EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
I've never seen that type of connections on PEX before. What are they called?
Where I work, most plumbers use the copper rings that you squeeze tight over the PEX for a permanent seal. You need to have the special tool to do this, and it's kind of cumbersome to get it into place, but it's by far the best choice to do it once and never worry about it again. The stainless clamps are used by some because they are easier to get on, but they are not as strong and will sometimes leak.
In almost every new house that I've been in, the PEX is color coded. Red for hot, blue for cold. There is a manifold for each color. Then a line runs all the way from that easy to get to manifold, to where the water is needed. For a bathroom, that's 2 half inch hot lines and 3 half inch cold lines. No manifolds along the way, no manifolds in the wall of the bathroom or in the attic above it. This ensures that there will never be a leak. When a manifold is used somewhere along the way, that's where you look for the leaks. It's a lot cheaper to run a few extra lines that to fix a leak in ten years. Adding manifolds to PEX pretty much defeats the strongest selling point of PEX. No connections or breaks in the lone from start to end.
I've replaced a few plastic manifolds, and I'm surprised that they still exist. I'm even more surprised that anybody would buy them over copper manifolds. They like to crack where the nipple connects to the main body of the manifold.
Are those slip on fittings?
Why did you run white PEX instead of color coding it with blue and red?
The good thing about having all this on video is that you will know where to look if you ever have a problem.
Where the plastic manifolds and fittings a lot cheaper the copper and brass?
Why didn't you do the vent lines before the PEX? It's a lot easier to bend PEX around a vent line then it is to squeeze a big PVC pipe around a bunch of PEX already in the wall.
Where I work, most plumbers use the copper rings that you squeeze tight over the PEX for a permanent seal. You need to have the special tool to do this, and it's kind of cumbersome to get it into place, but it's by far the best choice to do it once and never worry about it again. The stainless clamps are used by some because they are easier to get on, but they are not as strong and will sometimes leak.
In almost every new house that I've been in, the PEX is color coded. Red for hot, blue for cold. There is a manifold for each color. Then a line runs all the way from that easy to get to manifold, to where the water is needed. For a bathroom, that's 2 half inch hot lines and 3 half inch cold lines. No manifolds along the way, no manifolds in the wall of the bathroom or in the attic above it. This ensures that there will never be a leak. When a manifold is used somewhere along the way, that's where you look for the leaks. It's a lot cheaper to run a few extra lines that to fix a leak in ten years. Adding manifolds to PEX pretty much defeats the strongest selling point of PEX. No connections or breaks in the lone from start to end.
I've replaced a few plastic manifolds, and I'm surprised that they still exist. I'm even more surprised that anybody would buy them over copper manifolds. They like to crack where the nipple connects to the main body of the manifold.
Are those slip on fittings?
Why did you run white PEX instead of color coding it with blue and red?
The good thing about having all this on video is that you will know where to look if you ever have a problem.
Where the plastic manifolds and fittings a lot cheaper the copper and brass?
Why didn't you do the vent lines before the PEX? It's a lot easier to bend PEX around a vent line then it is to squeeze a big PVC pipe around a bunch of PEX already in the wall.
