Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Colorful

The girls thought that I made it really colorful going through the opening for all the wires and pex tubing. The yellow is 12 gauge wire, orange is 10 gauge wire, black is coax cable, grey is cat 5 cable, beige is an extra cable just in case I have to pull a wire later, blue is for cold water, and red is for the hot water. There will be more pex tubing running through here by the time I get it all done. I am going to redo the 2nd floor bathroom with pex also. The pipe running up there right now is galvanized pipe and it must be pretty well clogged.
This is a picture of what it looks like at the third floor. I have to figure out how to insulate the pex really well to keep it from freezing. The area where it is will be an unheated part of the attic. I am hoping that I will just be able to bury it in blown in insulation and that will be good enough. This is my first time working with pex. It has been easy so far. I couldn't imagine trying to run copper pipe from the third floor to the basement.

My drywall will be here tomorrow morning. I should be finished with the plumbing by tomorrow too. I was able to finish the wiring today. I ran out of fittings for my drain lines so I had to stop.

1 comment:

npaden said...

Looks like you had a blast on your birthday!

My travel trailer uses pex, and if you are in a bind you can use the quick connect compression fittings that are awesome although they are a little expensive.