There is some relief available for commercial, industrial and residential property owners who have recalled Kitec piping installed, writes Toronto condominium lawyer Deborah Howden in a recent issue of Lawyers Weekly.

“In the real estate and construction industries, ‘Kitec’ is a bad word and not just your run-of-the-mill dirty word,” she writes. “In plumbing, Kitec is the dirtiest, most cursed word of them all, and for good reason: Kitec piping is inherently defective and will prematurely fail, say most experts. The failure is sometimes catastrophic. Simply put, Kitec piping is a ticking time bomb.”

Howden, partner with Shibley Righton LLP, writes that the defective piping was installed in approximately 292,000 properties across North America between 1995 and 2007.

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