OldFart
New Member
OK, here's the problem. I'm getting ready to replace an existing lo-boy hot water heater that is under my kitchen counter. I live in a very small house that was built ten years ago. The HW heater was installed by the builder. I have read here that code requires 18 inches of copper to a HW heater. It is currently connected with PEX! There is also very little room to even use a flex copper pipe here. The entire house is plumbed with PEX. The pipe to the heater comes out of the wall, and is only about twenty inches long. So how am I expected to connect this, and be up to code?