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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
PEX Plumbing?
Hi -I don't post here often but was wondering if anyone has info on the safety of PEX tubing/plumbing? We have a home project coming up and DH really wants to use PEX but I am not totally comfortable with using it since it is a plastic. We don't use plastic for any food/drink storage so it seems silly to me to use plastic plumbing for our water. He's found some articles saying that it's safe and does not leach, but I can't imagine that over time it wouldn't degrade and start leaching....
Does anyone have info on this that you could share?
Thanks!
Re: PEX Plumbing?
DH recently replumbed our whole home with it. I had the exact same concerns... until I saw that super nasty metal pipes that he removed. Those definitely weren't healthy either. Plus, it was truly soooo easy to work with.
Unfortunately I just dropped my investigation, so I don't have any actual research to share. I'm skeptical of any plastic and it's rare in our house, but there are certain times we use and this was one of them.
A compromise could be to use metal for the hot water only. Cold water is much less likely to cause the plastic to leech. That may be more of a headache than it's worth.