Caryncbreeef
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So I am a day or two away from my rough. We ran PEX A in the whole house and it went pretty well. In the utility room I put a two stage whole house filter because our water has LOTS of stuff that needs to be removed. I ran a diverter run into the attic (where all the distribution is.
anyway, starting at the intake side of the filter going to the supply I have a 1” Threaded plastic pex insert as recommended by the MFG. then Pex to a brass male threaded to the brass union to a another threaded brass back to pex….. inlet / outlet same. I used PTFE pipe dope as suggested at the local plumbing heavy hardware store. Dripping no matter how much I tighten it.
so my plan is shut valves and isolate filter/unions. Empty water and unscrew everything and clean well.
I tried to watch videos and search online and found nothing of value about this subject. So now I am asking the experts.
tape or dope or both? I have read pages suggesting everything under the sun and nothing.
2nd. Considering I have four threaded sections on each side and unless I redo the pex, the plastic threaded fitting that goes into the filter is connected with a 31/2” pc of PEX to the brass threaded fitting. Same for the second brass threaded fitting, they are stationary as well.
so like -paying chess, what is my first move? Obviously the union is last, just want to get this right.
to top it off I am disabled, so all this work is really difficult for me, I can do it but suffer awful after. I would have paid a plumber if they ever returned phone calls. I got not a single written estimate on a complete plumbing job. The market here is insane.
any suggestions would be most helpful. I’ll send pics in AM. Pipe is all 1”. Expansion PEX
anyway, starting at the intake side of the filter going to the supply I have a 1” Threaded plastic pex insert as recommended by the MFG. then Pex to a brass male threaded to the brass union to a another threaded brass back to pex….. inlet / outlet same. I used PTFE pipe dope as suggested at the local plumbing heavy hardware store. Dripping no matter how much I tighten it.
so my plan is shut valves and isolate filter/unions. Empty water and unscrew everything and clean well.
I tried to watch videos and search online and found nothing of value about this subject. So now I am asking the experts.
tape or dope or both? I have read pages suggesting everything under the sun and nothing.
2nd. Considering I have four threaded sections on each side and unless I redo the pex, the plastic threaded fitting that goes into the filter is connected with a 31/2” pc of PEX to the brass threaded fitting. Same for the second brass threaded fitting, they are stationary as well.
so like -paying chess, what is my first move? Obviously the union is last, just want to get this right.
to top it off I am disabled, so all this work is really difficult for me, I can do it but suffer awful after. I would have paid a plumber if they ever returned phone calls. I got not a single written estimate on a complete plumbing job. The market here is insane.
any suggestions would be most helpful. I’ll send pics in AM. Pipe is all 1”. Expansion PEX