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Water lines in attic or slab.
30 year or more home built on a slab and water lines are being damaged and lines are breaking.
In other cases water pipes may be rerouted to walls and ceilings and then insulated if necessary.
A burst or leaking plumbing line no matter its location carries the potential to cause extensive damage to your home and furnishings.
Water line would run over the top of the 2x4 bottom truss cord and i would create a tent over pipe so there was no.
Existing ranch has very low ceilings 7 8 so dropping any ceilings will not work.
No interior walls to use either.
I now have a water leak that could be further under the slab and not reachable.
Placing water pipes in outside walls greatly increases the risk of frozen and burst pipes in cold climates.
The main sewer line runs beneath the future slab on a gravity flow system.
What type of piping to use plumbers often use pex piping to reroute pipes.
My plan is to run pex thru the attic below the insulation.
If it s a rural home the main sewer line runs to a septic tank.
The makes the price affordable and allows for minimum tear down during the plumbing repair.
While a leaking pipe located underneath a slab or positioned along an exterior wall can cause significant damage over the long run damage from a leaking ceiling pipe will come much sooner.
While this will may make you work a little more to properly insulate the water lines it will save you tons of money upfront.
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First off these days water lines going through attic are standard practice especially if you have a slab concrete foundation.
The pipe gradually descends until it ties into the public sewer main that may run behind the houses in an easement or beneath the street in front of the house.
Hot water pipes are often rerouted to the attic though there are some parts of the country where this may not be up to code.
All lines are coming from under the slab in each part of the home where water is needed.
For a variety of reasons from pipe damage under a slab to home design constraints water pipes may need to be run or rerouted through a home s attic.