Any benefit upsizing from meter?

[kybob]

I have 3/4 supply from the city and will be running it ~60 ft from the meter to my manifold (3/4 or 1" inlet TBD). PEX is inexpensive and upsizing from 3/4 to 1 is negligible but is there any benefit to going larger for that 60 ft run if I don't have any plans to upsize the city supply any time soon?

 

[Fitter30]

5 gpm @60lbs. 10gpm @ 60
3/4"- 1.6 psi. 3/4" - 6 psi
1" - .5 psi 1" " - 1.79 psi

 

[Sponsor]

 

[Jeff H Young]

Its extremely common that the line to meter is smaller than the mainline downstream of the meter . a 3/4 metter with a 1 inch or 1 1/4 even 1 1/2 " isnt uncomon depends on your needs personally unless its a tiny house I run 1 inch minimum 60 ft run It would be silly to run small pipe just because a small pipe is there when we size pipe by the book we get MINIMUM pipe size thats not the maximum pipe size

 

[John Gayewski]

Yes there is benifit to upsizing. Especially with pex. Pex has a major loss in pressure compared to copper. The bigger the pipe the less pressure you lose. Plus you can add onto the run of pipe any time and not worry about being too small.

 

[kybob]

Thanks all, I'm going to spend the few extra bucks to upsize.