Another Plumbing/Heating Question
Hi everyone, I'm moving some of my hot water baseboard heating around. I wanted to just un-sweat some of the joints and pull them apart, but even after draining the system, there it still water in the pipes. I can't get the joints hot enough to pull apart. I keep having to resort to cutting the pipe and draining the remianing water to then remove the joints. I'm also using mapp gas (which I thought would do the trick), not just regular propane. How do professionals deal with this? Is there some kind of trick that plumbers use, or are their torches that much hotter than even the mapp gas that they can do this? Or do they also have to cut into the pipes to get all of the water out before being able to sweat or un-sweat joints. I've used the bread in the pipe trick when sweating a new joint that may still have some water in the pipe on either end of the joint, but how do you get existing joints apart without having to cut? Someone please tell me! Thanks, Jon
try blowing the water out of the system first with an air compressor.