Re: Not always joking, it seems

On 20-Feb-2008, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> That's another advantage of older houses -- they were built with
> copper pipe.  New ones around here are all built with PVC pipe.

Wife and I were looking at houses recently.  As usual my wife was looking
in
the kitchen and bedrooms and I was peeking in the attic and garage when I
saw this:

http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/Plumbing/plumbing-manifolds

They're using flexible cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) water lines that
run
to a distribution manifold.  Nothing was buried in the slab.  If you got a
leak you should be able to attach the new piping to the old, yank it
through
the walls and reconnect.

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