Whether the art is depreciable primarily depends on the taxpayerâs answer to the following question: âIs any of the artwork considered âvaluable and treasuredâ?â In order to understand why it boils down to this one question, it is helpful to review some history on this issue: The Background Behind Artwork Depreciation
1 By selling your old metal piping for scrap youâll be able to recoup some, if not most, of the cost of new plumbing. 2  Replacing the existing plumbing with copper pipes in an average-sized, 2-batroom home costs $7,500 to $15,000.
Anyone have a safe amount for figuring just the materials, not the labor costs per fixture opening in new construction? Not the cheapest, just slightly above cheapest products. Ranch home, copper piping. I'll have to count the fixture openings but it's a standard 4 bath ranch with hose bibbs, floor drains. Back in the day we used to figure $300 per opening, $100 apiece for floor drains and hose bibbs.