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Ok, long time lurker first time poster. No stranger to plumbing. Not my main occupation though.
I'm building a new home right now. 3000ft, costs escalating, value declining. I'm in a bind. My bank has asked me to save money. But being an engineer, I refuse to compromise performance/quality.
House is a 2 story, victorian replica. 2.5 bath, powder room first floor, two full baths second floor. The kids bath and powder room are directly above/below. The master bath is on the opposite side of the house. The kitchen is on the way to the master bath.
The master bath has some high end fixtures / big garden tub / shower /etc.
I'd planned to plumb completely in copper, and I prefer copper due to the antibacterial qualities, and longevity. However as you all know it's running at historic highs now. I would do pex as I am comfortable with it, but we have mice here and I've been told (and seen) that they think it's cheddar cheese. House is too expensive to lose to water damage.
So what I've been considering is plumbing each bath area in copper as a bath group, so the copper would be in the walls, then feeding with pex or cpvc to the entry point in the basement of the bath group. If copper ever falls in price, I could replumb in the basement. This method would save me a few hundred feet of 3/4 or 1 inch copper pipe. (We're doing a recirculator for the master bath due to the distance, so there's an addditional pipe for return hot)
Can anyone give opinions on this sort of arrangement?
I'm building a new home right now. 3000ft, costs escalating, value declining. I'm in a bind. My bank has asked me to save money. But being an engineer, I refuse to compromise performance/quality.
House is a 2 story, victorian replica. 2.5 bath, powder room first floor, two full baths second floor. The kids bath and powder room are directly above/below. The master bath is on the opposite side of the house. The kitchen is on the way to the master bath.
The master bath has some high end fixtures / big garden tub / shower /etc.
I'd planned to plumb completely in copper, and I prefer copper due to the antibacterial qualities, and longevity. However as you all know it's running at historic highs now. I would do pex as I am comfortable with it, but we have mice here and I've been told (and seen) that they think it's cheddar cheese. House is too expensive to lose to water damage.
So what I've been considering is plumbing each bath area in copper as a bath group, so the copper would be in the walls, then feeding with pex or cpvc to the entry point in the basement of the bath group. If copper ever falls in price, I could replumb in the basement. This method would save me a few hundred feet of 3/4 or 1 inch copper pipe. (We're doing a recirculator for the master bath due to the distance, so there's an addditional pipe for return hot)
Can anyone give opinions on this sort of arrangement?