Owning a home in Silicon Valley is not an easy task. The local market of supply and demand, especially in west side of the Valley, is not in sync with the rest of the country's economical situation. The extreme of low supply and high demand has made purchasing a home in Silicon Valley very competitive and sometimes tricky. In this blog, bits and pieces of market phenomenon are presented for your information.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Water Conservation for new remodelling
New rules that may affect you:
Effective January 1, 2014, homeowners obtaining permits to remodel a property built prior to 1994 are required to retrofit with toilets that use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush, shower heads with flow rates of no more than 2.5 gallons per minute, and other interior fixtures that use less than 2.2 gallons of water per minute. This applies to all single-family property permits, as well as multifamily and commercial property permits where 10 percent or more of the square footage is included in the remodel.
By January 1, 2017, all residential properties in California that were built prior to 1994 will need to be in compliance with water fixtures as outlined above, which will bring them up to the same standards as homes built since 1994.
Although retrofitting of all pre-1994 homes will not be mandated until 2017, making this change could save water and money for homeowners.
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