insulated pex deal
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I am in kansas city and will be installing a new boiler outside but need 150' of it. Can it be spliced together and if so is it even recommended?
rowerwet
Minister of Fire
central boiler has thermopex splice stuff in the catalog, not sure how much I would trust it. if you did the pex splices with sharkbites they wouldn't leak, but the heat you could loose from that joint would be hard to stop
HeatFarmer
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Forget about using it underground, but for that price & insulated, it could certainly be used for some of the shorter runs of above ground piping........
woodsmaster
Minister of Fire
at that price I'd probably consider having 1 splice undeground.
If I lived closer I'd buy some just to have around.
If I lived closer I'd buy some just to have around.
huffdawg
Minister of Fire
Heres a link from Uponor . I can't find anywhere where it says you cant make splices or connections in underground applications . I would use closed cell foam after splicing.
http://www.uponorpro.com/~/media/Extranet/Files/manuals/PLU_InsG_P600_0911LR.aspx?sc_lang=en
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http://www.uponorpro.com/~/media/Extranet/Files/manuals/PLU_InsG_P600_0911LR.aspx?sc_lang=en
Huff
I bought a section just to keep for future projects as woodmaster mentioned. $25 bucks, why not. My thought would be to use it as a sleeve to shove 1 or 1'1/4" tube through. Then all you would need to do is connect and seal the outer black sleeve. You can purchase couplings for that black corrugated drain piping. There is a wide selection of sizes in the pile from 3/4" dual tube up to single 3". With the larger size you could slide multiple tubes inside it.
It's only a deal if you live nearby and have time to rummage thru the pile. And a means to haul it, it's fairly gnarly to coil and handle. I bought this dual 1-1/2" piece to run some lines across the ceiling of my shop. You couldn't buy insulation for that price much less the tube and covering.
I suspect this was donated to the store by nearby Watts Radiant, as there are piles of 1/2 and 3/4" water pex tubing over there also, the red, whit and blue colored non barrier stuff at $.20 per foot. here is the spec sheet from Watts Radiant.
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It's only a deal if you live nearby and have time to rummage thru the pile. And a means to haul it, it's fairly gnarly to coil and handle. I bought this dual 1-1/2" piece to run some lines across the ceiling of my shop. You couldn't buy insulation for that price much less the tube and covering.
I suspect this was donated to the store by nearby Watts Radiant, as there are piles of 1/2 and 3/4" water pex tubing over there also, the red, whit and blue colored non barrier stuff at $.20 per foot. here is the spec sheet from Watts Radiant.
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mr.fixit
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hr, where's the snow in that picture? Isn't it winter down there?
That does look like high quality tubing though.
That does look like high quality tubing though.
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