How can you tell whether your water service pipe is made of copper, steel, lead or plastic?

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How can you tell whether your water service pipe is made of copper, steel, lead or plastic?
Home Buyers Sellers Sample Report Pictures FAQs Email Us		Simply scrape the pipe material at the wall where the pipe enters the house. Copper is relatively soft and has a copper penny color. Galvanized steel is hard and has a silver-gray color. Lead is fairly soft. You will only see this type of service piping in homes that are about 100 years old. The joint where the lead has been sweated to the supply piping looks like a bulb or a short section of expanded pipe. It has a gray color. Plastic piping will have a metal clamp where it joins the supply piping.

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Understanding a Home Inspection is designed as a guide for consumers as well as home inspectors. Use of the guide should promote a better understanding of inspected systems and components while creating a consistency of inspection quality. It is not designed to teach inspection techniques, however, it can be useful in leading anyone through the inspection process.

Within this guide a home is divided into thirteen sections. Each section is then broken down into individual systems and components, 116 areas of inspection in all.

Each of the 116 listed areas of inspection contains a stand alone set of guidelines. When assembled together, these guidelines are the essentials that lay the foundation for home inspection.

Sample checklist home inspection report pages have been included. The design of the checklist report fits well with this guide of basic information.

Reading this guide will not make you a home inspector, but should give you a better understanding of home inspection.

Home Sellers and Home Buyers will use this guide in determining the condition of a home.

Home Inspectors will use this guide to achieve a better understanding of the essentials of home inspection.

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