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  1. J

    Frozen lines and PEX

    I’ve just been thinking over what you said originally, which was exactly right, a flaw in my original idea, and something I hadn’t considered. But I’ve also come to the same concluuusion...add a drain valve, and blow out the line. Or, it maybe I can reroute, lift or lower, one or the other ends...
  2. J

    Frozen lines and PEX

    Thanks for your reply. My PEX manifold is mounted on the wall almost head high. I put a ball valve about a foot beyond on every line. To get to the kitchen, the two hot and cold lines go down the wall to about floor level, and six feet horizontally through a space I can’t get into. They come out...
  3. J

    Frozen lines and PEX

    I installed PEX plumbing a couple years ago. On a recent night temperatures dropped to -08 and the kitchen lines froze. The PEX manifold is in a heated laundry room, from which the kitchen sink lines go under an uninsulated and inaccessible room's floor, about a 6 foot run. It’s supposed to get...
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