I have a mobile home that was built in 1985 it has PB plumbing installed. The bathroom remodel requires moving the plumbing system to interior walls instead of coming throuth the floor. I used the Sharkbite and PEXtubing to replumb the bathroom. No leks and relativly easy tof a DYIer. My handyman claims they will leak over time especially if they are horizontal. They are approved to be installed inwall cavities so I am failr confident they will hold up. Does anybody have experience with these fixtures over a period of time?
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I don't recall any complaints here. With PB, though, I think there are some special precautions you needed to take. Presumably you actually read the instructions?
DanH wrote:
I don't recall any complaints here. With PB, though, I think there are some special precautions you needed to take. Presumably you actually read the instructions?
Dan, I think he's replacing the PB with PEX.
I've used Shark Bite and their generic brethen for several years now with no problems. Last year I repaired a hose hydrant connection with a failed PB feed line and had to search out the proper SB connector to use with PB and found it at Home Depot.
The usual SB connections are for copper, PEX and CPVC.
Just make sure you clean up the end of your pipe and insert it fully into the fitting and you should be good to go.
Bob.
dont know how they hold up over time but again have never seen a whole system plumbed with those things...i would not get my hope us to high that you will be leak free for long. there is a reason plumbers dont use these to plumb a system.
The reason that plumber don't use them for everything is that they're too expensive. But plumbers do use a very similar crimp connector that is about as fast and quite a bit cheaper.
i cant speak for my plumber but i know him well enough to know that if i paid for the additional expense of sharkbites vs propex sleeves, everlok fittings or any other system like these he would still not plumb a house with them.
agree
I'd never bury a sharkbite in a wall. But if I didn't have any PEX tools and needed to make an emergency repair, I'd use them for a repair.
No problems...
I've only used a few over the years, but I've never had a problem with Sharkbite, nor have I heard of any problems.
Cutting the pipe end square is step one. Cleaning up any nibs at the cut is step two. Burying the PEX fully into the fitting is step three.
Comon sense is to protect it from freezing.
Other than that? Not much else to write.
You will not have any problems with Sharkbite fittings. The technology has been around for decades.
Most jurisdictions will not allow you to use these fittings, that is only because things take forever to change.
No need to worry, unless of course you like to worry, then worry all you want.