Dielectric Union Leaking

Unions rather than 3 4 copper female so as it would be easier to take out if.

Dielectric union leaking.

You have lived a very sheltered life my friend. I decided on the d. 3 slide the union nut onto the 3 4 inch copper pipe that you are going to connect to the heater with its threads. If the union is joining copper and galvanized steel pipes it should be a dielectric union.

Pennstate university s experts have noted dielectric union fittings may be leak prone. Their experience is that simply tightening th union fitting is not a durable repair. If so it has a rubber washer inside and may be leaking because the washer is cracked or worn. Things earlier today were going just peachy put in a full port ball valve sweated the joints and tightened down the nut on the dielectric unions.

Every single union fails miserably by either leaking clogging up completely rusting to pieces with no water contact outside pipe or depositing rust in water. I am a licensed plumber for 20 plus years. When i started it was code to install dielectric unions everywhere in houses where copper connects to steel. One example of a gasketed union is a thread by thread dielectric union used on gas systems.

Leak at dielectric union. Under no circumstances will proclaimliberty2000 be responsible or liable in any way for any content including but not limited to any errors or. In addition all flanged unions used on larger pipe sizes are gasketed. Hello tomorrow will be day 2 in my venture to change out a water heater.