Hoping you smart folks can help me plan my plumbing upgrade correctly. I am planning to use Uponor Wirsbo PEX and EP (plastic) fittings.
I have attached a diagram of the remodeled kitchen, laundry, and hose bib that will need new supply lines. The line currently supplying the whole house is 3/4" galvanized steel and the fixture branches (everything past the water heater) are 1/2".
Eventually I will be swapping out all the galvanized pipe for PEX but for now I am just working on the kitchen and laundry. Should the new PEX trunks be 3/4" reducing down to 1/2" at the Tee supplying the fixture? Or should I just use 1/2" pipe throughout?
These lines will be running in the floor joist bays so I will have to make both horizontal and vertical turns. When is it appropriate to bend the PEX and when is it necessary to install an elbow?
At the fixture, is it better to use a copper stub ell or the Wirsbo drop ear bend support? (I don't have much experience sweating copper!)
Thanks in advance for your help!
I have attached a diagram of the remodeled kitchen, laundry, and hose bib that will need new supply lines. The line currently supplying the whole house is 3/4" galvanized steel and the fixture branches (everything past the water heater) are 1/2".
Eventually I will be swapping out all the galvanized pipe for PEX but for now I am just working on the kitchen and laundry. Should the new PEX trunks be 3/4" reducing down to 1/2" at the Tee supplying the fixture? Or should I just use 1/2" pipe throughout?
These lines will be running in the floor joist bays so I will have to make both horizontal and vertical turns. When is it appropriate to bend the PEX and when is it necessary to install an elbow?
At the fixture, is it better to use a copper stub ell or the Wirsbo drop ear bend support? (I don't have much experience sweating copper!)
Thanks in advance for your help!