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Slumlord - Please help
While your landlord seems to be an AH, any home can have mice, no matter how well it's kept up. In my previous home (fairly rural) which my wife and I kept pretty clean, one year we just got nailed ...
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Corrosion on pipe?
Looks like the flux from soldering was not cleaned off throughly, and then the pipe was painted.
Scrub it clean (which will take poorly attached paint) and possibly use a bit of sodium bicarbonate to ...
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Turned on a valve, discovered water leaking through basement ceiling
If that is now a "dead leg", then you should cap it off at the closest point to its supply line.
Dead legs, or pipe runs that go nowhere, can be the source of contamination etc and need to ...
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