The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[kruddler]

Slightly off topic but my niece bought a new house. They got permission to go there prior to settlement to do a few things. They found the all the copper piping under the house had been stolen!

That is not uncommon.

Varies area to area too.

Some areas you need to install the wiring, the insulation and the plaster all in the space of 24 hours.
If you wait any longer they strip the place of all the wiring because of the copper inside.
Copper is rarely used in new builds in favour of pex piping for the same reason.

Nothing worse than firing up your gas on your new appliance and realising that some of your pipework has gone missing,