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SO I searched around a bit but this is a pretty unique question I think.
I'm remodeling a mainfloor bath over an unfinished basement. I plan on putting in a bath directly below in the basement down the line a few years when I finish out the basement. At that point I will also replace all the galvanized supply lines with PEX. I'm also going to put in a hydronic radiant floor heating system either this summer or next.
The question is: What is the best way to plumb my new bath fixtures into the existing galvanized so that I am ready to hook in to the pex system down the line?
I was thinking of doing copper from the valves down to the joist space and hooking a short run of pex over to the galvanized. When I tear out all the galvanized I will lose the short runs of pex and replace them with the full runs of pex to the manifold. That way I dont have to buy and sweat a bunch of copper I'll end up tearing out down the line, just a bit of pex.
My concern with running pex all the way to the valves in the bath is that when I do the rest of the plumbing I will have to connect pex to pex instead of that copper to pex. Does it matter?
Did I explain it well enough?
Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm remodeling a mainfloor bath over an unfinished basement. I plan on putting in a bath directly below in the basement down the line a few years when I finish out the basement. At that point I will also replace all the galvanized supply lines with PEX. I'm also going to put in a hydronic radiant floor heating system either this summer or next.
The question is: What is the best way to plumb my new bath fixtures into the existing galvanized so that I am ready to hook in to the pex system down the line?
I was thinking of doing copper from the valves down to the joist space and hooking a short run of pex over to the galvanized. When I tear out all the galvanized I will lose the short runs of pex and replace them with the full runs of pex to the manifold. That way I dont have to buy and sweat a bunch of copper I'll end up tearing out down the line, just a bit of pex.
My concern with running pex all the way to the valves in the bath is that when I do the rest of the plumbing I will have to connect pex to pex instead of that copper to pex. Does it matter?
Did I explain it well enough?
Thanks for your thoughts!