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A pex question

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NFPA 31 standards do not list ANY plastic for ANY part of an oil tank installation. This includes Vent, Fill, connections, valves or delivery lines.

As they say in the business, you can do whatever you want. NFPA31 has been written for everyones safety.

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  • Al Corelli_2
    Al Corelli_2 Member Posts: 395
    Using pex as a temporary oil line.

    I have a job where we need to install new oil lines to the outside buried tank. We are very busy and have no time to do it now, but plan to do it in a few weeks.

    The problem is, the tank is in front of the house, and we are concerned that temporary copper will get stolen if temporarily installed in the stick port.

    Do any of the intelligencia here think Wirsbo hepex will stand #2 fuel oil for a few weeks?

    The customer is very nice, and the job is near my house, so any emergency can be averted. There are two oil filters and a Tiger Loop on the oil line. Buderus/Rielo if anyone cares to know.

    Am I the guinea pig on this one? Or will somebody fess up? :)

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  • brucewo1b
    brucewo1b Member Posts: 638
    Why not

    use the wirsbo as a slevee to keep prying eyes away or that plastic outdoor conduit that way you can't see in at all
  • ed wallace
    ed wallace Member Posts: 1,613
    pex for oil line

    if it was me i would use pex as a sleeve and just get it done i like the pex from home depot rated for domestic water as a sleeve
  • ed wallace
    ed wallace Member Posts: 1,613
    pex

    steve all we are saying is to use pex to protect the buried copper oil lines from thieves and damage i dont see where that conflicts with the nfpa codes i have used pex as a sleeve for oil lines without a problem
  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    Sleeve is OK


    Pex as an oil line is not, even temporary.

    My vote is for copper disguised as pex.

    All in favor...........buy a brick!

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  • Uni R_2
    Uni R_2 Member Posts: 589
    Heat and hot...

    If you don't want that copper becoming a "hot" commodity perhaps you could isolate that tubing then heat it up to the tune of a very live 230V. ;-)
  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    And


    Pics are a MUST if that option is taken.

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  • Uni R_2
    Uni R_2 Member Posts: 589
    Caveat

    And if anyone gets hurt, explain that it was only because you were so enviromentally conscious that you had a monitoring system built onto that precious fuel line in case of environmental terrorists like the poor fellow right there. It's too bad your monitors require such high voltages to be reliable, but exactly what kind of price can you put on protecting mother earth? (all said without smiling of course)
  • Al Corelli
    Al Corelli Member Posts: 454
    In times of haste...

    Thanks for the eye opener. Sometimes, in the quest for comfortand ease of scheduling, we think too far outside "the box".

    Glad I checked in. Good reality check. A pex sleeve it shall be. And now I ask myself, how short-sighted I could have been to even think that.

    How do you guys know me this well? The first thought I had was to electrify the copper. But there would have been no pictures, witnesses or bodies. I'm from the Bronx, you know... :)
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