Aloha Mark
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Not just Florida. The sun bakes us in Hawaii, and the salt air rusts steel and corrodes aluminum. Even worse, it melts some forms of rubber. I had a pair of Vic Firth drum brushes, and the rubber inners turned to goo. It would have oozed all over the stick holder had I not kept the brushes in a plastic bag. Rubber footing on ottomans or speaker stands also melts and stains floors.Lol. Just the whole Florida vibe. Million dollar house with cheap pipe. I've been to Florida a few times and my grandparents retired there for a while. Its a great and strange place.
The median price on homes nearly crossed a million bucks in Honolulu, and our houses are as poorly built as those in Florida. The pex craze had my insurance broker so worried that he had all of it replaced with copper tubing. When he told me it was the flex variety, I cringed. I would have ripped the greenboard away and used schedule K or L tubing. He was probably thinking about the cost of working on the bathrooms where the retrofitting expense would be as outrageous as a complete remodel. I estimate this would amount to $20K per bathroom plus new fixtures & tile. Our rats are gigantic, and the cockroaches are 300% bigger than those in AL or FL. The rat problem is the number one argument against pex.