Water Lines In Attic

While this will may make you work a little more to properly insulate the water lines it will save you tons of money upfront.

Water lines in attic.

No interior walls to use either. Use foam insulation that comes in sleeves and fits around the pipe. First off these days water lines going through attic are standard practice especially if you have a slab concrete foundation. 30 year or more home built on a slab and water lines are being damaged and lines are breaking.

Because there are. The water main and water heater ared at one end and the master bath at the other. I recently repaired a pipe at the back wall of my home where as l had to dig under the slab and it was reachable. Although the flexibility of pex pipe makes it somewhat resistant to freeze fractures it is still required to be insulated in an attic.

Pex water pipe without insulation in an attic that is also next to an access hatch opening and unprotected. I now have a water leak that could be further under the slab and not reachable. All lines are coming from under the slab in each part of the home where water is needed. Existing ranch has very low ceilings 7 8 so dropping any ceilings will not work.

For a variety of reasons from pipe damage under a slab to home design constraints water pipes may need to be run or rerouted through a home s attic. Water line would run over the top of the 2x4 bottom truss cord and i would create a tent over pipe so there was no. Because water always flows downward freezing attic pipes that rupture are especially damaging to the living spaces below. Need to get a hot water line from one end of the house to the other in a ranch with a concrete slab.

The photo at the top of the page is an example of what not to do. I have a very long house 90 from one end to the other. Otherwise a cold water line run a long distance through a hot attic can take several minutes to deliver cold water to a fixture. Insulating the hot water pipes leading out of your water heater for example can reduce heat loss and lower the costs of heating the water.

During a recent remodel we changed our water lines from inside the slab to run through the attic in southern california no chance of freezing condensation not an issue. Running pex in an attic. My plan is to run pex thru the attic below the insulation.