Claudia, I am far from an expert on them, but I love mine that I have. If you
want you can ask me stuff about them and I'll try to answer your questions.
Other than that you may try the apple store and go to their question and answer
section. My email isbo...@ptdprolog.net
I used pex pipe and shark fittings. The pipe is flexible and the fittings just
slide on. The fittings will work on Pesx, PVC, or copper pipes and the great
part is no cleaner, glue, solder and easy to slide off with a pair of pliers or
a tool that cost less than a buck. The pipe and fittings
RJ,
Thanks. So to make sure I understand this here is my current and proposed
situation.
I have an old faucet mounded on the bottom row of siding on the outside of
my house. It is threaded on to a standard fitting that was soldered to
standard half inch copper pipe. Fortunately, there is a shut
I just changed my outside water faucets a few months back. Their made of
some kind of plastic now and they just glue in place onto Pex pipe. The job
took about 5 minutes. We have PVC pipe to the outside faucets. I used a
hacksaw to cut off the old brass ones, cleaned up the end of the pipe
Alan,
Thanks for your thoughts. I have copper running throughout including to
outside.Hoping there are other options other than gluing faucet to Pex as
that part will be in the wall and not easy to fix if a leak occurs.
Al
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Yeah, we had the hole house re piped 2 or 3 years back. The old PCV pipes
were starting to burst and crack. As I understood it, the company who
manufactured the pipe went out of business about 20 years ago or so said the
plumber who did the job for us. Of course we changed everything over to
does copper piping have a diffferent taste to the water then plastic pipes
do? I find for myself that if you have a house with an older version of taps
that the water doesn't taste as good compared to the new taps that are being
installed in housing today. I know though that the plastic pipes
PVC and copper last for several years. It is a huge price different that has
one using plastic. But there are water conditions that may play a part in the
pipe one uses Plus the ease one can install plastic over copper if one is using
sweat joints..
RJ
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From:
If you use shark fitting, you don't have to worry about sweating joints. Or one
could always use the compressed fittings.
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From: Alan Paganelli
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Outside
What I did, was to put a galvanized nipple in the wall and used the pex pipe to
the outlet to the nipple. Just don't like any thing except metal in the walls.
They claim the pex pipe is every bit as good as copper, but haven't use it long
enough to say if it is or isn't.
RJ
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our copper is developing pinholes. Had to have the 4th stretch replaced
now.
1957 home.
We have flex line to the toilets and my dog has stopped trying to drink
from there.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Blaine Deutscher wrote:
does copper piping have a diffferent taste to the water then plastic
If I am understanding you right. What I would do is cut the copper a head of
the shut off in the basement. Get a shark bit coupling or even a compression
fitting and hook my pex pipe to the copper inside the house and run the outside
connection to where I would want it. I would use a short
You must have a lot of chemicals in your water. Time to change over to the P V
C or Peg pipes.
smile
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From: Spiro
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Outside water faucet
our copper
It's not PVC any longer, it's some other kind of plastic not subject to the
problems of PVC and not welding as with copper.The new plastic piping is
suppose to be stronger and last longer as well as cheaper. The plumbing
contractor told me they offer the copper because to many people won't
http://www.plumbingnetworks.com/info/pex-copper/
There are different fitting that can be used on pex pipe.
xof PEX Piping and Copper Piping
If you are like the rest of us non-plumbers, then there is a good chance
that you don't know which plumbing pipe is better. You may not even know
what a
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