Pex tubing or piping is used for water supply lines as well as radiant floor heating.
How to run pex pipe in attic.
You ll know it s in position when it s between an 1 8 and 1 4 or closer to the end of the pipe.
There s been a lot of debate over pex for the last several years because pex has a few downsides that you might not expect.
Pex fittings are faster to install than copper.
Slip a crimp ring onto the pipe and then slide the pipe into the fitting.
Use a pair of slip joint pliers or your fingers to slide the crimp ring up.
The new plastic fashioned into flexible pex pipe also known as pex tubing arrived in the us in the 1980s initially for radiant floor heating systems.
There s a little shoulder on all the fittings that s where you slide the pex to.
Some of the savings will go towards purchasing a special tool to install the fittings.
Half inch pex tubing costs about one third the price of copper.
When running pipe from a slab to an attic use cross linked polyethylene tubing or pex instead of copper.
For a variety of reasons from pipe damage under a slab to home design constraints water pipes may need to be run or rerouted through a home s attic.
Pex is semi flexible which allows for long continuous runs through joists and studs.
Running pex in an attic.
But if you re doing a medium to large plumbing job you ll usually save on pex over copper.
I would re route it into the attic and down to each fixture.
The flexible tubing is embedded in a.
If you use a manifold and home run system it.