David S
Member
Hello everyone,
First I have to say this is a great site with many helpful people! I had another thread and have gotten all my questions answered so thank you to everyone! With that said we added on to the back of our home and come to find out we have kitec plumbing.... Many google searches later we have decided we should replumb our home before I close up the ceiling and fix patches from the addition. The plumber quoted a ballpark of $5000 to pipe our home!! I love doing things myself and learning along the way as long as I don't flood anything and I am certain I can do this with a little layout help. With that said I am seeking advice on how to layout my system. I have an idea in my head of what to do but could really use some direction here on what size pipe to use and how to efficiently lay it out the right way. I do have a softener in the garage I plumbed in years ago that is next to my water heater. I have access to both the hard water coming in and soft coming out right there. See my attached pics for the layout of my home. I could put a manifold in the garage or run a branch system? My master bath is the furthest from the hot water so we have to wait for it to warm up in the morning a few minutes and I started reading today about putting in a loop so we would not need to do that? I am in Austin TX so freezing in the garage is non existent.. I can fairly easily fish the pipes from the garage in between floors as the trusses run front to back. Let me know what I can clarify or take pics of! I greatly appreciate your help!
Also, is there a way to do this in stages? I would love to be able to lets say pipe the master bath area first and move on from there since I'm doing it myself I know I will not be fast and don't want to be without water for several weeks at a time. If so what is the best cap to put on a kitec pipe?
First I have to say this is a great site with many helpful people! I had another thread and have gotten all my questions answered so thank you to everyone! With that said we added on to the back of our home and come to find out we have kitec plumbing.... Many google searches later we have decided we should replumb our home before I close up the ceiling and fix patches from the addition. The plumber quoted a ballpark of $5000 to pipe our home!! I love doing things myself and learning along the way as long as I don't flood anything and I am certain I can do this with a little layout help. With that said I am seeking advice on how to layout my system. I have an idea in my head of what to do but could really use some direction here on what size pipe to use and how to efficiently lay it out the right way. I do have a softener in the garage I plumbed in years ago that is next to my water heater. I have access to both the hard water coming in and soft coming out right there. See my attached pics for the layout of my home. I could put a manifold in the garage or run a branch system? My master bath is the furthest from the hot water so we have to wait for it to warm up in the morning a few minutes and I started reading today about putting in a loop so we would not need to do that? I am in Austin TX so freezing in the garage is non existent.. I can fairly easily fish the pipes from the garage in between floors as the trusses run front to back. Let me know what I can clarify or take pics of! I greatly appreciate your help!
Also, is there a way to do this in stages? I would love to be able to lets say pipe the master bath area first and move on from there since I'm doing it myself I know I will not be fast and don't want to be without water for several weeks at a time. If so what is the best cap to put on a kitec pipe?