supergirl
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I do all the plumbing for our projects. He does all the electrical.
There is a space I just cannot get to due to physical limitations: the crawl space.
We have needed a few small plumbing alterations there and we really cannot use a torch, trust me, I would if I could. (Insulation limited space, just a mess).
He is happy to use a shark bite and has found you tube videos saying they are just perfect and equivalent to any other way to connect water lines. I cringe.
I have imploded him to at least rent a crimper, we even have a friend with some version of one- not sure of the brand, but a good one.
He is hell bent on keeping the sharkbites in place.
Some are copper to copper, some are copper to pex. There are also shark bite valves to close off certain runs, like to the outdoor spigots (that don’t take well to our process in -20°F, and the washing machine that is not used in winter) It’s a second home and we winterize it a few times when we come and go in the winter, and we turn off the well pimp when we leave in warm weather, but the house is not occupied full time. This also worries me although with the water off a little less.
If properly installed, can I sleep at night, or am I right that they make great shorter term solutions till a better job can be done?
My vote is crimp copper fittings… if sweating is not an option for longer term.
There is a space I just cannot get to due to physical limitations: the crawl space.
We have needed a few small plumbing alterations there and we really cannot use a torch, trust me, I would if I could. (Insulation limited space, just a mess).
He is happy to use a shark bite and has found you tube videos saying they are just perfect and equivalent to any other way to connect water lines. I cringe.
I have imploded him to at least rent a crimper, we even have a friend with some version of one- not sure of the brand, but a good one.
He is hell bent on keeping the sharkbites in place.
Some are copper to copper, some are copper to pex. There are also shark bite valves to close off certain runs, like to the outdoor spigots (that don’t take well to our process in -20°F, and the washing machine that is not used in winter) It’s a second home and we winterize it a few times when we come and go in the winter, and we turn off the well pimp when we leave in warm weather, but the house is not occupied full time. This also worries me although with the water off a little less.
If properly installed, can I sleep at night, or am I right that they make great shorter term solutions till a better job can be done?
My vote is crimp copper fittings… if sweating is not an option for longer term.