Song Dog

Here is an example of the Aquapex I use on a crawl and basement. The basement manifold in not quite finished, just needed to add tube talons to staighten them up.
Thanks for look'n.





God Bless,

Song Dog

Bjd

Nice work Doug!!

Nice to see someone who can do things straight.
I know the stuff is hard to work with, and keeping things straight is pretty tough.

BJD

Moscow

very nice job, I was wondering do you have to have at least 18" of copper to the hot water tank from the pex? Here that is what they have to do. One last thing do they allow you to use pex for the t&p drain?
Nice and neat job

Song Dog

No, I don't have to have 18" of copper and we can use the Apex from the T&P valve.

Thanks for the nice comment guys.

God Bless,

Song Dog

Teetorbilt

Song Dog, that is a very interesting system and I have a few questions.

Why the manifolds? I understand that it isolates each terminus but why? How often do these feeds need to be turned off? I'm not seeing this here, even on yachts.

Just curious if the isolated manifold is grounded or bonded to anything. Freshwater can also carry enough current to lead to electrolysis.

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robertc65

Stupid question here. I have been looking at running Pex under my kitchen floor before finishing the basement, which is why I am here looking at the pictures. The labels on some of your pex runs have me thinking. You have one labeled Master Stool. Is this used to heat the freaking toilet? Is this what happens when you have to much money. You have to think of creative ways of spending it like heating your toilet.

maj

Rodert, the only picture I can read master stool is on the cold manifold.Unless there's one in the other picture, but I can't read those labels. Actually there are many people that will run hot water to the stools. Helps reduce condensation in the summer (sweating).

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willbone3

my poop water is heated, now i have heard everything. wouldn't want poop to get a chill in cold water, my wife doesn't leave hot water after shower ill be darned if poop gets hot water and i dint

mdshunk

I have a mixing valve on the crapper's water line. Stops the toilet from sweating and dripping down on the floor and making the floor damp. We're talking about just barely room temperature here, not warm.

maj

Thanks shunk!..... I was beginning to think we were the only ones smart enough to run warm water to the toilet!!!

note: previous post by maj.

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ncor

nothin puts a smile on her face like a nice warm shot from the bidet

smellslike$tome

Song Dog,

This looks an awful lot like new work to me, although it could be a repipe as well. If it is new work, I thought Ben Franklin only did residential service and some repipes? I'm just curious. You can of course plumb whatever you like.

R&S Exteriors

I'm no plumber but it looks like a very professional job to me.

willbone3

I had no idea about the warm water i guess i m just a dumb old hillbilly

hjm

Nice to see everything straight and labeled, good work

Song Dog

It is new work. I bought a franchise and these are from some that I have finished awhile back.
I aslo have done one house with the red and blue pipe which turned out really cool.
New construction has really burned me out. I like service better anyways.

God Bless,

Song Dog

plumber jay

Dog
Do your costomers complain about the wait for hot water?
A more effective (in my oppinion) system is a main with headers in the washrooms. At least for the hot but i would do this on both to stay consistant.



Why would you waste hot water on your toilet? A well insulated tank should elimanate the sweating.

cmwacasey

my thoughts also about waiting for hot water.As I see it that is the down side of the system.Hot water toilets is new to me.

Ron The Plumber

We been installing pex sytems for years now and I don't get why put in a manifold, to me this is just a waste of money, you waste way too much pipe doing it this way, not to mention the cost. Is it because you can isolate a single fixture when needed, is that not why there are angle stops at certain fixtures.

I guess if one can afford the cost and has money to spend/burn, then guess they can install anyway they want.

plumber jay

Ron the plumber

I thought that the manifold system was supposed to be cheaper to instal. I thought that pex fittings were expensive compared to the pipe. (cheapier to run extra 20 feet than install a tee)
Also the fittings on most pex systems really reduce the pipe size causing the need to upsize your domestic system.
This is why the better system (in my oppionon) is header downstairs to send one pipe to a washroom and then a header in the washroom to feed the fixtures there.


Song dog the piping does look very good though