It depends where you descale from and where the lead pipes are, but absolutely yes. In my case the lead is only feeding to the house and I would have my polyphosphate filter running about 15 feet after that so the only way it would seep back is long periods of stagnation or if the city pipes depressurized. Everything inside my structure but not going through the foundation (why I haven’t replaced it) is copper.
That’s basically what happened in flint Michigan. They changed the water supply which changed the ph, which de-scaled the lead pipes.
I have the reverse osmosis unit installed though for any consumed water (drinking, cooking, pets, anquariums) and that definitely would filter out lead. It’s as safe as I can manage here.
If you have an older home and you descale the pipes could you expose yourself to lead?
It depends where you descale from and where the lead pipes are, but absolutely yes. In my case the lead is only feeding to the house and I would have my polyphosphate filter running about 15 feet after that so the only way it would seep back is long periods of stagnation or if the city pipes depressurized. Everything inside my structure but not going through the foundation (why I haven’t replaced it) is copper.
That’s basically what happened in flint Michigan. They changed the water supply which changed the ph, which de-scaled the lead pipes.
I have the reverse osmosis unit installed though for any consumed water (drinking, cooking, pets, anquariums) and that definitely would filter out lead. It’s as safe as I can manage here.