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re: Anyone know anything about DSLD homes?
Posted on 8/30/14 at 8:33 am to dkreller
Posted on 8/30/14 at 8:33 am to dkreller
A family member just bought a DLSD home. I looked at it (and others) while they we're bring constructed.
I was a little leery of their use of hoses for water and gas lines in the house (I'd prefer metal pipe)...but I guess that's ok per building code now. Curious to see what goes down 30-40 yrs from now. Especially plastic pipe in hot attics.
The other beef I've heard is that they (builders in general) might not allow proper cure time of the slab before framing up the house. Not sure how to handle that. Everyone is in a rush to finish nowadays, but you need to allow sufficient cure time before putting load on your concrete. (They had cracks in their garage slab even before they moved in)
I was a little leery of their use of hoses for water and gas lines in the house (I'd prefer metal pipe)...but I guess that's ok per building code now. Curious to see what goes down 30-40 yrs from now. Especially plastic pipe in hot attics.
The other beef I've heard is that they (builders in general) might not allow proper cure time of the slab before framing up the house. Not sure how to handle that. Everyone is in a rush to finish nowadays, but you need to allow sufficient cure time before putting load on your concrete. (They had cracks in their garage slab even before they moved in)
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Posted on 8/30/14 at 8:35 am to TDFreak
Lots of construction is going to pex pipe for water. My house has it and it's not a big deal
Posted on 8/30/14 at 11:00 am to TDFreak
I believe gas lines must still be metal. Not sure of metal type though. I have a DR Horton home here in Texas that we "built" 2 yrs ago and everything is fine. Yes it is cookie cutter, but it works for us and property value has gone up ~$40k. I will be getting PMI taken off soon.
Posted on 8/30/14 at 2:06 pm to TDFreak
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I was a little leery of their use of hoses for water and gas lines in the house (I'd prefer metal pipe)...but I guess that's ok per building code now. Curious to see what goes down 30-40 yrs from now. Especially plastic pipe in hot attics.
It's called PEX and it has been around forever actually in commercial and natural gas applications. It has only recently (the past 7-8 years) really caught on in residential construction due to the constant rising cost of copper.
It, like copper, has it's pros and cons but if installed correctly you won't have any issues with it and unlike copper if you have a leak at least you won't have to bust up your slab to fix it.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 4:36 pm to TDFreak
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Especially plastic pipe in hot attics.
We have had only PVC in every house we have had.
Zero issues long term.
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