ironspider
Member
Greetings all,
My wife and I are working on a basement remodel and we are planning to add a wetbar up against a wall. Now this wall has both hot and cold supply lines running behind it with joints that are readily accessible. So my plan is going to be to replace those joints with a T joint and then just take the new end of the T to the bar. Simple enough.
My question though is do we want to run these new copper pipes through the studs by way of a bored hole? or by "notching" the 2x4s? Just about every setup I've seen (and, granted, this is mostly from bathroom plumbing work) has the 2x4s "notched" with the pipes in the notch. Is there a reason for this? Or would it be better to run the pipe through a simple drilled hole in the stud (like you would do for running electrical cable through joists0?
Thanks in advance!
My wife and I are working on a basement remodel and we are planning to add a wetbar up against a wall. Now this wall has both hot and cold supply lines running behind it with joints that are readily accessible. So my plan is going to be to replace those joints with a T joint and then just take the new end of the T to the bar. Simple enough.
My question though is do we want to run these new copper pipes through the studs by way of a bored hole? or by "notching" the 2x4s? Just about every setup I've seen (and, granted, this is mostly from bathroom plumbing work) has the 2x4s "notched" with the pipes in the notch. Is there a reason for this? Or would it be better to run the pipe through a simple drilled hole in the stud (like you would do for running electrical cable through joists0?
Thanks in advance!