If your in Florida I hope your going to insulate the COLD water lines. If you don't the water will be hot when you first turn it on.
Why are they using both ProPress and solder joints? It is difficult to make "close" connections with ProPress buy they seem to be doing it the hard way, or else they intended to do it one way and then changed their minds, but you cannot "rotate" ProPress once it is made..
Insulation does NOT prevent the lines from heating up, or cooling down for hot water. It merely slows down the process. if the water is "stagnant" in the attic for any period of time it WILL heat up to ambient temperature.
The best way to move forward is to get your local inspector to look at this and then fire the guy who wasted all that material and his time.
Can one fail an inspection due to ugly soldering and poor pipe placement?
Insulation does NOT prevent the lines from heating up, or cooling down for hot water. It merely slows down the process. if the water is "stagnant" in the attic for any period of time it WILL heat up to ambient temperature.
Inspectors can't turn down ugly.
They can turn down pipes placed in places that will freeze, but not for being less than perfect.
It will either hold water or not. And if it doesn't, it will be fixed.
quote; The inspector will say: every joint with excess solder is a potential future leak.
Not any inspector I know.Excess solder on the surface has absolutely no relationship to the amount INSIDE the joint. INSUFFICIENT solder will create a weak joint which would be a potential leak, BUT there is seldom any outward indication of insufficient solder. Rigidly strapping piping does NOT create leaks, but "loose" strapping which allows movement CAN create a weak spot in the tubing if wear occurs. The final two statements, i.e., "you will have leaks for sure", and "If you want to sleep at night, etc", are hyperbole and based on opinions which have little to support them. Unless it leaks when the water is turned on, I would not worry about it. Any ProPress joints which were "missed" will leak, intentionally, so they can be properly sealed with the tool.
quote; Is it safe to say that if the pluming passes a pressure and water test it's in decent shape?
Unfortunately, no. But that applies to ANY installation, not just yours. I once had a customer who dropped a can of peas onto a copper elbow that had been installed 20 years previously, and it "fell apart" causing a flood. The pipe had only been inserted into the fitting about 1/8" but had held all that time, until the can dislodged it.
This is awkward, but...
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