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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4285904, member: 5066"]Yep, we are going to have to disagree here.</p><p>The business/money end of any plumbing system is under the floor & behind the walls. The fixtures are just the icing on that cake.</p><p>You only get one lifetime (50 years) on a correctly installed system. After that, the band-aids start appearing to keep the system going which only postpones the inevitable replacement of the entire system.</p><p>Considering the hideous costs of a new plumbing system (it's the pipe/labor where the real money is) I (semi-retired plumbing & mechanical contractor, 40+ years in the biz) have never had a residential/commercial client that iced that cake with old plumbing fixtures. Nor would it be prudent to do so financially as on a sale, who exactly is going to explain you have new plumbing but old fixtures?</p><p>The notion that modern plumbing fixtures are inferior in any way to plumbing fixtures in the 1930s is preposterous & not worthy of comment. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4285904, member: 5066"]Yep, we are going to have to disagree here. The business/money end of any plumbing system is under the floor & behind the walls. The fixtures are just the icing on that cake. You only get one lifetime (50 years) on a correctly installed system. After that, the band-aids start appearing to keep the system going which only postpones the inevitable replacement of the entire system. Considering the hideous costs of a new plumbing system (it's the pipe/labor where the real money is) I (semi-retired plumbing & mechanical contractor, 40+ years in the biz) have never had a residential/commercial client that iced that cake with old plumbing fixtures. Nor would it be prudent to do so financially as on a sale, who exactly is going to explain you have new plumbing but old fixtures? The notion that modern plumbing fixtures are inferior in any way to plumbing fixtures in the 1930s is preposterous & not worthy of comment. :)[/QUOTE]
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