Pwjone1
Engineer
I am getting set to do a toilet fill valve replacement (parts ordered, etc., it's an old Kohler), and I am probably going to replace the supply line, same time, in for a dime, in for a dollar as it were. The old supply line is conventional enough. Looks like this:
T style chrome platted copper, compression fitting to the shut-off valve. The old one looks decent enough, and it was plumbed in nicely, maybe about a 3-4" run to the toilet, slight bend, nothing too bad to match.
But a trip to the plumbing supply kind of showed me that there are tons of alternatives out there, and I was told that for a toilet, it might be better to use a stainless flexible, something like this:
Something to do with the flex allows for a bit of movement, people getting on and off the toilet, wouldn't break or open up or anything. Supposedly Consumers Reports had suggested this direction, but I could not find anything like that on their web site, so was unable to confirm. On this web site, I did find links saying essentially don't use the Watts Floodsafe variant, too-bad, sounded like a nice approach, but I will stay away from that. Similarly, some of the plastic parts don't look all that solid to me, call me old-school. I won't say that cost-is-no-object, but I want to do this right, better to do it right once than wrong multiple times.
So my question comes down to basically, what are people using these days, and what do they think works the best in general?
T style chrome platted copper, compression fitting to the shut-off valve. The old one looks decent enough, and it was plumbed in nicely, maybe about a 3-4" run to the toilet, slight bend, nothing too bad to match.
But a trip to the plumbing supply kind of showed me that there are tons of alternatives out there, and I was told that for a toilet, it might be better to use a stainless flexible, something like this:
Something to do with the flex allows for a bit of movement, people getting on and off the toilet, wouldn't break or open up or anything. Supposedly Consumers Reports had suggested this direction, but I could not find anything like that on their web site, so was unable to confirm. On this web site, I did find links saying essentially don't use the Watts Floodsafe variant, too-bad, sounded like a nice approach, but I will stay away from that. Similarly, some of the plastic parts don't look all that solid to me, call me old-school. I won't say that cost-is-no-object, but I want to do this right, better to do it right once than wrong multiple times.
So my question comes down to basically, what are people using these days, and what do they think works the best in general?
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