Plastic plumbing is back – now being touted as a “green” product. But only a 25-year warranty?
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Plenty of Detroit river noise and that was not even rush hour, was it?
PEX has been in use in Phoenix since at least 2001. Easy to work with and it doesn’t get stolen like copper does. All the big builders use it now. We will probably have to wait the 25 years to learn about the health risks.
I don’t know about Hovnanian in San Diego, but in Phoenix they use the cheapest materials and the workmanship is pretty shoddy based on what I have seen. The windows are the worst junk I have ever seen used by a mainline builder, and the ones in this video don’t look any better.
The freeway noise is the deal breaker here.
Price wouldn’t fix it for me. The freeway noise is a complete deal breaker for me. Imagine what it would sound like during rush hour…
Amazing. My Ex has our original house near Balboa Park. It was built in 1912 and had its original steel pipe replaced in the early 60’s with copper throughout. It still functions like the day it was installed. Unless the “plastic” is pure PTFE with maybe Kynar fittings, don’t expect it to stay dry inside those walls. What a joke trying to scare people with that lame “no torches” display!
Jim, Right-on about the noise. Why do most people just look at houses during the day? If you’re serious about a house, go there late at night, get out of your car and just walk up and down the street. Listen. See how many cars are now parked along the sidewalk once everybody’s home from work, etc. Just sayin’.
And of course an additional benefit of copper water reticulation pipes is that the traces of copper that find their way into the potable water kill plant life like nas etcty algaes. In the US in the old days they used copper sulphate to purify utility supplied drinking water whilst the British used chlorine for the same purpose.
That’s interesting: plastic pipes and stainless steel appliances. That makes a lot of sense.
I like their decorator’s work. It looks like there’s finally going to be life beyond beige–a good thing. There’s a bit too much unrelieved blue, but the basic creme-dark wood-deep blue color scheme is something I’d like to experiment with eventually. I love the stair tiles, although I can see that becoming an issue with resale.
Supposedly the life of pex pipes is about 50 years. Note that pex pipes supposedly have been used in Europe since 1970, so we have 40 years of experience with them there. Now the plumbing model is different in that all pipes connect to a manifold in a home run manner, and one can minimize the number of elbows and the like, if one can make slow turns with the piping. Note that today some insurance companies require re-doing plumbing and electrical at 40 years although its not clear exactly what that means.
Boy, that’s loud! 1/2 sold? I guess it tells you something about the power of shiny and new.
Rush hour traffic wouldn’t be that bad since half the traffic lanes are crawling at 15mph. Imagine the evenings and weekends when you’re at home enjoying your postage stamp patio and cars are flying by at 80. That’s the noise that makes you a regretful buyer. Bring on the concrete noise barriers and water features!
Could be worse. It could have been a highway full of REO Speedwagons! With horns blaring! 🙂
But really. It’s a city highway! It’ll always have traffic! And it’ll always be noisy! There’s no way out of it no matter how many noise barriers you install!
Not to mention that they are about to expand I-5, which will put those lanes even closer to the property!
It always amazes me what things people will put up with to get a view of blue ocean water. Especially when you can see it for free from the freeway.