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[Alaskan]

ours isn't that, as you guessed, but another post-war quick and dirty material: asbestos cement. Since they are replacing the broken bits with a plastic pipe that fits inside, I was thinking the same thing about replacement. Though of course now it would snag at every repair - and there's loads of them!

The first house I owned .... down in Texas, had those WW2 pipes, we called them tar paper pipes.

Whatever... had to dig them all out and replace them.

 

[Perris]

The first house I owned .... down in Texas, had those WW2 pipes, we called them tar paper pipes.

Whatever... had to dig them all out and replace them.

I suspect our water board will resist that unless and until they are forced to by the regulator or someone else with authority over them.