what is the difference between tourmaline ceramic and ceramic? which is better?
YES,USE TYPE L BUT IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCED AT SWEATING PIPE YOU SHOULD START WITH PROPANE AS MAPP GAS HEAT IS HARDER TO CONTROL
Use PEX and the new Shark fittings - the stuff is pretty amazing and will allow you do do some pretty fancy work in a very short time, far faster than with sweat-copper. The cost will be competitive as you can fish PEX right up through walls and around corners on a fish-wire as you would electric cables - so labor is greatly reduced. There is a company called Houseneeds (linked below) that will help you through the entire process, talk you through things over the phone (sometimes even at odd hours) and generally be very helpful - as well as sell you stuff at pretty good prices. Despite what some might think this is NOT rocket science. It just requires care, attention-to-detail and some basic practice. Were you to wish to go back in copper, or even with solvent-weld PVC/CPVC fittings, I would stop you and suggest you call a pro. But with the new PEX system and appropriate fittings things have gotten much easier both to understand and to do. NOTE: 1,300 feet rancher - about one very long day's work for two reasonably adept individuals to plumb the entirety including a water heater, washer, dishwasher, 2 baths, outside hose bib and so forth - *THAT* is the beauty of PEX plumbing. And that would include a central manifold with individual, valved hot and cold feeds to each location. Lose the manifold and do series plumbing - a short day for two, long day for one.
Type L is for water M is for heat (m is thinner and not code approved for domestic water. same fittings get a mapp gas torch from home depot or wherever thats what i use.
Ceramic produces enough ions to be only slightly damaging, while ceramic-tourmaline (where both are combined) produces up to 6x more negative ions: resulting in virtually NO damage, if used correctly. So the combination is better
