Bill Noble wrote:

your experience is different from mine - replumbed my house with copper,
called inspector who talked to me for a few minutes, looked at a few
places where the new pipe was visible and signed off, telling me "I can
see that you know what you are doing, we worry about homeowners who
don't know what they are doing and make dangerous mistakes, and
contractors who cut corners and make dangerous decisions. We don't
worry about people like you who know what you are doing because you will
be living in that house".

Maybe attitude, or locale ?

I know by experience that a good attitude begets good stuff, but I can't
speak at "locale," because of the different politics and stuff that would
be involved.

And it certainly depends a lot on how much of an asshole the local authority
is. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich