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hr Member Posts: 6,106
in THE MAIN WALL
to pex? I know sheetrock mud doesn't. And any latex overspray easily peels off. The only product I have seen stick is those spray foam products. The ones you can never clean off your hands :)

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  • Dave_22
    Dave_22 Member Posts: 232


    Anyone ever paint PEX where it stubs up to connect to panel rads? PEX is orange and stands out-would like to paint 3" of it where it comes through the floor.
  • jeff_51
    jeff_51 Member Posts: 545
    gosh, whats wrong with orange????

    as long as it is latex, I don't think you would have a problem. Heaven knows how often I have seen pex lines oversprayed by the painters who come in and spray primer all over everything.
  • jwade55_3
    jwade55_3 Member Posts: 166
    I have had several people use these.

    Several projects with panels, and pex. used these stubbed out of the floor.

    J
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Why not..

    aluminum sticky tape. You know, the shiny stuff?

    We prefer to make an adaption to copper prior to coming up to the radiator. It makes the risers "vacuum cleaner proof". But then again, we normally run PAP between our mains and the applainces...

    ME
  • Tundra
    Tundra Member Posts: 93


    They make a plastic shower curtain rod cover that is split. You just snap this over a nasty looking rod. You could use this product to hide/protect your pex by cutting it to the appropriate length.
  • Paul Pollets
    Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,663
    Pipe sleeves

    Buderus and Dianorm have 8" sleeves available in white that are pre-split to cover any type of piping to the rads. Typically the radiators are mounted 4" above the floor and the cover sleeves cut in 2 pcs.

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  • ALH_4
    ALH_4 Member Posts: 1,790
    Sleeves

    Vanguard makes a product that sleeves the pex tubing with a white vinyl tube that you cut to length. There is also a product called "Rad Snaps" that is a white plastic cover similar to a shower curtain rod cover that is made for radiator stubs. We get those from Stelrad.

    -Andrew
  • Plumdog_2
    Plumdog_2 Member Posts: 873
    Why is it

    that painters carefully mask everything EXCEPT pipes and plumbing? I've tried various methods of masking stubs and such myself to save time on final install; but finally gave up. I even tried to backcharge the GC for time wasted cleaning paint but that didn't fly. So now I just factor in paint scraping fee and bury it. Doesn't improve bottom line much.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Try this...........

    We use copper on what few BBR jobs we do for the jumper between the risers. We carry a roll of polyethylene packaging materials that comes on a contionuous roll. We cover the whole copper pipe with it, and let'er rip. Upon finish, you lift up the platic, cut the pipe to the proper heighth and take the pipe AND plastic out to the dumpster and strip the plastic off of the pipe into the dumpster, on your way back to the truck to put the tubing back in stock for the next job.

    I think my guys actually made up some really cool dispenser for it to. Strip cut and GO!

    Heres a link to one.

    http://www.uline.com/Class_01.asp?desc=Bags+Poly+Plastic

    Enjoy Recycling!

    ME
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