Have any of you folks had experience such as noted, or other solutions.
I have a question about PEX. My son is beginning and he installed a cold water line, in replacement of copper, in the utility room, which also contains the gas fired appliances, heat pump, H/W heater & the close dryer. This new cold water run has developed condensation, which is interesting, because the copper line the PEX replaced, didn't.
A PEX A, and a copper line, were replaced with PEX B, (against my advice), and there is now, condensation.
In the process of searching for answers, I found this link; Why Pipes Sweat: Causes and Solutions for Sweating Plumbing which discusses the issue.
Additionally, in conversations with two PEX dist., they suggested that the PEX needed to acclimate to the water being conducted, and that could take several hours.
Having spent my, "formative years", in the trades, in SO CA, I had only experienced, acclimation, with refrigerant systems.
I had apparently, straightened, a learning curve.
I have a question about PEX. My son is beginning and he installed a cold water line, in replacement of copper, in the utility room, which also contains the gas fired appliances, heat pump, H/W heater & the close dryer. This new cold water run has developed condensation, which is interesting, because the copper line the PEX replaced, didn't.
A PEX A, and a copper line, were replaced with PEX B, (against my advice), and there is now, condensation.
In the process of searching for answers, I found this link; Why Pipes Sweat: Causes and Solutions for Sweating Plumbing which discusses the issue.
Additionally, in conversations with two PEX dist., they suggested that the PEX needed to acclimate to the water being conducted, and that could take several hours.
Having spent my, "formative years", in the trades, in SO CA, I had only experienced, acclimation, with refrigerant systems.
I had apparently, straightened, a learning curve.