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Straightening copper pipe is easy enough in the small (8mm) pipe as long as it's not for show. I've never used the larger sizes but I guess it would be easy enough to accidentally kink it. If it's going in an exposed area I'd stick with copper in pipe form, otherwise why not plastic.
Vibration is often a washer. It would be an electric shower where it's not so straightforward to check and repair though!
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I made a side table out of copper pipe last week. I tried to use a roll of 10mm pipe the first time but found it impossible to get perfectly straight.
It was very easy to get straight enough for practical plumbing purposes though. I just unwound onto the floor and rolled it under foot. As Airhead says, not easy to get straight enough to be on show...
I gave up on the coil and bought straight pipes instead.
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Copper pipe, bought on a roll, how easy is it to straighten it?
And, unrelated, noisy pipes, getting worse. Happens when the toilet is flushed. Really loud now. It's mitigated a bit by running the cold tap in the kitchen. The pipe in the bathroom that seems to be the cause looks to be the cold water one which feeds into the electric shower. It vibrates like a madman.