Recent content by not_plumber

The pipe was swollen. I cut it out using a cutter tool. Put a sharkbite 1/2 pushon that is connecting copper pipe at one end where it was not swollen to 1/2 pex tube that is 20 feet to where I made the next copper pipe cut where it was not swollen. Except that this cut did not make as clean of a...

I get these black particles fragments because I have old copper pipes that have gotten this fragmentation happening inside them. When I stick my finger inside my old copper pipe ends and twist around I pull my finger out with these hard black fragments. Do you have old copper pipes anywhere it...

There's a 30 foot run of 1/2" copper hot water pipe that was cut where a compression fitting was installed. I replaced this hot water fitting 3 times with a new one of the same type that was on there that had gotten old and rubber seals dryrotted away which means it was leaking badly. The new...