Pavesa
New Member
Hi
I live in an old house and I'm just finishing off installation of an upstairs bathroom, to date, there's been no water upstairs, everything is downstairs including the current bathroom, with water fed up from the basement. I've been able to connect the upstairs cold to a pipe that connects direct to the main as it comes into the building and I'm looking for advise on where to connect the hot. Issues I'm concerned about having too long a run from the hot water tank so it takes ages to get warm water upstairs and is wasteful of heat and also concerned not to lose pressure upstairs if someone turns on a hot tap downstairs (most importantly for safety, I think I avoid this by having the cold directly connected to the main). I'm sure there's a standard way of going about this. My initial thought is to connect directly to the pipe that comes off the hot water tank but I'm pretty much a novice so it would be helpful to have a few leads on this. I'm using PEX.
Thanks for any thoughts...
I live in an old house and I'm just finishing off installation of an upstairs bathroom, to date, there's been no water upstairs, everything is downstairs including the current bathroom, with water fed up from the basement. I've been able to connect the upstairs cold to a pipe that connects direct to the main as it comes into the building and I'm looking for advise on where to connect the hot. Issues I'm concerned about having too long a run from the hot water tank so it takes ages to get warm water upstairs and is wasteful of heat and also concerned not to lose pressure upstairs if someone turns on a hot tap downstairs (most importantly for safety, I think I avoid this by having the cold directly connected to the main). I'm sure there's a standard way of going about this. My initial thought is to connect directly to the pipe that comes off the hot water tank but I'm pretty much a novice so it would be helpful to have a few leads on this. I'm using PEX.
Thanks for any thoughts...