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George

wrote:

It's weird that PEX has been used for so many years and yet hardly no
one even heard of it until about 2 years ago. It's like hose because
that is basically what it is. Hoses are flexible, pipes are solid. I
can not call PEX a pipe, it's not. It's a hose. Like I said, it's
more rigid and appears stronger than a garden hose, but it's still not
pipe. If I had to re-plumb my house right now with copper prices
high, I'd still use the copper or if I absolutely could not afford it,
I'd go back to galvanized steel pipe.

I installed it for the radiant heating system in my house over 10 years ago.

It is actually called tubing and not hose. That coil of soft copper
tubing going to the ice maker on your fridge isn't a hose either.