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Dec 14, 2022 · Poly B pipe will fail and the fact you have had a leak already means your pipe is a ticking time bomb at this point. It may suck but $3,000-$6,000 (cost for poly b replacement …

Jul 12, 2023 · Another question to ask is if your main waterline is made of Poly B as well. I was in a home recently where their water pressure was 10 PSI, which is a far cry from their neighbors …

Jul 8, 2023 · My experience is the larger companies provide a wider range of service levels where sometimes you get great work and other times maybe not so much. We have a service …

Oct 31, 2022 · Pex A is a lot better to work with, more flexible, than pex B. You can crimp pex A as well but expansion like wirsbo and uponor have bigger diameters for their fittings. Whether …

Feb 5, 2023 · Any increased cost in materials (I just priced out a rough in for a 3 piece bathroom and Pex B came in slightly cheaper) would be offset by the decreased labor costs. Anyone …

Jul 27, 2023 · Ironically the maintenance guy in my building (50 year old building) was bitching about how management won’t “fix the plumbing but decides painting the exterior is what needs …

When we remodeled our master bathroom I had trouble making connections with available PEX piping to existing Poly B, still unaware that Poly B had been discontinued. Eventually by about …

Dec 2, 2023 · I am planning on re-plumbing my house with PEX tubing, the house is a 3 bedroom/2 bath cape. I was originally planning to use PEX A since I read that PEX B is more …

I had poly b. It's really thin. It does the trick until it doesn't. When you look at modern PEX it's significantly thicker. I was lucky enough that I could re plumb the trailer because I had access …