Re: [BlindHandyMan] Bathroom Shut-off valves

[Scott Howell]

Well I have to agree and first how can anyone say there is a  
difference. If you think about it, most valves under a sink (at least  
in my experience) have been of the compression type. WHen I lived in  
my townhouse, I had to replace a number of valves. I could not really  
cut these back because there would have been nearly no pipe to put a  
new valve on. So, I just simply kept the nut on the backside and just  
slapped a new valve on. I have never had one leak that was not  
directly do to me not tightening it up enough. I guess it just seems  
tricky to heat a pipe enough to loosen the solder, that seems tricky.