Question for "Blow Out the Water Line" gurus
I have always used the pink stuff, but am thinking of coming over to the dark side. (DW asks "why"?) My question: There is pex tubing from the water pump to the first junction going up to a faucet/...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
I generally avoid these threads because it is a lot like Ford/Chevy/Ram debates.. But your comments do need a rebuttal.
I live in North West PA, not far from the "Snow Belt" in PA (for those who don't have a clue the snow belt is referring to I80)..
All good points in your post.
We live on a farm on well water and have 5 or 6 faucets around the property which have 1" poly pipe poking up out of the ground about 2' with a plastic Philmac coupling and ordinary metal faucet. In the 10 years or so since it's been installed with sustained temps. down to as low as around 10-15F (and fully exposed to our almost non-stop winter winds), never once has a pipe, fitting or faucet been damaged from freezing despite the lines being fully charged.
We've even had about a 50' run of PEX (along with brass fittings and crimp rings) in an unheated portion of our attached garage for maybe 8 years, also fully charged with water all winter, and that has never been damaged from freezing either.
I was told by a water works engineer once that it's the dissolved air in water that results in damage to piping systems. I did some googling once though and could not find anything to substantiate that. I would think our well water has a low amount of dissolved air or maybe none, and perhaps that is why we don't have a freezing problem.
