I've been bungalow busting for most of my time, I got laid off and went to a commercial shop for the winter, it's insane how fast you are in comparison. Sure there's a lot of different knowledge required but the resources are there for that.
Bigtiddygothgrany
joined 2 years ago
Mostly political reasons haha, the plumbers union has done a lot of work to keep cast iron in the code, because it means the people doing it have to be skilled plumbers. There are other benefits of it though, like if a building catches fire, plastic will melt and the fire could easily spread to other floors through the holes while cast iron would block it.
In US, I live in Illinois, the state we install water pipe thats pex, cpvc, and copper. For drainage, we use PVC, but in the city of Chicago the drainage is cast iron.
PRIMUS SUCKS