Pex Water Pipe Underground

Pex withstands chemical damage high temperature and high pressure.

Pex water pipe underground. If you haven t heard of pex or are unfamiliar with the product and your plumber is recommending it you may be. Pex since it can expand resists freezing more effectively than rigid pipe but pex can still burst if water freezes in a line. Connecting pex tubing use a copper crimp tool to push copper connectors into the end of the pex tubing. Pex has several advantages over copper pipes.

But if you re doing a medium to large plumbing job you ll usually save on pex over copper. Pex tubing is approved for direct burial outdoors a practice most often necessary when running a water supply line to a house. Made remember you still need a fill line or a way to top off the furnace if it isn t being hooked up to a hot water heater. Pex is available in a variety of lengths from short 10 foot pieces for small repairs to rolls over 500 feet long which are used to install a home s entire water supply system.

A b c 1 a 1 b 5 material. Potable water 7 brand. Sharkbite 5 ecopoly 1 zurn 1 pex type. It s also known as pex tubing.

Pex crimp tool 3 4 pex fittings underground rated pex fittings manifold pex fittings plastic pipe. Pex is cheaper than copper. If you only need two pex pipes for a garage for example you can use our pre made insulated pex pipe for 4 97 a foot for a 4 pipe with two 1 pex pipes u s. Get free shipping on qualified underground rated pex fittings or buy online pick up in store today in the plumbing department.

Cross linked polyethylene or pex is a plastic water supply line suitable for both buried and above ground applications. Some of the savings will go towards purchasing a special tool to install the fittings. The trench that the pex tubing will be placed in should be dug below the frost line which is approximately at 3 to 4 feet deep in colder regions. Half inch pex tubing costs about one third the price of copper.

As a result it s a must to bury the tubing below the frost line.