more later, just pics now...
8:36 pm
Truly amazing how easy plumbing is with this system. Connecting distribution lines to the manifolds supply ports is painless; just square off the end of the pex tubing, slide on the compression fitting and screw on to the manifold. The other end is almost as easy. Connect a tubing support which bends the end of the pipe at a 90 degree angle to a pex plastic stub out brace which is in turn connected to two studs and you have your stub out. Attach a pex fixture fitting to the stubout with a crimp band which takes about 30 seconds and you have a completely plumbed water supply line.
Compare this to the original copper installation I had planned: Solder first a t-fitting to the existing copper supply pipe, add a soldered elbow, run a length of copper pipe under the house to the supply point, attach an elbow, a short length of pipe and finally an adapter for the fixture fitting. All parts need to be soldered, many measured and cut. This approach took me several hours for one fixture. With Pex, about 15 min from manifold to stringing pipe over rafters and down a wall and connecting to a fitting adapter. WOW!
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| 14 port Manibloc Water Supply Distribution System. |
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| Col water supply line with valve at the bottom, small bathroom take-off on bottom right port |
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| Deb tore down the paneling on the kitchen wall and we discovered that apparently this is where a washer/dryer had once been plumbed. |
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| Reference photo for wiring. Jason installed insulation here today |
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