material in a crater like structure, just like pitting on normal metal that's heavily rusted
😂😂😂 I died when Mitchell uses the copperfinger to pick his nose, then immediately cuts to opening doors with it
_Licks nasty pipe_
"Aww gross!" *sips cup of tap water
Stfu
@@somedesertdude1308 no
Wtf is this salty boi tho? 🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂🧂
If you guys saw the things I've seen, you'd never want to drink straight tap water again. The big water lines under ground get the exact same buildup pattern/ lumps but they're just bigger. I never really asked why it forms like that. I mostly do water and air pipeline work at ski resorts for snowmaking but I've done domestic water lines too and after what I've cut apart and ripped out of the ground definitely made me think twice. We don't even bother trying to cut that steel with a torch, we just crank up the welder and cut it with welding rod lol
4:29 “hey google play astronomia”
copper finger looks pretty cool, useful and innovative, well done
Now I'm never using tap water again! Thanks guys. I'm gonna shower in Aquafina and cook with Fiji from now on.
Haha
I bought a house with an amalgamation of galvanized, cpvc, copper and black iron. I ripped it all out on a Friday and replumbed the house with pex, added a 2nd water heater and added a hot water recirc line and was done by Sunday.
1:20 Oh look! Kinda looks like the inside of my arteries after years of fast food..nom nom
That copper finger thing is a great idea.
U guys sounded so shocked when I heard it's from the 1950s lol. My house is from the 1880s
I bet your pipes look much better, Lead tends to hold up better than Galvanized over time.
Same here but when plumbing was put in they used copper.
We do plumbing and heating in MN, and some of the supply lines to houses that old have lead pipes coming into them, and change to copper in the house after the meter. You would still be fine though because those minerals seal out the lead.
1880s house gang
Props for using homeworld music!
It’s just mineral build up, nothing to be grossed out on
Oh Boy! Extra Flavor!
OMG I'm just glad you guys aren't making any important decisions.
The water is perfectly safe to drink even though there is rust and mineral deposits on the inside of the pipe. The only problem is, that there more deposits on the inside the lower the dynamic pressure will be and the less water will come out the tap.
Actually the “gross stuff” on those pipes protects the water passing though from pulling dangerous shit from the pipe, primarily lead particles from lead pipes. The reason Flint’s water had a lot of lead was because that film, which developed over multiple years, was damaged due to lack of adding certain chemicals to the water when the water source was switched. Watch “Poisoned Water” on PBS, explains it better than my comment.
I didn’t know you guys were located in Utah, I live like 50 minutes south of salt lake. Always fun to see local RUclips channels
5:05 how to catch all the diseases known to man in a single movement.
In most cases this is not what your drinking pipes look like, unless you live in a very old house that still has galvanized steel pipes to distribute drinking water, even when purchasing a older house an inspector will red flag these pipes . Unfortunately in some areas there is a lack of corrosion control such as phosphate, so in the worst case scenario it would be lead you're drinking.
Copper finger will be the new thing! It’ll be like masks
I believe the mineral formation at the top makes more peaks than stalagmites which are wider and rounder peaks
5:29 29$ for a little sheet of copper cut into shape, are you kidding me?! Helping people my ass, abusing the situation to earn money fits better. (1$ = 0,92€)
You can buy a whole kg of copper in sheetform (27€, I checked the prices) for that price and make 25~50 pieces in cuts. (I have an object, which is out of copper in similar shape and size)
That would mean that you try to get out of 0,5€ ~ 1€ per piece for copperprice, 28€ simply for the cut. Thats 28/1 ratio.
Now imagine if 1000 pieces get sold: 1000€ for the copper, 28.000€ for the cuts. I could buy a brandnew cnc-machine, if I sell 1000 pieces xD
So if 1000 people want the same thing for half the price (and a different design of course), comment me here and Ill get you those xD And earn from the 15€ atleast 7€, while another company does the cut for me.
Some people are simply horrible abusers.
DaimonTrilogy imagine capitalism. Damn socialist.
That copper finger is a really good idea.
I work for a Public Water Utility, the mineral deposits you are seeing are most likely Calcium, Sodium & magnesium. When water doesn’t move the minerals have a tendency to “Settle out” if you will and deposit onto the pipes. If your water utility company is tech savvy they will likely have a website and you can view the “CCR” or Consumer Confidence Report. It is published every year and distributed to the consumer either in a paper form or online. You will be able to see what is actually in the water you drink and any violations that they have have had.
Easy way to remember the difference between Stalactite and Stalagmite:
Stalactite hangs from the ceiling, so it has to hold on tight to keep from dropping.
Stalagmite pushes up from the ground. so, it needs a lot might to push up
my father taught me that over 40 years ago and it has stuck ever since then
29% off the Cu finger with code WATERJET? I see what you did there! I will purchase one just for your slyness. Well played.
I've always remembered it this way:
Mites crawl on the ground, so stalagmites form on the bottom (pointing up).
That leaves stalactites, which by process of elimination means they're on the top (pointing down).
stala(c)tites->c = ceiling
stala(g)mites->g = ground
Oh my god the adagio for strings made me spit out my tea
The adagio for strings bit. Love it
Galvanized water pipes are coated on the outside but it is bare steel inside so as the steel begins to rust there is cavitation that does wear the little holes as well as the rust flaking away over the years. But you can have clean copper pipes or plastic pex or pvc but most city water lines in the street are ductile iron or in some old city's like San Francisco they still have some hand layed brick pipes as water mains.
He had Vietnam flash backs at the end 😂😂😂
Here’s a helpful way to remember the difference between stalagmites and stalactites. If you imagine mites, mites crawl on the ground so stalagmites come from the ground. As for stalactites, the cracks in which the water drips through is very tight.
Stalactite: Hangs "tite" to the ceiling.
Stalagmite: Lives on the ground, like a mite.
Wow copper finger is brilliant
From a chemist: the pipe suffered from simple corrosion due to oxygen gas dissolved in the water = iron oxide, the red chunky stuff. Years ago, the internal zinc coating dissolved away and oxygen began it's work. The oxide is porous and the oxygen attacked the steel. 70 years for a galvanized carbon steel pipe in a water supply is amazing. Don't complain! Replace it all with PEX. Water with high mineral content wrecks water heaters, primarily, because the minerals precipitate out and settle to the bottom and cause excessive heating of the steel = separation of the glass liner from the steel = leaks! This is to say nothing of the electrolysis that speeds up in hot anything. BTW, iron oxide is harmless and helps your blood hemoglobin be tops for bigger better muscle performance!