hmmm, that's interesting.  You're right, that is cheap.  I was quoted
somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 for the Kitec manifold.  Do you have
valves at the faucets?  If not then the manifold system at that price would
have a great advantage, the quarter-turn valves from Kitec were about $15
apiece IIRC.

Regards,
Bob

On 9/19/06, Aaron <aaron.piclist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Bob J. wrote:
>
> >
> >The manifolds themselves are very expensive, and really don't offer much
> of
> >an advantage in labor because you end up running more tubing from them to
> >each faucet.  I ran one 1" trunk line for both hot and cold water down
> the
> >center of my house, and tee'd into that to go to the bathrooms and
> kitchen.
> >I also placed a small water heater near the bathrooms in the crawl space
> so
> >that we wouldn't have to wait long for hot water.  Nearly instantaneous
> hot
> >water.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Bob
> >
> >
>
> Bob,
>
> Very expensive?
>
> I did some remodeling last year and nearly have the entire house
> converted from galvanized to plastic pex.  I installed a Manabloc.  At
> $125, I thought it was cheap.  Yes, we used more pipe, but most
> everything is 3/8" and we get hot water pretty fast even in the far
> corners of the house.  There is much less cold water to empty out of
> that 3/8" line than in a 1" trunk line.  :)  I also like having the
> ability to individually shut off each fixture.  One can even use the red
> and blue pipe for hot/cold respectively, but the roll lengths didn't
> work out well for me as there would have been too much left over.  I
> ended up using all white.
>
> http://www.bright.net/~agarb/manabloc.jpg
>
> Only disadvantage I've noticed is that if I turn a faucet on/off very
> quickly the water hammer will cause some pipes to bang against the floor
> joists.  I need to get down in the crawl space and secure them better.
>
> Aaron
>
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> 61.55
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