PEX Universe Learning Center
Radiant Heating
- Types of PEX tubing (a, b, c). Choosing the right brand for your project.
- How to install PEX tubing in concrete slabs.
- Types of PEX tubing installations.
- PEX tubing spacing, technical specs, pressure drop and general installation practices.
- PEX pipe sizes, circuit lengths and floor output.
- How to calculate heat load for a radiant heating system (a 5-step tutorial).
- How to repair leaks in PEX tubing?
- Providing proper support for long runs of PEX tubing?
- How do I know if PEX tubing is allowed by code in my area?
- Replacing galvanized pipes with PEX tubing.
- Radiant heating tubing design and layout.
- Using PEX tubing in a snow melting system.
- PEX tubing: myths and facts
- Outdoor Wooden Furnaces with insulated PEX tubing
- Is PEX tubing recyclable?
- How safe Is PEX tubing?
- Use of anti-freeze in PEX tubing
- PEX tubing installation accessories
Radiant Heat Manifolds:
- How to shop for a radiant heat manifold.
- Main components of radiant heating manifolds.
- PEX manifolds for plumbing and radiant heating
PEX Heat Transfer Plates:
Hydronic Radiant Heating Systems:
- Designing an efficient radiant floor heating system
- How to hire a radiant floor heating contractor
- Radiant heating system explained: heaters and circulators
- Radiant heating system explained: injection mixing
- Radiant heating explained: methods of heat transfer
- Radiant heating explained: history and benefits
- Using solar thermal in radiant heating systems
- Using geothermal heat pump for a floor radiant heating system
- Zone valves in a radiant heating system
- The role of floor covering in a radiant heating system
Electric Radiant Heating Systems:
- What is electric radiant floor heating?
- How you can take the dream of warm floors and make it a reality
- How to install electric radiant heating system
- Designing an efficient electric radiant floor heating system
- The role of floor covering in a electric radiant floor heating system
- How to hire a electric radiant floor heating contractor
Radiant Heat Insulation:
PEX Plumbing
PEX Tubing for Plumbing applications:
- PEX tubing types - oxygen barrier vs. non-barrier
- How to install PEX tubing. Making a crimp connection. Using PEX tools.
- PEX pipe vs. copper pipe - which is better?
- Insulating PEX pipe for plumbing applications
- How to prevent water from freezing inside the PEX pipes?
- Re-plumbing: Replacing brass pipes with PEX tubing
- PEX plumbing pipe vs. copper pipe
- PEX tubing in a multipurpose NFPA 13D fire sprinkler system
- Introduction to radiant cooling
PEX Tools:
PEX Fittings:
PEX Manifolds:
- How to properly read a PEX plumbing manifold.
- Getting the right PEX plumbing manifold for your project
- PEX manifolds for plumbing and radiant heating
Pumps and Pump Equipment
Sewage pumps:
Booster Pumps:
Plumbing and Heating
Heat Exchangers:
- Brazed plate heat exchanger sizing.
- Brazed plate heat exchanger quote request.
- How heat exchangers work.
- How to size a brazed plate heat exchanger.
- How to size a water to air heat exchanger.
Grease Interceptors:
Air Elimination:
Expansion Tanks
- Installing the Extrol 30 expansion Tank
- Installing the Fill-Trol 109 expansion Tank
- Installing the RX 15 Radiant Extrol expansion tank
- Fixing an expansion tank with excess water
- Where can an expansion tank be installed?
Taco Circulator Pumps:
Takagi Tankless Water Heaters:
- Selecting the right venting parts for your Takagi water heater.
- Which Takagi model is right for me?
- How tankless water heaters work?
- 2009-2010 Water Heaters Tax Credit information and list of eligible models?
Copper Pipe Fittings:
Valves:
Thermostats:
