Tuff PEX

kevin coppinger_4

look at radiant job that was a mees today...besides the piping which does not make sence it had Uponor Tuff pex in the floor and ceiling.(strange that it did not say Wirsbo) It said it could be used for potable water but felt like it had no oxygen barrierWhich is the question....any better way to tell?....the job is 6 years old and around here (NH) Wirsbo was the norm from supply houses...makes me wonder if it was a homeowner/mail order job..the only info on google had it used to plumb motor homes!!!!....kpc

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Weezbo

my memory is real different lately...

buh a few years ago (which i recently discovered might mean 10->13 years ago)a buddy of mine had some cream covered pex pipe he said it was from uponor and as i wasnt installing it i looked at it saw it had a cream colour skin on it and thought 'yuh Right:)'' Ummm HuHum Sure:)'

maybe it was !

Tim Doran

Tuff Pex

Is a product for the manufactured home industry. It is pex-A without a barrier.

Tim D.

George_10

If this system is cleaned and treated

with our products, you may be able to keep the corrosion to a minimum even though it does not have an oxygen barrier tubing. Our treatment product not only inhibits corrosion, but has an oxygen scavenger in it.

Check us out at www.rhomarwater.com

Or give me a call at 800-543-5975

George Hunt

kevin coppinger_4

George....

are you saying that I won't need to seperate the tubing from the boiler by way of a HX if I use your products in the system? kpc

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Jerry_15

It has always been a wonderment to me that there is still some kind of debate about barrier/non barrier pex. This was going on when they were still selling trainloads of polybutylene. I'm glad that there are treatments for older non-barrier pex, but I would never consider using it for, well, anything; and it blows my mind that anyone would bother to make it, sell it, buy it, or put it in their house, for potable or non-potable water. Why in the world you would want to skimp on price on the one part of the job that is literally, written in stone? From a purely practical standpoint, how many different rolls of stuff do you want hanging around the shop? Sorry for the harange, but will this never end?

kevin coppinger_4

Jerry...

This job was done by a homeowner that new little or nothing about radiant heat let alone barrier non barrier tubing....he must have just found whatever cheap and through it in...they use it in mobile homes......kpc

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[Deleted User]

Certainly...

Kevin, that is one of thre approved methods for corrosion control.

CONTINUOUS chemical treatment, or

Isolation heat exchanger, or

all non ferrous components.

The problem with chemicals is that they forget to get done, and the next thing you know, things go bad... in a HURRY.

Not for me...

ME

Jerry_15

That figgers, but I still think they should just stop making non-barrier pex.

Jerry_15

How exactly would one continuously inject chemicals into a closed-loop system without raising the pressure, and dumping liquid (we can't call it water anymore). Please enlighten me.