#121766 - 01/28/08 08:23 PM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: MartinFocazio]
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I'd be interested to know how you like the PEX. Hope your son doesn't have too many blisters!
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#121831 - 01/29/08 03:11 AM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: KG2V]
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Registered: 11/27/06
Posts: 707
Loc: Alamogordo, NM
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We have the predecessor to PEX... I can;t think of its acronym right now. There have been lawsuits and the makers and builders have had to completely refurbish homes by replacing all the lines with PEX. Our home has the old stuff, and thank god I don;t have any leaks.
I'm a big fan of copper too, like kc2ixe. In a former life, I was a carpenter. Being in the trade for ten years, I learned how to sweat pipes from plumbers. There's nothing like it! Give me a hot water heater to install, and if there's copper to be sweated, I'm there...Mapp gas and solder in hand.
I suppose though, if and when I have to do it, I'll replace out stuff with PEX just because of its flexibility and ease of installation.
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#121839 - 01/29/08 03:47 AM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: Stretch]
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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Keeping water on hand while plumbing work is in progress is also good just in case the work doesn't get done TODAY.
I still remember the day my father was doing some kind of plumbing, and we didn't have use of a toilet or running water for two days.
Sue
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#121858 - 01/29/08 11:55 AM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: KG2V]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 2997
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Heh, now a days its probably profitable to convert if you sell the old copper lines Is PEX the stuff thats amde from PVC, I can't recall whats what anymore.
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#121859 - 01/29/08 11:56 AM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: Stretch]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 2997
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I only have one of those little propane torches, takes forever to get a copper joint warm enough to solder. Once we move I'm upgrading to a better torch.
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#121860 - 01/29/08 11:58 AM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: Susan]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 12/26/02
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I work in IT and with enterprise class servers which have redundant power supplies, hot plug hardware, etc and was telling co workers that when I was redoing my kitchen I was tempted to run redundant load balanced pipes to everything so I could work on one part while the rest was still in use so I could have 99.99999% uptime of all my plumbing.
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#121861 - 01/29/08 12:27 PM
Re: Another reason to keep water...
[Re: Eugene]
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Rapscallion
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Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
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Sounds like your plumbing system is Microsoft based, then. In that case, I would wait for PEX v 2.0 before making the changes, they should have it debugged by then. Also make sure you get the right size for the desired throughput. PEX lite might be okay for household work.
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