Recent content by esmith

Would you recommend PEX or HDPE or gold (I mean copper)? There's only my wife, me and a 13 year old boy who likes long, hot showers in the house full time. I measured the static pressure and it looks like 68 psi.

I've come up with about 34 fixture units in the new house. Extrapolating from this graph it looks like I'd need an 1 1/4" line. The 2nd order polynomial trendline looks like a pretty good fit to the available data, but its quite an extrapolation and seems kind of conservative. Anyone have...

Thanks for your replies. Here's a picture of a short section of the pipe. It's about 1 9/16 id and 1 15/16 od (where it's not corroded.) Seems like schedule 40 size 1.5" to me. I could get a piece of 1" pex through this piece, but through 270' ???, especially if the corrosion varies as...

We just demolished a 60 year old home and are building a new house. We found that the supply pipe from the city water supply is 1.5" galvanized. It looks to be in pretty good shape, but has some evidence of internal and external corrosion. It's about a 270' run to the meter near the street...