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Hey Shannon,thought I logon to see your basement progress.
ReplyDeleteI notice you're using plastic plumbing - how informed was this decision? I was pulling my hair out last week over plumbing - copper vs. plastic, pvc vs. cpvc, pex vs. superpex. Our plumber convinced us that plastic was the way to the future (price at the time we signed our contract was same since copper prices had come down quite a bit)and in fact he has the same in his house. I am weary of the plastic in hot water application but was told the pex pipes are made in Canada by Pex Inc. and CSA approved and is used for both cold/hot water residential piping. They look just like yours. Any thoughts?
How about insulation? Wanted foam spray insulation for entire basement but 2lb foam will add $4K to already escalating costs - noticed you went with the std pink stuff is this R12 or R20?
Julie
Hey Julie!
ReplyDeleteWe did 2 lb open cell insulation in the ceiling, and R20 in the walls. The 2 lb was an extra $500 over using Roxul.
We were never given a choice in pipes? I am not sure what I have! That's crazy! How are you supposed to know what's best? The rest of the house is copper (OLD COPPER) but they just did their thing in the new bathroom - no questions asked.
We replaced some copper with pex for the radiant heating (the rads). The copper was in the way of the new wall. This sucked because we had to pay $700 for the change to pex. This was NEW COPPER they tossed out(installed 2 years ago during the upstairs renovation).
Hey Shannon,thought I logon to see your basement progress.
ReplyDeleteI notice you're using plastic plumbing - how informed was this decision? I was pulling my hair out last week over plumbing - copper vs. plastic, pvc vs. cpvc, pex vs. superpex. Our plumber convinced us that plastic was the way to the future (price at the time we signed our contract was same since copper prices had come down quite a bit)and in fact he has the same in his house. I am weary of the plastic in hot water application but was told the pex pipes are made in Canada by Pex Inc. and CSA approved and is used for both cold/hot water residential piping. They look just like yours. Any thoughts?
How about insulation? Wanted foam spray insulation for entire basement but 2lb foam will add $4K to already escalating costs - noticed you went with the std pink stuff is this R12 or R20?
Julie