Jeff Grzetich, of Plumb Crazy Plumbers in St. Petersburg, Florida, used to install CPVC piping in homes. But when too many repiping jobs started requiring follow-up visits, he knew he had to find an alternative.“Over time the CPVC is getting brittle and cracking, so I no longer use it,” he says. “Occasionally I have to use it on a repair when the system already has it in there, but I don’t use CPVC for repipes anymore.”Grzetich is not alone. Though still an accepted material for piping, CPVC is losing favor with some plumbers as they encounter various problems with it
Potential Plumbing Problems Lurking in Walls
Plumbers weigh in on the piping material that some say is increasingly causing problems in water systems.
Apr 16, 2015
| by Kyle Rogers |
