About Trench to Trim
Trench to Trim lays out the plumbing side of a remodel or new build in the order it happens, so the person paying for the work knows what to expect, check and ask at each stage.
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What these pages are for
A plumbing job on a new house or a gutted bathroom runs in stages: the permit and the bids, the pipe laid under a slab, the rough-in inside open walls, the top-out before drywall, and the trim-out and final inspection at the end. Each stage closes with a test or an inspection, and each one buries work that is hard to see again. These pages explain what goes in at each stage, which decisions have to be made before it starts, what the inspector looks at, and what is worth photographing before it is covered.
The pages are written for homeowners and owner-builders who are hiring licensed plumbers, not for people designing or installing a plumbing system themselves.
What the site never does
Trench to Trim is not a plumbing contractor. It does no installs, repairs, bids, estimates, inspections or site visits, and it cannot tell you what your own building department will accept. Gas piping, water heater venting, backflow devices and electrical work are always a licensed professional's job, and the pages say so where they come up.
Trench to Trim has no connection to any business that used this web address before.
Where the information comes from
Code points come from the model codes' publishers (the International Code Council for the IPC and IRC, IAPMO for the UPC) and from city and county building departments that publish their inspection checklists. Safety and health points come from federal agencies such as EPA, CPSC, DOE and the CDC. Product details come from makers' installation instructions and specification sheets. Each page names the documents it relies on and the month they were read.
Because states and cities amend the model codes, a number on these pages is a starting point for a question to your inspector or plumber, not a ruling. Pages are re-checked when a code edition or a maker's instructions change.
Corrections
If a page gets something wrong, the date at the top of each page shows when it was last checked, and pages are re-read against their sources when they are updated. Who owns the site and which businesses it links to are set out on who owns this site.