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  1. Plumbing
    I am a homeowner about to hire a plumbing company to re-pipe our entire home. Four adults and two children are full time 24/7 residents. Two retirees, two work from home, both children homeschooled. Re-piping to be done with PEX. Current piping is Uponor red and blue PEX with hot water...
  2. Carpentry
    I am once again, continuing my never ending punishment adventure of replacing my homes pinhole leak infested copper plumbing with PEX-A, along with renovating my downstairs bathroom and laundry room. The purpose of this post is 2 fold: 1) To determine if I can remove what seem to be pointless...
  3. Plumbing
    So, I purchased a bunch of plumbing parts back in April, to replace all my pin-hole-leak infested 50year old copper lines... Then I decided to fall off a ladder and mess up my neck, jaw and eye for a few months instead. Now it's July and I have passed my return/exchange window for...
  4. Plumbing
    Hi, I'm moving some waterlines from the middle of the bathroom to a wall. I'm gonna have to use a fitting to move them and I was wondering what would be the best solution. Going from copper to copper and then switching to PEX or using a PEX fitting but leaving under the slab. I'm guessing the...
  5. Landscaping & Lawn Care
    Hello Everyone, I'm renting a trencher to run electric to a shed. Although I haven't architected it, I also need water out there.. I would like to run whatever piping is necessary to a support a sprinkler manifold or maybe a simple hose spigot. Would I use PEX or PVC for this ? Is there...
  6. Plumbing
    I'm replacing a 20 (?) year old frost free faucet. It's connected to some 1/2" translucent tubing labeled as PEX-A. The old faucet is soldered to a fitting and crimped. Can I just cut the tubing and use a Sharkbite push-fit to female adapter, or is that not appropriate for this type of...
  7. Plumbing
    I installed a Watts hot water recirculation system with a sensor valve / manifold below my Delta faucet with these wonderful PEX C lines. Waaaaay too long. They need to be CUT. Reading a similar thread to this one it appears cutting them is a potential problem. The local yocal at the home...
  8. Electrical
    I've got my main water supply, galvanized 3/4in, that has a large bonding wire clamped to it. It runs across the unfinished basement, and ties into the electrical panel. I'm planning on replacing my old galvanized plumbing with PEX. I understand my main panel needs both a ground rod, which is...
  9. Plumbing
    I want to run PEX through my floor joists. The plumbing inspector said to go 3" and 5" from the top of joists with hot above cold. This make sense when running along the side a joist but I probably shouldn't be drilling one hole above another when running perpendicular and through my 2x8 floor...
  10. Plumbing
    I had a fire sprinkler system designed using pex, thinking that would be the least expensive route, but am now experiencing sticker shock that the bracket assemblies (1” tee, ½” fnpt) are $30+ each, which adds up quickly with 25 heads. I am looking for a lower cost workaround that securely...
  11. Plumbing
    The old "1/2" male brass connections on fittings and ball valves in PEX piping in my house are a larger diameter than newly purchased ones. Today I bought PEX crimping and cutting tools, 1/2 inch Sharkbite tubing, copper crimp rings, and a 1/2 inch Sharkbite brand brass ball valve to...
  12. Plumbing
    Should I be hesitant putting pex waterline in an exterior wall? It will only be 4 foot max long. This is in Des Moines, IOWA. THX
  13. Plumbing
    Good Morning, I have a 100+ year-old home that has had multiple sets of hands on its plumbing over the years. I want to upgrade it all to PEX (HOMERUN) this summer. I've been looking online and multiple threads on this forum for ideas. I have a few questions tho. This is what I currently have...
  14. Plumbing
    My kitchen sink is the furthest sink from the hot water heater. If the hot water hasn't been used in a while it can take a long time for the water to get hot. I wanted to run a smaller pipe to this sink. I was hoping to use a 1/2" PEX pipe. Right now this is a 3/4" copper pipe. The sink and a...
  15. Plumbing
    I have a 1920s 2-family. the plumbing in the basement is a mess o fa maze. When the water heaters were relocated for venting purposes, the the lines were just extended to/from instead of re-planned. When the kitchen on 2nd floor unit was updated, a 3/4 line for both cold & hot was put in...
  16. Plumbing
    Hello all, long story short the task of re plumbing an old, until recently abandoned, school has fallen to me. I'm planning to simply bypass the 90+ year old galvanized pipe and install PEX runs. My question begins with the water main. Coming into the building is a 2.5" pipe. I'd like to...
  17. Electrical
    Our electrical panel was bonded to our copper cold water pipe, but then we had some pieces of PEX installed. There is PEX now on both sides of the water meter. Our side, and the service side. This certainly must block the continuity. So, is there any reason at all to leave the bond there?
  18. Plumbing
    Hello, I am currently working on installing a whole house humidifier and am having trouble figuring out how to plumb the waterline to it. The closest existing line is in my water heater closet, and the line I need to cut a tee into is 3/4-inch PEX. The humidifier calls for 1/4-inch O.D...
  19. Plumbing
    I am redoing all plumbing in my house. 1. Should I go with PEX or PEX-Al-PEX pipe for showers and sinks? I've read the PEX-Al-PEX has slower heat loss and better flow rate. And what size should I use 1/2", 5/8" or 3/4"? I want to be able to have strong water pressure in the shower/facets. 2...
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