01-31-2008, 04:38 AM
I don't think copper is supposed to be buried is it? We put in copper in our house since PVC gets brittle after a few years but that was before the price of copper went through the roof. It is all above ground installation, too.
Building for resale value seems an odd way to build a house. It is really hard to predict what the buyer will want when they look at a house so if it were me building the house, I'd build the best house I could although there are always a lot of compromises made when building. One can only build the "best" house when money is no object and one still has to define "best". One would think that a well built house will always have resale value although what that value may be is unknown. There's always "location, location, location", too!
If I were buying a house, I'd much prefer copper over any sort of plastic.
Building for resale value seems an odd way to build a house. It is really hard to predict what the buyer will want when they look at a house so if it were me building the house, I'd build the best house I could although there are always a lot of compromises made when building. One can only build the "best" house when money is no object and one still has to define "best". One would think that a well built house will always have resale value although what that value may be is unknown. There's always "location, location, location", too!
If I were buying a house, I'd much prefer copper over any sort of plastic.
Kurt Wilson