MTcummins
In the Trades
I would typically agree that this is simply old vs new school school arguments. I am generally new school, however, and I hate these things.
I think that in 10-20 years these things will have been proven (a failure) and removed from the market, possibly banned in the code.
Lots of people thought Polybutylene was a good idea 30 years ago... it had lots of seemingly good qualities. Ooops, billions of dollars later... I hear duct tape has lots of good applications in drain pipes...
But who knows, maybe they'll turn out ok. Regardless, I'll stick with good ole copper sweat and proper pex fittings (I do all new work in pex, hence the new school thing). If you want to risk it, go for it. Just remember the joy of the 80s and 90s where millions of homes had tto rip out the new easy plumbing at huge cost, if they were lucky enough to not have terrible failures first. Is that definitely going to happen? Of course not. Is it possible, I think so, and there are plenty of others out there who are pretty wary about these things. And they're not all old school plumbers, though probably a good portion of them are
I think that in 10-20 years these things will have been proven (a failure) and removed from the market, possibly banned in the code.
Lots of people thought Polybutylene was a good idea 30 years ago... it had lots of seemingly good qualities. Ooops, billions of dollars later... I hear duct tape has lots of good applications in drain pipes...
But who knows, maybe they'll turn out ok. Regardless, I'll stick with good ole copper sweat and proper pex fittings (I do all new work in pex, hence the new school thing). If you want to risk it, go for it. Just remember the joy of the 80s and 90s where millions of homes had tto rip out the new easy plumbing at huge cost, if they were lucky enough to not have terrible failures first. Is that definitely going to happen? Of course not. Is it possible, I think so, and there are plenty of others out there who are pretty wary about these things. And they're not all old school plumbers, though probably a good portion of them are