The characteristics of drinking water directly depend on the quality of polypropylene pipes installed in the apartment. Therefore, when choosing them, you need to be extremely careful. After all, the health of family members living in the apartment is a far -haired factor.
Unfortunately, tough competition in the market of polypropylene pipes led to the fact that manufacturers began to reduce prices for them by saving on materials. As a result, recently, the indicator of their quality has fallen very much. Pipes made of low -grade polypropylene began to appear on sale. At the same time, many unscrupulous manufacturers mislead their customers false information about their characteristics.
Therefore, when buying these products, you need to try to determine the quality of the material from which they are made. The best solution will be pre -purchase a small piece of the pipe and test it at home. First of all, it will need to be cut. Thus determine how expensive the material was used in the manufacture. If caves and sinks are visible on the cut, buying such products is not recommended. After all, it is not known what exactly they were made. Firstly, the components of cheap materials can be harmful to health. And secondly, a pipe with such defects is unlikely to last long enough.
The second test, which is good to conduct is to try to solder polypropylene pipes back. If at least some smell is felt when heated, the pipe is not of high quality and it should not be bought. The store must pay attention to the characteristics of the connecting elements. They should not be too light, even if the manufacturer calls this design with a beautiful word “optimization”. This is actually just saving.
And the most important thing. In no case can you purchase transparent products, even despite the fact that this is the cheapest option today. The thing is that all kinds of microbes and bacteria are catastrophically quickly divorced in them. This will happen in any case. Even when the pipe is drawn in the box. A small enough plot lit by the sun, for example, in a place, connecting with the tap, so that the infection spreads along its entire length. In world practice, even cases with death due to the fault of a dangerous bacterium, called Legionella, living precisely in transparent polypropylene pipes are known. This microorganism is really very dangerous.
Thus, paying attention to the degree of transparency of the pipe and having a small test, you can protect yourself from a number of completely unnecessary problems.
