Recent content by jmk823

Hello all, I am removing all the old plumbing in my home (copper) and replacing it with PEX. I would like to install a manifold. The incoming water line to my home is 3/4". Many of the (affordable) manifolds I have found have a 1" trunk. Will it cause any problems to use a larger...

Thanks for all your help. After considering all the associated costs I realized the cost for materials alone would be considerable. I brought in a highly reccomended plumber who specializes in this kind of work in my kind of house (ie: old). He reccomended using PEX and a three-manifold...

I spent some time looking over my system this weekend and I noticed that each radiator only uses a single monoflow tee. Upstream is a standard tee (as far as I can tell from an outside inspection), downstream is a monoflo. If I was redoing the system in copper I imagine this would still be...

John - Thanks for the tip about the air getting trapped. I hadn't thought of that. That certainly makes me reconsider my plan for doing this project piecemeal. As far as placement of the tees the current system has many, many tees placed close together (8" or less). In one area in...

Hello all, I have a monoflow radiator system that heats a basement and two above-ground floors. There are a total of 14 radiators. The system gets the house nice and toasty in the winter. The only problem I have is that the main loop in the basement is loooow. The basement ceiling is...

Hello all, Thank you for your advice. We ended up having a licensed plumber do the installation - I got called out of town and was gone a few months. When I got back the job was done and my wife had even hired a contractor to finish the bathroom. I have no idea what the plumber did but my...

Doherty - The drain for our washer uses an air admittance valve. That was recently installed by a licensed plumber and passed inspection. I assumed something like that could not be used for a bathroom... mainly because it seemed like such an easy solution I thought that there must be a catch.

Poking around my basement this afternoon I found an unused vent. It looks like it was cut out of the current plumbing system by the plumber we hired to do the work for our kitchen. It was hidden up between the joists against a far wall in the basement which is why I did not see it before. I...

It sounds like venting is very important:) I live in Maryland and we do have freezing winters. I will check the local code to see what it says about this. Thanks!

Hello all, I've referred to posts here a lot over the last few months. Now it is time to tackle a big project (for me at least) and I want to make sure I do it right. I would like to add a bathroom with shower in my basement. The floor is a 4" slab. There is an existing drain (3"...