What is a fixture? from the dictionary of Real Estate Terms: Improvements or personal property attached to the land so as to become part of real estate.
Bathroom fixtures include: faucets, shower heads, and toilets.
Bathroom fixtures have come a long way in the past couple of decades. Even a few years ago, most toilets used around 3.5 gallons of water each flush. Today’s high-efficiency models go as low as .8 gallons a flush, saving thousands of gallons of water. As water becomes an increasingly precious resource (at least 36 U.S. states will face water shortages by 2013), conserving it makes a bigger impact on our global community, and it is starting to pay off more in our pocketbooks.
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How will this effect value? It depends, some people have gold-plated fixtures and that may affect value but energy savings that correlate to value needs an appraiser that is certified in energy analyst to answer that question. You can contact the appraisers at www.socalappraisalserv.com if you have questions regarding conservation and its correlation to value.
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