How To Hook Up A Hotwaterheater To Pex Flooring

Easy floor heat using a new or used hot water heater here i have a quick overview of my floor heating using a hot water heater as the heat source.

How to hook up a hotwaterheater to pex flooring.

Connect the copper pipe to the other end of the copper stub and apply the same soldering procedure. Another method is to solder in a tee and a pex supply adapter. This floor layout shows 4 loops attached to one manifold. Diy how to hook up a hot water tank with pex tubing.

To prepare the pex tubing use a tubing cutter to cut at least a half inch of pex to make sure the opening on the tubing is cut square. Use a pair of slip joint pliers or your fingers to slide the crimp ring up. Even though they are both plastic pex tubing has different properties than polybutylene. It s been used safely for portable water in the united states for the past two decades.

It is critical to uncoil the pex in a linear fashion to prevent kinking. Complaints about early pex water systems cropped up when the fittings used to connect the pipes failed and leaked. Pex is tougher can withstand heat better and harder to cut through than polybutylene. A pex un coiler can make this process much easier.

There s a little shoulder on all the fittings that s where you slide the pex to. Read the label to find the compatible fitting. Slip a crimp ring onto the pipe and then slide the pipe into the fitting. Step 4 prepare the pex tubing.

Pex tubing is cross linked polyethylene. Here the manifold is placed in the center of the floor making it easy to keep our loop lengths even. You can also use a stab in tee to connect pex fittings supply to cpvc. Although this was hooked up without soldering this will have to be addressed down the road.

Then slip the pex supply tubing over the adapter and attach it with your chosen connection method right. For the perfect crimp start by cutting the pex and make sure it s straight. Some areas don t allow stab in fittings to be concealed.