Consultant's daughter polybutylene condo replacement lawsuit (Raleigh, NC)

Tom's personal anecdote — daughter bought a condo with polybutylene in 1998, joined the class action just under the wire, received $2,500 to replace fittings.

Maybe the corrosion engineers were right, as they started getting into the degradation of these other materials. You can have separation, you can have cracking. The polybutylene fittings started cracking. People had mold growing in their walls because they'd start leaking. I had a daughter who about 1998 bought a condo down in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it had polybutylene. She knew about it, and she got in just under the wire of the class action suit, and they paid her twenty-five hundred dollars to have all the fittings replaced. It's not the end of the world, but they don't use polybutylene because it stress corrosion cracks in certain types of water.