State Specific Question About: TENNESSEE (TN)

What is considered newer plumbing? I have seen ads where people are trying to sell there homes and one of the statemenbts will say, "Home has newer plumbing." Well what exactly does that mean? New pipes in the walls? Newer fixtures on sinks and tubs? What?

Exactly as James stated.

Sometimes a homeowner or realtor will claim "newer plumbing" when they renovate a bathroom while the remaining plumbing remains untouched and in poor condition.

John

If the house is not "newer' then yes it would imply the house was re-piped at some point in the recent past. If the re-pipe job were completed last week... the ad would say "new piping".

Thing to watch out for is if the whole complete job was done or not. Quite often owners are cheap idiots and will only replace the parts that are easy to get to and leave the original material throughout. This is (often) worse than doing nothing.

Technically, anything done after the house was originally built could be considered "newer". House built in 1950? Added a new sink in the garage in 1951? Well, that's "newer" than the original...

I just posted so let me copy-n-paste here about inspection today, --> Galv. pipe makes good drains but degrades as a supply line like everyone else has said, if your hubby uses pex often he prolly knows about the improved collar offered by zurn that grips over more than one barb and is stainless steel rather than the brass ones corroding in the 5 states on the west coast with the class action lawsuit going on. Also saw another inspector this morning who commented on recent inspections he had to return after the crew removed the drywall so he could see and verify the retaining clips every 5 feet as required in almost every building code, there are some who take a shortcut while installing the pipe and just string it loosely into the walls without any support - the beginners who don't want to follow directions was his comment, I passed mine as usual.