Reposition Pex Pipe

[Sid.Santo]

A plumber installed some PEX water lines for me in the mechanical room. He left before I noticed the lines are quite low.

Can I just push them up? Will I be risking a leak? Especially at the circled connection?

If it's easy to do I'd rather not have to call the plumber back.

 

[JohnCT]

Not sure of your question, but if you want to simply dress the new red and blue pipe upward you can as long as you don't put any stress on the fittings. If you're talking about rotating the fitting inside the pipe, you can try but it may not spin easily with a compression crimp. If it does cause a leak, it will be a drip not a deluge

John

 

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[Sid.Santo]

Not sure of your question, but if you want to simply dress the new red and blue pipe upward you can as long as you don't put any stress on the fittings. If you're talking about rotating the fitting inside the pipe, you can try but it may not spin easily with a compression crimp. If it does cause a leak, it will be a drip not a deluge

John

Thanks. I'm not a plumber .

I'm not sure how to "dress" the pipe upward. I guess it must flex.

In general how strong are pex pipe connections?

It's quite low. If someone grabbed on to it and pulled without realizing it's a water pipe, would it leak easily?

 

[Eman85]

I'm not a professional plumber FWIW, but I've installed a bunch of PEX. Not sure what I'm looking at. Is that looking straight up at the bottom of the floor joists? PEX is pretty flexible and you look to have brass fittings but twisting and putting pressure on the connection could cause a leak.

 

[Sid.Santo]

I'm not a professional plumber FWIW, but I've installed a bunch of PEX. Not sure what I'm looking at. Is that looking straight up at the bottom of the floor joists? PEX is pretty flexible and you look to have brass fittings but twisting and putting pressure on the connection could cause a leak.

Correct. In the basement and looking straight up at the floor joists.

The blue line comes down and is only 6 feet of the floor.

I want to avoid people bumping their head on it. Or not thinking and grabbing on to it while working in the mechanical room

 

[Reach4]

PEX should be supported every 32 horizontal inches or less.

 

[Eman85]

Maybe back up a little and give us some perspective? What does the blue line go to? There's a red line and a black iron pipe going down also.

 

[WorthFlorida]

It's at an angle because it looks like there wasn't much slack to crimp the fitting flush with the floor joist. The crimp tool total surrounds the clamp.

 

[Sid.Santo]

Maybe back up a little and give us some perspective? What does the blue line go to? There's a red line and a black iron pipe going down also.

Here's a wider photo

 

[Eman85]

I can't see any "pushing them up" as a way to get any better. I can see how a couple of fittings and a crimp tool it could be made to look professional.

 

[Sid.Santo]

The plumber stopped by and pushed it up about 6 inches. It's a little better now