Jimbo
Plumber
I wa visiting my brother in VA last week ( remember Kansas?) and he is in the midst of a large addition ...master suite w/ 2 toilets,lavs, whirlpool and shower stall. Plumber just had finised the rough in. It is all CPVC, which I had never seen installed before.
Questions:
1. It all looks very flimsy, especially at the stub outs. Didn't seem to be supported much. Did I miss something?
2. It looks small, especially the supply to the whirlpool fills. Do they tend to use smaller sizes with this stuff.
3. The shower valve has copper tubes coming out, which seem to be glued directly to the CPVC! Is there an insert in the copper to accept this?
Again, this is all Greek to me, because CPVC was never really used in the city. There is some out in the sticks, mostly modular homes. New construction seems to be all PEX if not copper.
As an aside, brother told me he had specified Toto Carroltons to the builder, who told the plumber, but did not supply him with a spec. sheet. They plumbed the supply stub outs at 5½ OC from waste. I knew that this was not right, so I downloaded a rough-in sheet from Toto website; they faxed it over to the general. Fortunately, the drywall is not up, so this will be easy to fix. But I saved somebody a few bucks by pointing this out.
Questions:
1. It all looks very flimsy, especially at the stub outs. Didn't seem to be supported much. Did I miss something?
2. It looks small, especially the supply to the whirlpool fills. Do they tend to use smaller sizes with this stuff.
3. The shower valve has copper tubes coming out, which seem to be glued directly to the CPVC! Is there an insert in the copper to accept this?
Again, this is all Greek to me, because CPVC was never really used in the city. There is some out in the sticks, mostly modular homes. New construction seems to be all PEX if not copper.
As an aside, brother told me he had specified Toto Carroltons to the builder, who told the plumber, but did not supply him with a spec. sheet. They plumbed the supply stub outs at 5½ OC from waste. I knew that this was not right, so I downloaded a rough-in sheet from Toto website; they faxed it over to the general. Fortunately, the drywall is not up, so this will be easy to fix. But I saved somebody a few bucks by pointing this out.