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does anyone still use copper in a 1st fix downstairs gorund floor

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Im doing a 1st fix today and was doing in copper with soldered joints the norm would usually use pipe and pipe and manifolds but this was better copper as it was a reovation track floors etc so didnt what to make the tracks massive using pipe in pipe as the house robbed when no one lived in it and the copper was stole.

everyone from the sparks the joiners where over asking copper??$$?? what I havent seen an install in copper in ages. maybe because it was in belfast everyone must use hep, one even said usually any plumber i know uses hep joints under the concrete floor I was like WHAT>>>

so my question is; many copper 1st fixs these days with you guys.
 
Plastic is very popular here in Ireland....mostly as the shoddy workmanship of plumbers/builders in the 70's/80's gave copper a bad name when it only lasted a few yrs after being buried in concrete with no protection...:-(.
I'm a believer in soldered copper but i'm softening to plastic also as during a very severe winter of 2010 most of the call out i got was to copper with brass fittings that had failed....and plastic with a push and twist next to them were perfectly intact....wtf???
most of the plastic used here is qualpex with inserts and brass fittings and from what i can see has proved very successful with the last 15 yrs or so!
 

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