Best Thing For Your Home
Repiping your home could be the one best thing you could do to it. You know that once repiped, everything is brand new and you are bypassing old mistakes, old leaks, water damage and future slab leaks. You will instantly have better water pressure to your home, and also cleaner water to your home. We recommend Aqua-pex pipe, which doesn’t cause corrosion, cheaper than copper and you get more time for your money.
Pex Pipe Advantages
PEX (or crosslinked polyethylene) was introduced in the US around 1980 and is often seen in radiant heat flooring applications, but has now become commonplace for repiping and plumbing repairs.
PEX popularity can be attributed to many factors, includingcost, flexibility, resistance to scale and chlorine, and fast installation with fewer connections and fittings. PEX is also more efficient as it doesn’t lose heat like a copper pipe will. Although PEX is not suitable for use outside, it is much more resistant to freezing temperatures and bursting.
Pex is color coded based on water temperature (red is hot, blue is cold, white is any) which is a handy feature.
Installing Pex Tubing can be done with cinch or crimp rings and a cinch clamp tool or compression or stab-in fittings, either technique is easier and less toxic than sweating copper. Another thing to consider when making the ultimate decision is during a Earth Shift/Earthquake the Pex pipe will move without damage more than copper will. If copper moves in the exact same way as above there would be a leak if not a flood immediately. Pex is definetly the future.
What is PEX pipe made of?
Almost all PEX used for pipe and tubing is made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). PEX contains cross-linked bonds in the polymer structure, changing the thermoplastic to a thermoset. Cross-linking is accomplished during or after the extrusion of the tubing.