Revisiting initial thoughts.
To PEX or not to PEX. Before we were even moved in to this place on ocasion I stood down stairs and staired at the plumbing nightmare which brought water to the kitchen and bathrooms.
My original thoughts were to remove the entire mess and start over. This most of the time is easier said than done. (And now we use the water every day.) I was toying with the idea of re-plumbing the mess with a tap water system developed by Wirsbo. Such a system would allow me to eliminate the entanglement of 1/2 inch copper pipes.
I decided to researche some more on the net. I never really made up my mind after this. I found there are lots of people out there unsure wether this "new" (see Wikipedia entry PEX) technology will stand up to use, and others who love it.
Well now that our 2nd floor bathroom is set to be roughed in this next week my mind is made up. The plumber I chose to do the rough-in uses the Wirsbo system that I looked into earlier (we also looked at copper for the rough-in) and that is what we will install. For the interm the 2nd floor bath will be the only on PEX. The rest will happen when we redo the kitchen.
I'm sure to post more on this topic later.