Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Pipes: cast iron vs. PVC

[coho (coho]

What kind of insulation did you use?

--Diane(:^]
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> Our toilet to septic plumbing is all with PVC pipes and we don't have any
> noise problems that I know of.  One thing that we did to mitigate any
> potential noise problems was to insulate all internal walls containing
> septic plumbing adjacent to public rooms (external walls are of course
> insulated anyway).  Maybe that prevented the problem.
>
> - Mac
>
> --
> Mac Thomson
>
> Heartwood Cohousing
> Southwest Colorado
> http://www.heartwoodcohousing.com
>
> "The most beautiful thing one can experience is the mysterious.  It is the
> source of all true art and science.  He to whom this reaction is a
> stranger
> -- who no longer can pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe -- is as good
> as
> dead, his eyes are closed."
>            -- Albert Einstein
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>
> On 06/01/03 Diane Simpson wrote:
>> I have recently heard about noise issues connected with PVC pipes in
>> some cohousing developments and I was wondering if any of you in
>> coho-land who have these kind of pipes would care to comment on this
>> issue. Are they really noisier than cast-iron pipes? A lot noiser or
>> just a tiny bit? Have you had to change any of your activities of daily
>> living to compensate for this? How many of you think they are better
>> than cast-iron pipes? Why?
>
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