[AT] Air lines, now Water Lines

Indiana Robinson robinson46176 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 06:32:57 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Farmer,
>
> I didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with PVC.
>
> Another advantage of PEX for house plumbing is that it's cheap enough that
> you can fab up a manifold and "homerun" all of your lines so that they go
> from the manifold directly to one fixture.  By doing that, if you ever do
> have a problem all you have to do is pull out and replace one run of pipe
> and all of the fittings are outside of walls and chases.  That might be a
> bit of overkill but some folks like to do things like that.  I have one
> friend who never really had to worry about money.  When he built his house
> he ran every electric outlet, light fixture and appliance on seperate wires
> "homerun" back to a huge panel in his basement.   Or actually a bunch of
> panels linked together.  Every lamp, recepticle, etc. is on it's own
> breaker.   Now that's overkill but when he has a problem he surely knows
> where to look!
>
> Charlie
>
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