How To Clean Up Copper Pipes

Ill show you how I clean and buff copper pipes and joints so they look shin.

How to clean up copper pipes. TURN YOUR WATER HEATER OFF. Its most commonly found in pennies but is also used in jewelry cookware and other products that people use every day. Mix fine grain salt with enough vinegar to form a paste.

Start by cutting a lemon in half and dipping it in salt. 14 cup table salt. Reichert does a 7525 ratio with three times as much lemon to salt.

It looks like there was some minor seepage in places but now looks sealed up compression fittings mostly but a little bit on solder work too. Worst case scenario youll have to replace them. Copper is a beautiful burnished-gold color when it is clean and well maintained but like all metals copper can become discolored when exposed to air and water.

The copper pipe came from a factory wash rooms I am sure only soapy water has been through them they are old pipe but really solid and in good nick just got this green oxidation on the inside I put some flux cleaning salts through a pipe to day and it removed the oxidisation quite easily after leaving for half hour came up like new but these cleaning salts are expensive one of the. Dip a cloth into the solution and wipe the copper. Copper is a metal used in many household materials such as pipes home hardware and doorknobs.

Exposed copper pipes can be a gorgeous feature but they can also end up tarnished or corroded. You may be wondering why we will be using a water heater to clean out the scale in the plumbing. This video will go through the homemade solutions to cleaning corrosion from copper pipe.

Sep 8 2012 3 Brasso or T-Cut. Status Not open for further replies. Cleaning Off Oxidized Copper Pipe.