(10-04-2020, 04:07 PM)ViPER1313 Wrote: What specifically is wrong with PEX plumbing? Pretty much every house built today uses pex.PEX is polyethylene. Polybutylene was like PEX version 0.1, used in the 80s and early 90s. There was no real scientific backing for why it failed but most people got 10 to 15 years out of the before they leaked. It failed at a high enough rate the company responsible for it got sued into oblivion. The theory is it couldn't hold up to most city water due to all the disinfectants/chlorine most plants add. It rots/flakes from the inside so there's no telling how close you are to doom.
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(10-04-2020, 03:51 PM)Tyler.M Wrote:If I walk, I'm out $3,500 and I'm either homeless on Nov 2nd or scrambling to find a rental. The house is also really fucking nice. Checks all the boxes, even the little ones. Backs up to 50 acres of undeveloped land and has a basement I didn't know about I can easily convert to extra shop space/storage. Even has a trailer pad already. The pool and just about everything else checks out so this honestly the only real issue.(10-04-2020, 02:36 PM)Deceus Wrote: Yeah I have a plumber coming Monday morning. The sellers have already dug in and said they're not paying a cent since there's no current leaks other than the one drain that apparently wasn't reconnected properly. I honestly don't give a shit if they pay or not, it's getting fixed by me, we're splitting the cost or I'm walking. There's no scenario where this deal goes through without it getting fixed. Not sure why they're even debating if they "have to" or not. So stupid.
They seem to have misinterpreted my intentions since I'm trying to get ahead of the VA appraisal/minimum eligibility. The lender very likely is going to find out about the piping. Not sure why everyone seems to want to bank on them not finding out. They seem to think I'm using the inspection from Friday morning to justify preventative repairs. They are indeed correct the past inspection was purely for the current state of the house. The VA is a different beast all together. They can and will look at the life expectancy of things and offer conditional approvals based on them. Crazy I have to explain that to not one but both realtors.
Also crazy they're both committed to convincing me this is just some minor preference and not some defective material that resulted in a billion dollar law suit. Guess we'll see, it shouldn't be too expensive as it's just the first floor and the crawlspace is HUGE.
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You have more patience then me. I would have walked away from this place and went to a different realtor at this point.
I am fresh out of patience though. Fortunately my realtor stepped down and passed me off to another agent a lot closer. She's been good so far and at least she seems to understand the situation or at least realizes arguing with me on this is a bad idea.
Hoping for a cheapish quote here. I can swing $5k, would like to split it if it's $10k. It certainly should not be anymore for such a lay-up of a re-pipe job from what I can tell. They did the upstairs expansion in PEX, so all just crawlspace, fittings and adapters.
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