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If any of your spouses or significant others say "oh, what a quaint old house! We should buy that!"

Check the mother ****ing plumbing and mother ****ing pipes!

****ing locked those ****s on there with mother ****ing cement practically!
 
#11,880
#11,880
Grand Vol said:
If any of your spouses or significant others say "oh, what a quaint old house! We should buy that!"

Check the mother ****ing plumbing and mother ****ing pipes!

****ing locked those ****s on there with mother ****ing cement practically!
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Don't you feel better now that you have hot water?
 
#11,881
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Gramps said:
Don't you feel better now that you have hot water?
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That's the ****ing problem. I don't have hot water yet. Because some dumb **** decided not to check the fittings on the pipes before he went to Lowes today. So hence I don't have the right fittings yet and hence, no hot water...

But I did manage to put in a shut off valve on the intake pipe. Something that might have been useful earlier today.

But anyway, those nice old people that sold me the house were all charming and whatnot. ****ing snakes. They put just enough band-aids on stuff that it looked fine until I move in. And after that? WHAMMO, got me good ****ers!
 
#11,883
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Grand Vol said:
That's the ****ing problem. I don't have hot water yet. Because some dumb **** decided not to check the fittings on the pipes before he went to Lowes today. So hence I don't have the right fittings yet and hence, no hot water...

But I did manage to put in a shut off valve on the intake pipe. Something that might have been useful earlier today.

But anyway, those nice old people that sold me the house were all charming and whatnot. ****ing snakes. They put just enough band-aids on stuff that it looked fine until I move in. And after that? WHAMMO, got me good ****ers!
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I thought you had been in that place for awhile?
 
#11,884
#11,884
Grand Vol said:
I'm probably going to end up replacing all the pipes in the house.

Anyone use Pex? Worth the investment?
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Pex is not expensive and it is the easiest stuff ever. Most young plumbers these days don't even know how to sweat copper. If you buy a set of crimper that will crimp 3/4 as well as 1/2" you can repl u mb y I ur whole house easily. Those crimper are a little pricy but not nearly as 3xpensive as the copper they will make obsolete...as well as the fact that most people who aren't plumbers can't sweat copper...but any moron can run pex...

Edit...if the Mai. Line coming into your house is good, you may be able to get by with buy I ng the cheaper crimper that only work for half inch...only the main line in should be 3/4, everything else I. Your house should be half inch.
 
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Obsessed said:
I thought you had been in that place for awhile?
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Four years this past November. I've been ignoring some stuff until I could get to it, but others have popped up (like the roofing shingles on my back porch that suddenly started peeling off) as well as electrical problems, plumbing problems, etc.

ETA: Make that four years. My simple math was off.
 
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#11,888
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marcusluvsvols said:
Pex is not expensive and it is the easiest stuff ever. Most young plumbers these days don't even know how to sweat copper. If you buy a set of crimper that will crimp 3/4 as well as 1/2" you can repl u mb y I ur whole house easily. Those crimper are a little pricy but not nearly as 3xpensive as the copper they will make obsolete...as well as the fact that most people who aren't plumbers can't sweat copper...but any moron can run pex...

Edit...if the Mai. Line coming into your house is good, you may be able to get by with buy I ng the cheaper crimper that only work for half inch...only the main line in should be 3/4, everything else I. Your house should be half inch.
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The main line coming in is 3/4, but it also is coming through the basement wall and under the front patio. So I'm in no great hurry to replace the main coming in.

Interior wise, it's all 3/4 inside the house. But I was thinking of putting in a distribution box as opposed to running the single line that's currently in place.
 
#11,890
#11,890
Grand Vol said:
Four years this past November. I've been ignoring some stuff until I could get to it, but others have popped up (like the roofing shingles on my back porch that suddenly started peeling off) as well as electrical problems, plumbing problems, etc.

ETA: Make that four years. My simple math was off.
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That's what I was thinking.

We have had similar issues, such as yourself, the last 6 months.

