installing home water piping which is better, copper or stainless steel?
Copper. When My Husband And I Bought Our House We Got The Stainless Steel. Which Wasn't Such A Good Idea. It Ruined Everything. And We Actually Had 2 Bursts In 3 Months. And On Top Of All That It Was A New House. We Got The Copper And We Haven't Had Any Problems For 9 Months. ]
Unless you are going to do all the cutting, threading, piping, and hook ups yourself, the cost for installation of stainless steel pipe would be so high, because every piece of pipe has to be threaded and screwed together. Although the stainless steel pipe would last longer, the installation costs would be triple that of copper. I know that copper is at all time highs, right now, but the stainless pipe is still twice as expensive. I'm not sure, but I think that you need special dies to thread the stainless steel pipe. Stainless pipe comes unthreaded, therefore, every piece of pipe you will need, has to be threaded first. Back when labor prices were cheap, all residential piping was done with galvanized steel pipe. This is when plumbers made $1.00 an hour. Nowadays, plumbers average anywhere from $15-$35 an hour, so it isn't very cost effective to have this type of piping installed. I have only seen it used in commercial applications, that pass the cost on to consumers. I hope this answers your question! Good luck!
Copper is by far the more reliable product at a more economical price. If you are concerned about looks with exposed piping, say for the toilet supply or if you have a pedestal sink, you could use copper for all of your supply lines, and then just use ss for the stub-outs.
it's hard to judge based on the smell, however, if I saw this, I'd assume the clutches inside the automatic transmission were slipping, causing the transmission itself to overheat (yeah, transmissions can overheat, and it's often overlooked) Changing the fluid now is a 50/50 shot of saving it. After it's burned, it really starts to build up a varnish coating on everything, the new fluid will do it's job and eliminate that varnish and can cause catastrophic leaks of the internal seals inside the transmission making it completely fail.
It is not okay to put power steering fluid in the transmission but it is however okay in some vehicles to put transmission fluid into the power steering system.
