Gentlemen,
Still lookin for pics on plumbing a utility sink and water supply. Just looking
to stub it up for now. I'll get the permit but will hook it up later. I want to
have it before the concrete gets poured. Most of the books I have read are
not very helpful. I need some pics !! Thanks guys
Are you going to be coming out of the floor or out of the wall? I am taking that it is the floor, which I don't have any pics of. But one word of advice....if you use copper line, wrap it with the foam insulation or something to isolate it from the gravel and the concrete. Reason being, I have a friend that had a remodeled one room school house and they poured a concrete floor. They did not wrap the pipe and according to some plumbers (although I cannot validate the theory) the concrete reacted with the copper and it developed a leak. This plumbing ran from the utility room, to the bathroom, to the kitchen. We isolated the leak between the bathroom and the kitchen. Cost prohibitive to tear the floor up along with tearing out every cabinet. We were able to tear out some drywall, and with the way the house was remodeled, we were able to run a new line in the wall and underneath the kitchen cabinet. So whether the gravel base, concrete, corrosion, was either one or all of the culprits, design it where it is repairable. In the country from a well, waterlines are 1" plastic / vinyl lines. If you are coming out of the floor with your lines, I would have any connections made in some type of a box with a lid. This can be as simple as forming up a wood box and pouring around it with your concrete. Then if anything happens down the road, any repairs would be simple. Just a suggestion
