6 Jun
2004
6 Jun
'04
7:01 a.m.
He's lucky! They use copper around here and about ten years ago they
started coming out with some kind of very thin wall stuff. Houses have
been
springing leaks left and right! My mother-in-law has
had about six major
leaks in the last five years. They've had to tear big holes in the walls
to
get to the leaks to fix them (not to mention the water
damage). The
plumbers have told her that the next time it happens that she needs to
have
the entire house replumbed. One brand new house in my
mother's area was
condemmed due to the number of leaks and the amount of damage that they
caused.
I'm not critisizing copper pipe, that's what I have. But there have
been
a LOT of problems with it in this area in the last
ten years or so due to
the poor quality of the pipe.
Joe
I seem to remember a class-action suit about this pipe. Might be worth
checking into.
bm