An agreement to allow the installation of CPVC pipe in residential structures on a limited basis in California will be voted on Nov. 14.
An agreement to allow the installation of CPVC pipe in residential structures on a limited basis in California will be voted on this month. The deal, which was reached this summer, allows local building code officials to approve CPVC pipe if they can prove metallic pipe is failing or could fail as a result of local water conditions.
The agreement is scheduled for a vote Nov. 14 by members of the California Building Standards Commission. If approved by the commission, the agreement would settle a lawsuit filed in the last week of 1998 to stop the statewide use of CPVC. The California Pipe Trades Council and other contractor and industry groups filed the suit.