Running Water Lines In Attic

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Running water lines in attic.

The boiler is located right under the area i would be running the copper line. Installing a refrigerator water line will open up a well of fresh water and ice that you and your family can easily enjoy. My plan is to run pex thru the attic below the insulation. Run the lines under the floor in the basement not unheated crawl space where freezing will be much less likely.

I recently repaired a pipe at the back wall of my home where as l had to dig under the slab and it was reachable. I recently had a slab leak in my home in indianapolis in. I decided it was time to reroute all the water lines. Of course if your refrigerator doesn t have an ice maker or water dispenser or if it has one or both features but you prefer not to use them.

Connecting a water line to your refrigerator will provide it with the water necessary to make ice and dispense filtered water. Otherwise a cold water line run a long distance through a hot attic can take several minutes to deliver cold water to a fixture. While you can certainly use pvc cpvc or copper tubing pex provides a flexible option that uses colors red blue and white that help to differentiate between hot and cold water supply lines. This is the 4th slab leak since i ve owned the home.

30 year or more home built on a slab and water lines are being damaged and lines are breaking. Perhaps you can do one of the following. Can i run water lines through the attic. If there s an air leak insulation like fiberglass acts like a good air filter but is lousy for insulation so ensure you ve bocked any air leaks.

It is never wise to run water lines in an outside wall or above an insulated ceiling in an unheated space. I thought with the heat that rises the ceiling of the kitchen floor of attic line would be okay. For a variety of reasons from pipe damage under a slab to home design constraints water pipes may need to be run or rerouted through a home s attic. You are definitely running a risk of freezing these lines in an unheated space.

Need to get a hot water line from one end of the house to the other in a ranch with a concrete slab. If it is run close to the ceiling and has sufficient insulation above it it will approximate the room temperature and with no water in the line there s nothing to freeze. Viewed 44k times 2. No interior walls to use either.

In addition since pex is commonly sold in 100 foot coils the material can be used for longer continuous runs reducing the number of joints and. Use foam insulation that comes in sleeves and fits around the pipe. Existing ranch has very low ceilings 7 8 so dropping any ceilings will not work. Running pex in an attic.

Water line would run over the top of the 2x4 bottom truss cord and i would create a tent over pipe so there was no. I now have a water leak that could be further under the slab and not reachable. Because there are.