My sympathies.
 
#11,891
#11,891
I need to look in to this pex...

I've run miles of water lines and plumbed irrigation. I've never heard of pex before.
 
#11,892
#11,892
Grand Vol said:
The main line coming in is 3/4, but it also is coming through the basement wall and under the front patio. So I'm in no great hurry to replace the main coming in.

Interior wise, it's all 3/4 inside the house. But I was thinking of putting in a distribution box as opposed to running the single line that's currently in place.
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Putting in a distribution box will do away with all the 90* fittings which are a little restrictive with Pex. The Pex fittings go inside the pipe , rather than the pipe sliding into the fitting like copper and PVC, therefore they are a little smaller.

You can use 3/4" going into the dist box, and 1/2" lines coming out of the box and curve them gently to each fixture. It will take longer for hot water to reach each fixture though, because the hot won't already be in the main line. It has to travel from the box to each fixture. In other words, you can shave with the hot water in your sink, and still have to wait for the hot to reach your shower. from the box.

If you run a single main line throughout( and no dist box), use 3/4 and then 1/2" going up to each fixture like now.
 
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Grand Vol said:
That's the ****ing problem. I don't have hot water yet. Because some dumb **** decided not to check the fittings on the pipes before he went to Lowes today. So hence I don't have the right fittings yet and hence, no hot water...

But I did manage to put in a shut off valve on the intake pipe. Something that might have been useful earlier today.

But anyway, those nice old people that sold me the house were all charming and whatnot. ****ing snakes. They put just enough band-aids on stuff that it looked fine until I move in. And after that? WHAMMO, got me good ****ers!
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This is exactly why I spent $25,000 on a rental house before I sold it. I fixed everything from plumbing, to painting, to roofing, to heat and air, Master Dry basement waterproofing, kitchen and bath updating. All on a $100,000 house. I didn't want someone mad at me over it. I didn't realize it was in that bad of a shape until a tenant who lived there 10 years moved out. She never complained, and I never went in the house.

I am $45,500 into a remodel of my brother's house, which had nothing done to it in 40 years. I can't get over maybe $140,000 for it, and I need to spend another $10,000. Financially, it would have made more sense to sell it for $85,000 as is, but he liked his neighbors, and I didn't want to sell it to a bunch of trash. I have to live with myself too.
 
#11,895
#11,895
1972 Grad said:
Putting in a distribution box will do away with all the 90* fittings which are a little restrictive with Pex. The Pex fittings go inside the pipe , rather than the pipe sliding into the fitting like copper and PVC, therefore they are a little smaller.

You can use 3/4" going into the dist box, and 1/2" lines coming out of the box and curve them gently to each fixture. It will take longer for hot water to reach each fixture though, because the hot won't already be in the main line. It has to travel from the box to each fixture. In other words, you can shave with the hot water in your sink, and still have to wait for the hot to reach your shower. from the box.

If you run a single main line throughout( and no dist box), use 3/4 and then 1/2" going up to each fixture like now.
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I was thinking of putting the distro box right next to the water heater. The main line runs into the house about 35 feet away (as I'd have to run it around the corners of the basement) and that'd be at least a 70 foot round trip for the hot water just to get back to the bathroom. So a pex line from the basement wall where the main line comes in, but put a shut off right at the wall. Run the main line over to the water heater and go from there.

If I do it with a distro box, do I have to do it all at once or can I phase it in?
 
#11,898
#11,898
Grand Vol said:
I was thinking of putting the distro box right next to the water heater. The main line runs into the house about 35 feet away (as I'd have to run it around the corners of the basement) and that'd be at least a 70 foot round trip for the hot water just to get back to the bathroom. So a pex line from the basement wall where the main line comes in, but put a shut off right at the wall. Run the main line over to the water heater and go from there.

If I do it with a distro box, do I have to do it all at once or can I phase it in?
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Great video for you on youtube. "Hot and cold: Manabloc Plumbing System."
 
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