Existing ranch has very low ceilings 7 8 so dropping any ceilings will not work.
Run water pipes in the attic ontario.
Pipes do run under houses many times in concrete.
It wouldn t hurt to insulate the pipes with foam pipe insulation before the pipes are buried needless to say if you find the work daunting you should call a plumber.
The new pipe is simply installed in the path of least resistance.
I m going to get a jackhammer to get into the slab.
One at the manifold and another at the fixture end.
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.
This system uses more tubing but is fast and only requires two connections.
When i turn the water on water gushes up from the crack adjacent to a pipe coming up through the slab.
No interior walls to use either.
Any pipe trough to the attic it call ventilation pipe they are design to pressurize the drain system and exit of the bad gases by entry of the air trough to those pipe water in drain pipe will go.
It is quite common to leave the old pipes in place after disconnecting them.
I strongly suspect the water main is the same.
It is also important to run the pipe as low in the attic as possible to provide heat from the ceiling below.
If possible run it under the attic insulation for an added layer of protection.
Pex is semi flexible which allows for long continuous runs through joists and studs.
Need to get a hot water line from one end of the house to the other in a ranch with a concrete slab.
With the home run system you install a manifold in the utility room or some area that s close to the main water line and water heater and run a separate pex tube to each fixture as shown above.
While i was under the floor i noticed all the pipes were galvanized steel.
Depending on the style of your home the pipe can be installed in the attic or under a crawl space.
My plan is to run pex thru the attic below the insulation.
I think that the pipe is connected to the water main.
Water line would run over the top of the 2x4 bottom truss cord and i would create a tent over pipe so there was no.