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SharkBite plumbing fittings
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A guy at Home Depot showed me this stuff. I have to move the water valves in my bathroom (remodel). I have not sweated copper in ages and I just know there will be at least one leak involving a re-do and a whole lot of bad words. Anyway, the sharkbite stuff looks like a compression fitting of sorts with out any tools involved. No wrench to tighten or anything. just cut the copper to length, and pop the fitting on. If you make a mistake, ther is a tool to release the fitting and do it over. a 1/2" elbow is about $5.50 but it seems for a small job it might be worth saving the time and frustration of sweating if one is not proficient at it. Has anyone dealt with this stuff? Thanks
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Yep - used them when I replaced my gas water heater a couple of months ago (maybe 6?) and had to slightly relocate the plumbing. Just hacked off the copper and pushed em on. No leaks (yet)....and ridiculously simple.
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I was freelancing yesterday for an old employer. They moved to a larger industrial setting and used that stuff to plumb the cooler lines for all the printing presses. It looks very clean even when installed visibly and they didn't have to worry about anything dripping on the equipment.
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There was a recent thread over on MrLandlord about them. Quite a few people seemed to like them. Never used them myself.
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Yes.
I used them to runa 60' section of water line for another garden hose location on the other side of my house.
I tapped into an existing copper line near an existing spigot under the house with a sharkbite T-fitting, and ran 60' of cpvc line from there. I have had it for two years and I check it periodically for leaks, and I have never seen a drop of a leak. I have had professional plumbers warn against using these in other forums because of the o-ring seals inside, but this was due to pure speculation on their part. Oh, I almost forgot, I also used them on my washer hook up to install new shut off valves in my laundry room. I don't know if I would use them for interior wall plumbing just in case, but they sure are so, so easy to install and are very forgiving compared to sweating copper pipes. You can do ten times the plumbing with these compared to sweating pipes, and what I really love is the fact that you can connect copper to cpvc using one fitting that takes seconds to install. make sure you get the little quick disconnect tool in case you goof up with the measurements. |
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Yeah, we use 'em at the cabinet/remodel place I work. Fantastic buggers.
Pro plumbers don't like 'em because now you can do what they can do, but without all the technique involved in soldering.
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