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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP to the mold topic - anecdotally, "everyone" (3 families) I know with new houses have had unexpected mold problems, due to shoddy plumbing work. There were otherwise high- end homes too. I don't know how many friends with older houses have had mold problems. Possibly, old houses are constantly being repaired so no one thinks twice of a budding (but fixed) mold problem. :) [/quote]

And my experience is the exact opposite.  I lived in one of the MD Levittowns built from the late 1950's to the early 1970's.  From my plumber, he mentioned that the Levitt machine used so many problematic materials, especially copper piping that was nowhere near up to today's code and that he himself had serviced over 100 of the homes in the community (over about a 20 year period) that had problems with pinhole leaks that caused innumerable problems some quite major and some creating mold issues.  In 2001, I came home to find my kitchen ceiling sitting on the kitchen floor exposing my rambler attic letting all of my household's heat out.  It was caused by a pinhole leak in the copper pipes.  In 2008 when we had moved out and the house was on the market, another leak in a different piece of the pipe burst in two places and caused the destruction of about 75% of the house.  Thank to the insurance and about $10K of our money for renovations, we were able to add a huge amount of value to the house and sold it for than we could have gotten before the accident, although we had to take the house off the market for 6 months.  Conversely, in our McMansion neighborhood, I know a few dozen families through the HOA and community events and none of them have had any major plumbing problems because the PVC piping is better lasting than the old copper piping.

Construction that meets current modern code is significantly more reliable than anything built post-WWII.[/quote]

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