pex plumbing
(I've got a couple of pictures to add to this, and will do so later.)
We're about 99% finished with the plumbing and ready to inspect. Just a couple of little things to fix up and we're done. The domestic water is all run off of a Manibloc Pex manifold, which is really slick. All of the materials were bought at houseneeds.com online. Tell them you saw it here!
Basically, we have red lines to hot water, and blue to cold. Every line is a home run to the manifold. It went in quicker than electrical, and is super super easy to install. (Yes, that's two 'supers'.) The line that comes into the house is copper in our case, so there is very little copper expense involved. We have 4 or 5 thousand feet of pex tubing running through the house for the domestic and heat combined. Its so cool, that its almost a shame to cover it all up with drywall!
The heating system is also pex supplied. We have Myson panel radiators in all of the living space, and a manifold system in the basement that connects them all. The heat and domestic hot water are all supplied by a high efficiency, on demand boiler, which hangs on the wall in the basement, and is about the size of 27" TV. (Not a plasma. The old kind of TV.) The heating system and materials were also bought through houseneeds.com. They pretty much designed the system based on the specs that I gave them about our space.
I'm really excited to get things all fired up. It should be a really efficient system. Quiet. User friendly. Healthy. And cost effective.
Pictures to come.
-kk
We're about 99% finished with the plumbing and ready to inspect. Just a couple of little things to fix up and we're done. The domestic water is all run off of a Manibloc Pex manifold, which is really slick. All of the materials were bought at houseneeds.com online. Tell them you saw it here!
Basically, we have red lines to hot water, and blue to cold. Every line is a home run to the manifold. It went in quicker than electrical, and is super super easy to install. (Yes, that's two 'supers'.) The line that comes into the house is copper in our case, so there is very little copper expense involved. We have 4 or 5 thousand feet of pex tubing running through the house for the domestic and heat combined. Its so cool, that its almost a shame to cover it all up with drywall!
The heating system is also pex supplied. We have Myson panel radiators in all of the living space, and a manifold system in the basement that connects them all. The heat and domestic hot water are all supplied by a high efficiency, on demand boiler, which hangs on the wall in the basement, and is about the size of 27" TV. (Not a plasma. The old kind of TV.) The heating system and materials were also bought through houseneeds.com. They pretty much designed the system based on the specs that I gave them about our space.
I'm really excited to get things all fired up. It should be a really efficient system. Quiet. User friendly. Healthy. And cost effective.
Pictures to come.
-kk
posted by ken at 12:39 PM
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