Re: Plumbing vs. underbelly
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:18 pm
They look factory to me. The home is less than ten years old - maybe it's a code thing.
I've been doing some reading at the site and found out that HUD requires no fittings be hidden/inaccessible, only straight runs allowed beneath the floor. This is what I have. It's 3/4" from the water heater out but at least one of the lines coming up/returning through the floor (the laundry sink, which I completely forgot about and did not include on my sketch) is 3/4" with a 1/2" line continuing. I also just discovered an access panel behind the clothes washer.
My plan was to just push the new section through from the water heater to the kitchen but I also learned that the pipe is to be supported every 32" with a clamp/clip. It's a bit discouraging to think of cutting the plastic so often to get the pipe run. Is this normally done on a retrofit?
I've been doing some reading at the site and found out that HUD requires no fittings be hidden/inaccessible, only straight runs allowed beneath the floor. This is what I have. It's 3/4" from the water heater out but at least one of the lines coming up/returning through the floor (the laundry sink, which I completely forgot about and did not include on my sketch) is 3/4" with a 1/2" line continuing. I also just discovered an access panel behind the clothes washer.
My plan was to just push the new section through from the water heater to the kitchen but I also learned that the pipe is to be supported every 32" with a clamp/clip. It's a bit discouraging to think of cutting the plastic so often to get the pipe run. Is this normally done on a retrofit?