{"id":237,"date":"2012-10-23T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:53:17","slug":"pex-1st-results-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"PEX: 3rd Floor Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_233\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/90psiTest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"size-large wp-image-233\" title=\"90psiTest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/90psiTest-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/90psiTest-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/90psiTest-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/90psiTest.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">90psi and holding&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We got a whole floor done, just the two of us, this past weekend. \u00a0We learned a whole lot along the way too. \u00a0Little things like exactly where to drill the holes in the joists, how to alternate the hoses so they don&#8217;t cross over, how to work keep the spool from binding up&#8230;. and a few others. \u00a0It was a good education in handling PEX.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" style=\"width: 943px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BathroomCeiling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"BathroomCeiling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BathroomCeiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BathroomCeiling.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BathroomCeiling-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PEX has a mind of its own.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had to learn a new lesson every joist. \u00a0The widths\u00a0varying\u00a0between 12&#8243; and 24&#8243; had us changing strategies every few feet. \u00a0The first circuit, we drilled holes on top of each other at the end of the joists. \u00a0This was not the best way. \u00a0On the 2nd circuit, we drilled them as high up as we dared next to each other. \u00a0This allowed us to alternate inside and outside hoses so we would not have any cross overs. \u00a0This resulted in a flatter layout with more parallel hoses which allowed us to use more heat transfer plates. (We got 400 plates and have 14 gaps for 3 floors (42 gaps) so&#8230;. 9.5 plates \/ gap).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_228\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MorePEXceilings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228\" title=\"MorePEXceilings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MorePEXceilings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MorePEXceilings.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MorePEXceilings-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#8217;ll find a board to fill that last spot. I swear!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve still got two floors to go. \u00a0By the time we get to the basement we should be pretty good at this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a whole floor done, just the two of us, this past weekend. \u00a0We learned a whole lot along &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=237\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home_improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}