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Hi all -
Found out about this site from the good folks at johnbridge.com.
I am in the midst of relocating a bathroom. As long as I had the floor ripped out and the majority of the plumbing entry points exposed, I decided to repipe the entire house (two story). Existing pipe was galvanized from the 60's and in pretty bad shape. Having grown up around critters that eat through plastic irrigation lines, I opted to use copper for the repipe. 1" for the primary, 3/4" for branches, and 1/2" for terminals.
I have two questions:
1) After getting back from my day at work, I noticed my plumber (a really good guy, btw) had used Type M rigid to begin the repipe. Type M meets the code here, but I am the type to overbuild ...so I would have used Type L out of hand. But is it the consensus here that type M is just fine? Or do I tell him to start over and/or continue with type L? (Like I said, he is a good guy who has done other work for me, so I am having this done T&M; any additonal cost will all be on me. I am ok with spending the money if it will make an actual difference in performance or longevity).
2) When doing the connection at the outside of the house, it was discovered that the old galvy had completely deteriorated - it literally fell apart in his hands. Amazing the it held together at all. So he is going to replace the line to the meter with 1 1/4" schedule 80. Is this more than sufficent, or should I be pressing for Type K copper?
Thanks for any help guys!
- Darren
Found out about this site from the good folks at johnbridge.com.
I am in the midst of relocating a bathroom. As long as I had the floor ripped out and the majority of the plumbing entry points exposed, I decided to repipe the entire house (two story). Existing pipe was galvanized from the 60's and in pretty bad shape. Having grown up around critters that eat through plastic irrigation lines, I opted to use copper for the repipe. 1" for the primary, 3/4" for branches, and 1/2" for terminals.
I have two questions:
1) After getting back from my day at work, I noticed my plumber (a really good guy, btw) had used Type M rigid to begin the repipe. Type M meets the code here, but I am the type to overbuild ...so I would have used Type L out of hand. But is it the consensus here that type M is just fine? Or do I tell him to start over and/or continue with type L? (Like I said, he is a good guy who has done other work for me, so I am having this done T&M; any additonal cost will all be on me. I am ok with spending the money if it will make an actual difference in performance or longevity).
2) When doing the connection at the outside of the house, it was discovered that the old galvy had completely deteriorated - it literally fell apart in his hands. Amazing the it held together at all. So he is going to replace the line to the meter with 1 1/4" schedule 80. Is this more than sufficent, or should I be pressing for Type K copper?
Thanks for any help guys!
- Darren