Hobbes86's "Guess the Amount of Pex Used Contest"...Contest

Hobbes86
Hobbes86 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

I recently replaced all the galvanized steel piping in my house with Pex B. I have an upstairs bathroom with a toilet, sink, and shower. A downstairs bathroom with a toilet and a sink. Then there's the kitchen sink, boiler, water heater, softener, outdoor spigot, basement spigot, and washing machine. My house is roughly 1,250 square feet.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to guess how much linear feet of pex was used overall, as well as guess the length of both red and blue pex used.

Sample: Overall length 1,003,658 ft, red 1,002,658 ft, blue 1,000 ft.

There will be three prizes. One for the closest overall length, one for the red, and one for the blue. Three chances to win! I don't care if you go over. Simply the closest guess wins. If two people are the same distance away, they will both get a prize.

Prizes will be cigars from the "quality smokes" bag from my pass, plus a few others I'll throw in.

I will leave guessing open for a week. Enjoy!

"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fun game, actually haven't a clue.
    Overall length 1920 ft. , red 658 ft , blue 900 ft.

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,675 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Fun game, actually haven't a clue.
    Overall length 1920 ft. , red 658 ft , blue 900 ft.

    For starters Edward, the sum of the Red and Blue should equal the overall. ;)

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,675 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Overall length - 264'
    Red - 97'
    Blue - 167'

    Thanks for the contest.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TRayB said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Fun game, actually haven't a clue.
    Overall length 1920 ft. , red 658 ft , blue 900 ft.

    For starters Edward, the sum of the Red and Blue should equal the overall. ;)

    I figured leftover footage and mis-measurement but maybe he's not counting that, dunno.

  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    I figured leftover footage and mis-measurement but maybe he's not counting that, dunno.

    I'm sorry Edward, I didn't think to specify. I am counting only the pex in use. Not off-cuts or mismeasurements.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ok. Overall length 1558 ft.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,983 ✭✭✭✭✭

    111ft Red
    222ft Blue
    333ft total
    TY for the contest!

  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Vision said:
    111ft Red
    222ft Blue
    333ft total
    TY for the contest!

    Some nice, easy math there. I like it!

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • Jrflickster
    Jrflickster Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    300 red
    420 blue
    720 overall
    Thanks for the contest

  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭✭✭

    130 red
    170 blue
    300 total

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting contest. I'll make a guess.

    200 red
    300 blue
    500 total.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Overall length 1,003,658 ft, red 1,002,658 ft, blue 1,000 ft

    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭✭✭

    160 red
    215 blue
    350 total

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives

    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

    80 red
    140 blue
    220 total

    A little dirt never hurt
  • 11thGenSoutherner
    11thGenSoutherner Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭✭✭

    150 blue
    120 red
    200 total
    I hope you had no leaks.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    110 red
    220 blue
    330 total

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

    350 red
    350 blue
    700 total

  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @First_Warrior said:
    150 blue
    120 red
    200 total
    I hope you had no leaks.

    Thank you, Rodger. No leaks, and we are enjoying the efficiency of the new system.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,119 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rodger that.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2024

    And don’t call me Shirley.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
    MOW badge received.
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Timmy... Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,675 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So, we have clearance, Clarence?

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭✭✭

    247’ lf cold (blue)
    192’ lf hot (red)

    439’ lf

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bump

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did you measure between the fittings or what's also inside the fittings?

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the contest Ian!

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.