Pex Routed Through Attic

This allows plumbing to run from the basement to the attic.

Pex routed through attic.

Safe for potable water pex is the red and blue flexible tubing that s used to make gentle bends around obstructions in your attic and is perfect for adding water supply to hard to reach locations. 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. Because there are many temperature. 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.

Cross linked polyethylene tubing better known as pex pipe has revolutionized plumbing installations in new home construction and remodeling. Such as at night if the attic temp is 15 deg f. Pex is semi flexible which allows for long continuous runs through joists. Munkywrench ga ok guys i have a couple questions i have a ranch home on a slab with copper lines in the slab.

A chase is a false wall that creates a cavity used to conceal plumbing. Use pex pipe when running pipe from a slab to an attic use cross linked polyethylene tubing or pex instead of copper. The chase can be stacked from floor to floor of the home. Similar to the chase is the soffit.

Repiping slab piping through attic with pex. Pex type is forgiving when it freezes as far as breakage but insulating an exposed water line does little to keep it from freezing. Insulation only slows the time when it will freeze after the water is not running through the pipe. Needless to say i have a leak and know that at this point fixing it is like stopping to put a bandaid on before walking through razor wire.