willshak wrote:
Pete C. wrote the following:
Home Guy wrote:

Just curious if anyone listens to Glen Haege ("Hagy") radio
broadcast (it's either Saturday or Sunday morning) on AM radio. I
don't know if it's syndicated across the country, or just broadcast
on Detroit's WJR. I was just looking at his website, wondering how to
ask him a
question about what he knows about painting a roof white to lower
attic heat and reduce cooling expense, but I really can't find any
way to ask a question via his website.

I found a page that lists "Most recent Ask Glenn topics", but the
last one seems to be Dec 28/2010 (nothing for 2011).

It's somewhat troubling to see that this last question was this:

"I have galvanized water pipes in my home and want to replace
them. Can you recommend a company that would install PEX
water lines? I am assuming that they would be less costly
to install than copper."

And his answer was this:

"Installing PEX is a really good decision. "

I can find no other reference to PEX on his website. I would think
that the PEX lawsuit would be mentioned somewhere.


Where is this mysterious "PEX lawsuit"? The only lawsuit I'm aware
of is against one particular brand and type of fittings commonly
used with PEX tubing, nothing against the PEX tubing or the many
other brands and types of fittings available. Your exaggeration is
rather like claiming a "car lawsuit" in reference to one bad part on
one brand of car.
There's at least two companies involved in the lawsuit.
Zurn, and Uponor.
Pex has been used in the US for 20 years, 40 years in Europe.
There's nothing wrong with the tubing, just some brass fittings by the
above companies.
Apparently those fittings contained zinc in the brass before being
cast. The zinc was the problem.

If it's brass, it contains zinc. The zinc wasn't the problem so much as the
amount of zinc.