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you're right: one advantage to PEX is price of PEX itself. Other advantages: easier to install, no sweated joints, easy to color code, of no value to meth addic
by RyJones 9y ago
you're right: one advantage to PEX is price of PEX itself. Other advantages: easier to install, no sweated joints, easy to color code, of no value to meth addicts. No sweating lowers the fire risk (which tbh is very low, but non zero).
I suspect even if PEX cost 5x copper tubing, the TCO for PEX would still be lower over the lifetime of the plumbing. Shipping and moving around a spool of PEX is much easier than monkeying with a load of copper tubing.
I wish the US would join Canada in dropping the penny.
- gerbilly 9y agoI'm not so sure about pex though. Seems like a cheap replacement to copper pipe. There have been defects causing lots of water damage. Plus I'm not sure i want my drinking water sitting in plastic all day picking up whatever chemicals they used to make the pipe. Copper is naturally antibacterial, and just seems safer to me, given that we've been using it for decades.