Routing Multiple Pex Pipes Through Unfinished Attic

It is usually colder than the rest of the house mostly due to the cat door and slider the dogs go in and out of.

Routing multiple pex pipes through unfinished attic.

Connect pex with viega pex press fittings viega has developed one of the fastest and easiest methods for joining pex. I m replumbing my house with pex. Instead of running from floor to ceiling a soffit runs across the top of a wall. Pex water pipe connections leakproof joints are made faster than soldering.

The foyer is 16 long and is off the kitchen it isn t heated directly but is part of the house. 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. This allows plumbing to run from the basement to the attic. Because there are.

San antonio is a temperate climate and it rarely gets below freezing and i know pex is more resilient when is comes to freeze ups as the plastic tends to expand as needed. The simple solution is to dig up the insulation run the pipes along the top of the ceiling drywall ie just above the ceiling rather than just below it and put the insulation back on top of them which puts them on the warm side of the insulation inside the home thermally speaking also to be a lot more careful when hiring plumbers. Running pex in an attic. I plan on running pex pipes both hot and cold across 16 feet of unheated attic space above a foyer.

As far as leaks go i was thinking that a leak in attic would do more immediate damage but would likely be detected much sooner. One story on crawlspace. Pex is semi flexible which allows for long continuous runs through joists and studs. When running pipe from a slab to an attic use cross linked polyethylene tubing or pex instead of copper.

Similar to the chase is the soffit. Would it be better to route the new pipes through the attic instead of the crawlspace. Inside pipes can be run vertically to accommodate new plumbing. The chase is most commonly used for running new vent stacks.

The current galv pipes run in crawlspace.