That does interest me because I am sure at some point the laws of averages, time, etc. will catch up with me and require replacement of the copper lines in this house. If I have to do this, I think I could really get into the idea of a manifold arrangement and just run lines to each fixture. Sure it may be a little more work since you have two lines to run, but it sure would make finding shutoff valves and the like incredibly easy to setup. I also believe a retrofit could be done in stages. First I'd install the manifold, connect that to the system, and then set about running lines. The only problem I can see for myself is the line coming into the house off the meter is on one side of the basement and the water heater is on the other side. This would really mean I would have to locate the manifold in the area where the water heater is and not near the main shutoff. Currently killing the water flow to the entire house could be done by one of the rather tired gate valves. I imagine I could relocate the meter and such, but I suspect that would violate some code because one would have to assume a valve on the main line coming into the house would have to be within a certain number of feet of the entry point. Of course if one got super silly, the line could be accessed outside the house, modified, and run clear around the house to the back of the structure and brought in there. This of course would be very silly considering the amount of digging that would be required and that would just not work. grin
On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Dan Rossi wrote: > There are others here who have actually done the work with PEX, I have > just been reading about it, but yes, you can bridge from Copper to Pex so > can make parcial runs of PEX. For example, I had considered ripping down > the main section of Copper going from my meter to the far end of the > basement where everything begins branching. I considered replacing just > that main section with Pex so I could easily move the line to a more > convenient location, without having to re-plumb the entire place. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: blindhandyman-dig...@yahoogroups.com blindhandyman-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: blindhandyman-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
