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MrLugs
Explorer
Nov 02, 2015

A funny thing happened when I winterized my RV (story)

Well this is our new to us A class that we've had for about 8 weeks now. We had a c-class for 16 years so we know our way around an RV.... so we thought. We also knew it was a fixer upper and were pre...
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gbopp
Explorer
Nov 03, 2015
willi4nd wrote:
jsmart wrote:
We have an older class A, what would make the pipes brittle like the op describes.


Chlorine breaks down PEX over time, causing it to become brittle.

Sunlight also breaks it down but in the case of RV's this is most likely not the cause

Maybe the builder received a bad lot of plastic pipe? Usually very little chlorine used to sanitize the water system.
And, the amount in a municipal water system shouldn't harm the plastic pipe. JMO

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