Absolutely. The tricky thing in our case was we weren't sure what work had been done and what hadn't. The furnace wasn't original to the home and neither was the hot water heater. Just a case of bad timing, I suppose. We've found out that they did cosmetic fixes to previous water damage in the lower level ceiling to hide the damage and I believe this latest plumbing issue was left by them as well. It looks like they forgot and left the supply line to the spigot on during a freeze and the water expanded and burst an elbow near the exterior wall then just shut off the water supply and probably never used it again. That was on our home inspector though—he obviously never tested that spigot. Buying a new home might be our next move. It'd be so nice to have everything warrantied and not have those worries. The maintenance is never ending with a used home. I do have to say though our old 1923 Sears catalogue kit home was FAR less maintenance than the newer homes we've lived in. Before computer modeling they probably built them way more robustly than they needed to be.
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