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1979 house. Only this much piping visible. Could it be anything else? No 2110 visible, just Imperial PT and CTS for Copper Tube Size.
Regardless, plumber went out to check it out and said it wasn't. |
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Looks like pex to me
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How so?
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polybutylene is normaly grey, That looks blue to me . but i could be wrong
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Wayne,
All the poybutylene main's I've seen have been blue. Commonly referred to as "Big Blue". However, in this case, the whole Imperial PT name on the piping is throwing me for a loop. I'm wondering now if the PT might stand for Pex Tubing. All my googling has turned up nothing. |
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That looks like the polybutylene service pipe from the street and many of those were blue. That is not PEX, its PB.
http://www.polybutylene.com/poly.html B.A. King Home Inspections, LLC www.BAKingHomeInspections.com Serving Charlotte NC area and Rock Hill SC areas. CMI Certified Master Inspector and Independent License NC2449 and SC1597 704 301-3207 "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937 |
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Looks like Polyethylene tubing to me from here. Nonetheless the local plumber has rendered his opinion so you are good. |
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Yep, it could be PE here is a poor picture of some blue pipe
http://www.polypipe.com/polypipe/con...categoryID=269 B.A. King Home Inspections, LLC www.BAKingHomeInspections.com Serving Charlotte NC area and Rock Hill SC areas. CMI Certified Master Inspector and Independent License NC2449 and SC1597 704 301-3207 "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937 |
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I stand corrected i was thinking polybutylene not Polyethylene
I thought he was asking was it PB I forgot about PE but that is usually black down here |
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Most polybutylene water supply lines in our area are blue. However, the coupling is unusual, I always see a gray plastic coupling.
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