1000Sq Ft Retirement Weekend Accomplishments

[karoc]

The past few days I’ve been working on plumbing and electrical. For plumbing been running Pex through middle of my bldg which is 78’ long including the garage. 3/4 pex I installed a tee’s to allow me to tap on with 1/2 pex for each fixture and continue on with 3/4. What makes me nervous is that this is to easy, nothing is ever easy for me. Has to be something wrong. I have say that these expanding fittings is awesome. After expanding then slipping on fittings it’s goes back to normal size. But those sleeves now has kinda dome shape. I don’t see how it will ever leak, which I hope a leak never happens. Yet to be tested at later date. One pics is the Landry rm/ mechanical, which is where water supply will enter house and the tankless be installed. East Tx been getting lot rain with flooding so I work indoors on rough framing for door to go from living rm to garage which this door was afterthought. Just got tired squeezing between studs, yes I’m healthy size. I’m no framer and there is mistakes, like trying to cut studs in place free handed. Just don’t have wrest strength anymore. So for a three day weekend, it was little productive, plumbing, electrical, framing. Thanks for looking

 

[CraigStu]

"What makes me nervous is that this is to easy, nothing is ever easy for me."
I have never worked w/ pex other than small 2ft pieces for outside faucets. But when we had our house built the construction foremen said it was the greatest thing to come long in decades. He said they could always fudge the smaller pvc a little but had to be very careful not to overdo it. But the pex is like plumbing w/ a noodle. He especially loved that they could reduce the number of joints by maybe half which he figured cut the number of possible leaks by the same.

 

[DGersic]

I did my whole house in PEX last year. Great stuff. The Milwaukee expander tool makes short work of the connections, and the pipe is relatively easy to work with.

i haven’t touched a hand saw in years. Get a miter saw. Save your arms.