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A customer of mine has been talked into using a flexible plastic tubing for domestic water in his new house. I think it is P.E.T. tubing, could be wrong. Any information would be appreciated, I like copper.
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requires special fittings between lengths of PET and PET to copper, plus the crimping tool and a PVC cutting tool.
easy install.
revert to copper at points below fixtures for rigidity and installation to valves/stops.
never used it. saw a demonstration.
brian
*PEX tubing has high initial costs but has less labor.Great/excellent for refits, or good for new construction. Its flexible, very strong and durable. PEX is the tubing they use for radiant heating in slab work.Newer (relativly) material for the widespead use, so many plumbers are prone to using tried and true copper. But copper has a high labor cost.Pex was(is) the tubing that RVs, Campers and i think modular/mobile/manufactured housing has been using for years.
*I think this article has a good overview of pex:http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/jlconline.storefront/3c7a876a00593937271a401e1d290613/UserTemplate/82?s=3c7a876a00593937271a401e1d290613&c=9fc4928c8be8359bab81dae18dcab581&p=1
*Cami, that link only takes a body to JLCOnline's home page. I think i know the article you mean, but it's--alas!--only by subscription now.
*Sorry- I hate that links there rarely work any more. This one's still free-try this linkfree path:JLC >Articles >Plumbing >Plastic Plumbing >Plastic Plumbing comes of Age.
*All of the stuff at JLC that was free is suppose to still be free, but they do hit it. I am not posting a link as they are very long and they seem to change all of the time.Go to http://www.jlconline.com, then the RESEARCH TAB.Then Browse Articles, Plumbing, the Plastic piping. The free ones are marked.