Installing Pex For Baseboard Heat

Pex tends to get all snakey and wants to come out of the baseboard enclosure when it gets hot.

Installing pex for baseboard heat. You could get 1 6 gpm through 1 2 pex but that is about twice what i would design for and would have about 3 4 times the pressure drop. We use pex al pex if we want to enclose the return in the baseboard cover less expansion. And don t forget to use oxy barrier pex or you have to keep everything in the system non ferrous.

Yes you can use it to connect baseboard. Make sure your water temps won t exceed this rating. It should bottom out on the shoulder of the fitting.

But we have used regular pex. July 19 2011 05 10 53 pm i did our whole house with aquapex including the radiant floors with it too. Measure out the length of pex you need for installation and cut it with the pex tubing cutter.

The straps should be plastic or metal that is designed to work for plastic pipe. From under the sink you. To play with some numbers say your heat loss is 16 mbh 20 btuh per sf as a place to start.

When cutting pex it is imperative that it is a straight burr free cut. Ok i am conservative but you own the pex already and i do have my reasons. Slide the copper crimp ring up so that it is 1.

I ve been using the same diameter drill bit for the pex but because the pex wants to bend at crazy angles it rubs against the hole in the floor. Run the pex tubing. When you have the pex cut to length slip a copper crimp ring onto the pipe.