When a rebuild touches a system, current code governs the touched work: electrical, smoke and carbon monoxide detection, egress, and energy items are the usual list in the township's 1960s and 1970s stock. They are legitimate, claim relevant costs, but only when they are triggered by the repair's scope, and they belong in the first written estimate. A rebuild quote that discovers them as change orders has under scoped the job you signed.
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