02/02/2022
MANIFOLDS
Yesterday we fabricated up some manifolds for the house we are working on. Uponor drops/outlets and copper manifold inlet. When building a manifold you have a few options.
-Size, size up from the inlet to the manifold to the branches or loop it, thus will allow equal pressure on each outlet
-Material Choice, ya you can use pex, uponor, copper or press but I choose copper most times…. Why? Because of the service aspect. If 10 years go by and you have a bad valve on a pressed manifold that whole things is trash but if you sweat it then it’s not serviceable. No matter what valves you use they all seize eventually.
-Valves, lots of different manufactures and lots of different ways to create your manifold based on your valve choice. This time around I’m using copper X cold expansion ball valves which I’ve never used before but usually I do ball valve with a copper X cold expansion adaptor but this way is less joints and a cleaner look IMO
-Mounting, you can mount it a bunch of ways but my go to ceiling plates, rod and split hangers (coated or cushion if you can find em)
That’s all I got today so far for y’all.
I’ll post a finished picture when it’s done. We got a big year setup so far looking forward to sharing it. 🤘