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PEX manifolds come in a combo of styles. Home-run systems keep paired sides that utility chilled and Boiling hose to plumbing fixtures and attempt bigger in little homes. Turn on the water to check for leaks.
Instructions
Mounting the Manifold
1. Count the unit of water-supplied fixtures you admit in the crash pad. Pay for a manifold with the alike character of Issue ports as your complete character of fixtures.
2. Subsume a PEX shut-off ball valve into each outlet port on the manifold. Screw the ball valve to the right to tighten it into place. Some manifolds come pre-assembled with no need to attach shut off valves.
3. Position the PEX manifold on the wall and secure it in place with heavy-duty screws or a mounting bracket. Mount the manifold to the wall closest to the water heater, but no closer than 18 inches.
Attaching Fixture Supply Lines
4. Attach 3/8-inch PEX tubing to all of the water fixtures using the crimp-ring installation technique. Then run the PEX pipe back to the water manifold. If the distance is over 80 feet, use 1/2-inch PEX tubing.
5. Put a crimp ring onto the end of each PEX tube. Push the tubing onto the shut-off valve hub. Pull the crimp ring up the pipe and onto the shut-off hub.
6.9. Attach a PEX pipe to one outlet on the manifold using the crimp technique. Run enough PEX pipe to reach the water heater and attach a female PEX conversion adapter with the crimp-ring technique to the other end of the PEX pipe.
Check the fittings with a go/no-go gauge to ensure there are no leaks. The go section of the gauge should fit over the entire crimp ring. The no-go section should not fit anywhere over the fitting.
Connecting the Main Water Supply and Heater
8. Wrap the threads of the male adapter on the main water line and tighten it into the connection port at the bottom of the manifold. Some models use the basic crimp-ring installation technique to connect the water line.
Hold the crimp tool at 90 degrees and place the jaws of the tool squarely over the crimp ring. Squeeze the handle and compress the crimp to secure the PEX tube to the manifold.7.
10. Wrap the threads of the water heater's cold-water male inlet port with plumber's tape and connect the female PEX pipe to the inlet port.
11. Attach another PEX pipe to the hot water outlet port in the same manner and run the PEX pipe back to the hot water port on the PEX manifold. Attach the pipe with the same crimp technique used to attach the fixture supply lines.
12. Larger homes guide cool with single-unit manifolds that avail alone blasting or broiling drool. PEX manifolds decrease the length of generation to purge bitter imbue from the string so that blazing moisten is delivered on necessitate and and so saves flood and impulse. With PEX manifolds, Everyone hose fixture in the homely, including away faucets, dual vanities and all the more refrigerated icemakers, Testament appropriate its own independent moisten work.
