CPVC Piping

Do all the homes in South (Courtyard Models) have CPVC Piping? Recently had a home inspection and thought I'd ask. Haven't heard anything negative about CPVC piping but was kind of suprised to see plastic instead of copper in these newer homes.

 

can you be a little more specific? Do you mean that all the pipes in your home are plastic and not copper?

I would find that to be impossible... and what I mean is that I thought at least around some joints and connections, they had to be copper. Speaking about my model (Fitzgerald II) I have both. For the Hose bib runs, there is copper around the valves but all long pieces are PVC (Flo Guard Gold). This stuff is good and works well. Copper of course in the last few years has increased exponentially in cost... that may also what influences its use, or not. So, I think part of the answer is that it is normal design.

 

I'm assuming it's most piping is CPVC, I'm in a Courtyard home. While getting the home inspection completed in the crawl/storage space under the house, found the main water pipe into the house was of course copper. At the main water cutoff valve, as far as I could see it was all CPVC piping in all directions into the house. I figure it's part of the normal design and all the Courtyard homes were built with the CPVC but not sure so thought I'd ask.

Neil

 

Here is a dumb question.What exactly is a Courtyard home?

 

Brian - I thought you live in one? A Courtyard home. Van Metre designed several Groups/classes of Single family homes: Estate, Classic, Parkside, Courtyard. Within each group were several models: Estate (Thoreau), Classic (Fitzgerald), Parkside (Parkdale, Aspen) and Courtyard (not sure of the models off the top of my head)

But you get the idea. Many of the Courtyard homes just off Claiborne across from model home court do not have basements. Some do.

 

I think we do live in one. I am just not sure what constitutes one.

 

FWIW ... if they're using CPVC, then they really started to cut corners, as my old Winterset (and I suspect all of the other Parkside models on Marsh Creek) were done completely in copper.

 

For what it's worth, I find CPVC to be a LOT quiter than copper.

 

CPVC plastic is a good pipe and easy to work with and repair and no chance to burn your house down

Lee j

 

Noon, Lee, and others--

Here is an interesting article from the May/June 2003 Smart Homeowner magazine entitled "When Good Pipes Go Bad" regarding CPVC Pipes versus Copper Pipes. Also, the pros and cons of other types of pipes and pertinent information--

www.smart-homeowner.com/articles/5702/1 (Smart Homeowner's site and info.)

Happy reading--anymore questions--just ask--

Foodie

 

Foodie that is a good article.

There is also connectors available that can connect copper to copper copper to plastic or whatever Plastic to plastic or any combination of copper and plastic. Comes in all kinds of connectors and sizes from T connectors to couplings and everything else.

Home Depot has a small selection of these.

Now to the beauty of these connectors you just push the pipe in and that is it no gluing no soldering no compression fittings and no screwing. JUst push the pipe in works both with copper and plastic. Works under pressure and you can undo it with a 99 cent tool in seconds and then just push it back in. A little pricey but for repairs etc these connectors are impossible to beat.

They a basically O rings like the space shuttle except they don't come apart and cause it to blow up

I have used them and never had a problem

Lee j

 

Lee--

Thanks about the article in my previous post regarding CPVC pipes. The article is informative for those homeowners who wish to know more about copper and CPVC pipes.

Have a good night--

Foodie