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My parents house and some others in the neighborhood where they live have PB between the house and meter. Theirs was built in the early 80s next door was built in the early 90s and also had PB. Allot of builders and others used PB for the main as it was cheaper than copper and when running a line over 100' it adds up.
The neighbors broke at the meter one day. I saw it when pulling up and turned his water off and called to tell him. My parents had developed a hole in theirs due to a rock rubbing the pipe lots of rock there. Unfortunately I was out of town and they had to have a plumber gouge them. $500 for a repair on it and the pipe is not even 8" deep...
One of my projects one day will be to dig it out and replace it with pex. If I were you I would re plumb the house but like you were told it's mainly the connections that fail.
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my boss's house has it. He's been replacing it with copper as it fails.
I almost bought a house with it. glad I didn't.
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When inspecting the 3/2/2 house we bought a year ago, I found PB tubing. House is on slab and all tubing runs in attic.
I had the seller reduce the price of the house by $3000, which was the cost to have it replumbed with PEX, and all new valves. It included a 9 year elec. water heater.
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