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I bought a ball valve that is designed to be sweat (soldered) into my copper plumbing, but won’t the heat from the soldering process damage the seal around the ball valve? How does one avoid that?

I have fairly new copper plumbing and a two year old tankless water heater and I am having a problem with a sediment containing black, white and grey particals cloging my shower head and my bath tub filler. I even had to clean out the hot valve itself on the bath tub. I have allready instaled a sediment filter where the main comes into the house and it didn’t help.

I have a friend who has a home that has copper plumbing. The residence was built in 1988, and she was told by a neighbor that copper plumbing is bad and has to be removed/replaced in order to keep the value of the home for resale. This doesn’t seem to make sense and the home DOES NOT have any plumbing issues to date. The neighbor cautioned that copper plumbing can burst. Is there any ring of truth to this or is the neighbor thinking of something else. A home built in 1988 doesn’t seem that old to me.
Please help. All answers are welcome. Thanks.
Additional details. Here is the suspected issue:

Different metals or types of pipe: copper and galvanized iron, were directly connected in the potable water supply system

From this point of view, we are told the entire plumbing in the home needs to be changed. Can this be right?

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