Eric Stone
Copper vs pex resale
First time home buyer in Southern California!! I have old 1954 galvanized plumbing and I am planning on doing a repipe. Just wondering if anyone has experience on whether copper or pex can affect resale value. Thanks...
Jeff Sheraton
Preventing copper wire theft
Does anyone have any creative ideas to prevent copper wire theft? We have had a few houses get hit (always while they are vacant). Thieves will steal copper plumbing and wires. We always replace plumbing with pex, ...
Jerryll Noorden
Copper or AL wiring.
Hello everyone.Any pointers on finding out if wiring in a house is Copper or AL?Owner said that when they bought the house 30 years ago they redid the wiring.Do you all think it is AL it being 30 years ago?
Michael S.
Leaking Copper Pipe in Slab
looking at potentially a disaster of a situation regarding copper pipes inside concrete slab.-Home is 10 years old-Copper pipe inside the concrete slab had a leak.-Pinpoint leak was found (after digging through severa...
Jordan Bateman
AC and Copper Theft Issues
I've had two condenser units on two different houses stolen (one was just the copper) in the last few weeks. It's very frustrating as you know, and always seems to happen when the house is for sale.
I've read through...
Michael Hooper
Aluminum to Copper Wire Conversion
I'm currently looking at a 32 unit apartment complex (all 1 bedrooms) in Cincinnati Ohio. We're in the middle of our due diligence process and we just found out the complex has all aluminum wiring. From what i underst...
Doug Woodward
HVAC Copper in the Hood
We have the HVAC unit in a cage with chains around it as well, but there is still the exposed copper from the unit to the house. With freon and a new weld for the copper, it is going to run us $900.We have the house u...
Sai T.
Grounding cold water copper pipe
I’m installing the ceiling drywall and found the cold water copper pipe line is going below the joist, but its a end cap pipe (from the bathroom cold water line) is touching the cold water grounded copper wire (...
Dené Sellers
First Deal in the hopper
After reading the below information if you think this is an unwise move, please speak freely. Hi my name is Dene and I have a opportunity to assume a VA 55 plus below market by about 30k. The owner asked me for a sma...
Inderpal Chadha
Aluminium wiring and copper connectors
HelloWe just rehabbed a property and is currently under contract. It turns out that the place has aluminium wiring and the inspector has asked to use copper connectors. I have come across this http://www.cpsc.gov//Pag...