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| Pex manifolds in crawlspace |
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| Size 12's plus a shot of the DWV system! |
With a little tenacity and a lot of prayer we passed our rough-in inspection today. I had a lot of fun installing PEX and would highly recommend the manifold system, cinch clamps and pexuniversedotcom!
I've laid what seems like miles of copper in the past, and this pex stuff is slick and fast. Problems? Yep, threaded fittings, almost every one of them. I think the product workmanship is degrading as I've never fought with leaky threaded fittings so much! Most needed both teflon tape and pipe dope in order to seal up. Next time I'd use sweat fittings instead. I admitted to the inspector that though the DWV pipe was holding 5psi just fine, the water side of things was a problem. I was losing a couple pounds in ten minutes...he said "well I know you won't seal up the walls without finding that so good luck" and passed me! He's right, I spent all afternoon spraying fittings, hose and more and finally came to airing up the system to 80psi so I could here the leak. Soapy water wouldn't find it! The faulty fitting was already treated with pipe joint compound but that wasn't enough.
So I'm moving on to the electrical side of things now and leaving the plumbing til final. The master bath custom shower will wait til we're moved in as it'll need tile, glass blocks and other fun things. The upstairs tub with surround will be just fine for a while. Now, just call me Sparky!
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| Custom shower with remoted valve. |
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