Posted by Steve@Advance on February 18, 2021 at 17:48:44 from (66.169.147.211):
In Reply to: Texas houses posted by cjunrau on February 18, 2021 at 11:25:10:
I had to run my hot water through the attic.
It was originally under the slab. Right after buying the place it started leaking somewhere. It was much easier and more economical to run it through the attic and abandon the leaking one under the slab.
It is well supported and insulated, but I still worry about it. I left the hot water dripping in the bath it supplies.
And as said,many houses are older, plumbed with galvanized pipe, very unforgiving of freezing. Most people don't build their own homes,they buy what is already there, usually track homes built as cheap as possible without looking cheap on the outside. But inside, too many shortcuts!
One thing I have seen too much of in Texas is building in flood planes.
Went to Houston a few years back helping clean out flooded houses after hurricane Harvey. Unbelievable where some of those houses are built! Down in lowlands, surrounded by raised roadways. How anyone could look at something like that and say "there's my dream home" and not realize why the roads are 6 ft higher than the house!
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