Welcome to Dr Rohr
Are you already drinking stainless?
The problem
Brown water, pressure drop, pipe breakage: And that's just the beginning: with a conventional replacement of the water pipes, the whole house becomes a construction site - without water for weeks, but with lots of noise, dirt and stress. Not to mention the high costs for plumber, bricklayer, painter, tiler, plasterer, floor layer, etc.
The symptoms
Brown water: interpreting signs correctly
Honestly: Would you like to take a bath with brown water running out of the tap? To brush your teeth with it every morning and then make a coffee with it?
It is true that drinking water in most regions of Europe is of above-average quality. But before you can enjoy it, it first flows through many pipes - and they are rarely fresh and clean, but mostly calcified and rusty. So limescale and rust end up in your drinking water very quickly, even if you don't always see them at first glance.
It is just as annoying when the water no longer bubbles vigorously due to deposits in the pipe, but flows out of the tap with less and less pressure.
With a heavily encrusted water pipe, sooner or later there will inevitably be a burst pipe - and that means a lot of trouble and costs.
The cause
Rust and limescale in drinking water
It is a well-known fact that most metals rust when they come into contact with water. But what few people know: Over 70% of all water pipes are affected. Rust and limescale have accumulated inside them over the years, contaminating the water that passes through and reducing the flow.
Sooner or later, the deposits permanently damage the structure of the pipes, whether wide or narrow, made of copper, zinc or steel.