I live in Vancouver, Canada and am planning a reno which will include a plumbing rebuild. Having done a fair amount of reading I had decided on PEX (way easier to run lines, like the home run approach, heard about many copper pin hole issues here). So off to the Home Depot I go to price stuff (nicely priced too compared to copper). I then head to Rona for comparison and get thrown a curve ball cause all they carry here is IPEX.
Seems the IPEX is a PEX-Al-PEX composite which in theory sounds like it gets rid of the expansion problems that PEX has but do other issues get introduced?
I know a little about joining different metals together (ie: CU and AL) and a red flag is raised in my head...will I have corrosion issues at the fittings? Do you need to ground the stuff?
Ive looked on IPEXAqua's web site and they dont mention anything about it, but there seemed to be a posting about problems with the stuff in Las Vegas a few years back.
Which of the two is proven? To keep those who want to suggest Copper at bay, Its not really an option because there will be a bunch of joist pulling and weaving around obstacles. (No need to complicate the issue).