Tom Hoffman said:
Wally, That is an astounding number as PEX very cheap to buy the pipe and fittings themselves probably less than $100 for the whole coach. I have plumbed 3 new houses for less than $200 each and that was running separate lines for each fixture. It is super easy to run during new construction. Through the bowels of a MH would be much more complicated, but not $9K more complicated. ;D ;D
My tongue in cheek comment was just that, as I live in very rural and dumping a little water on my lawn does not do as much as the grass roots reaching down to the septic fields in the yard. Remember Erma Bombeck's book "The Grass is always greener over the septic tank" 8) 8)
I understand rural. 17 miles from town, 3/4mile off the pavement, on 9 acres of woods. Even my S&B house dumps the gray water on the ground.
As far as the coach, well, there was the whole "disassemble the wet bay" thing to get to part of the lines. Then they had both tires off one side and had to come up through the wheel well to get to the lines under the vanity and shower. The rear furnace had to come out for access also, as did 1/2 the bathroom floor.
The adjuster made a mistake and approved the claim(apparently not supposed to cover frozen pipes, just broken ones), he told my guy to make sure the estimate covered every possibility. Said they would not approve a supplement if he missed something, so he put everything he could think of on the estimate. New water pump, w/heater check valve, and water heater also figured into the estimate.
Since it turned out the water heater was okay, instead of that, we got a fancy new kitchen faucet, a nice porcelain toilet and new fixtures in the shower and bathroom sink. The black water flush lines were also cracked. That was a pretty fun project to get to them, I tell you.
I owned a shop restoring old cars for the last 10 years of my work life, and I wouldn't have wanted to do this job for any amount of money. Oh, and he waived my deductible, so I was out of pocket exactly nothing. The RV park I was staying at even pro rated my stay so I was able to pick up where I left off after the coach spent 3 weeks at the shop(6 days waiting, the rest being worked on).
Overall I was pleased. I visited the shop several times(usually to get more my wife more clothes)and both guys were busy with the coach every time I showed up. The coach is better than it was, heck, I even got to fix the dryer while they had it out of the cabinet to replace the plumbing behind it.
We're in our second week of being back in the coach and everything is just about back to normal. Now...if it'd only quit raining. Going on the 3rd day straight and I'm parked about 50 yards from the Arkansas River.