Steveirvine
New Member
Hello,
I'm hoping for help here, I gotta get this done in the next day or two! A bit of background, we had a remodel done about 5 years back. I wasn't happy with some of the work that my plumber's GC did and in retrospect I should have been more forceful to do this right.
We discovered a small leak on Fri on the back of our shower. I opened up the drywall and it looks like the 90 elbow joint to the left was leaking. Please see the attached pic. My regular plumber (not the GC's guy!) can't take a look at it Tue. So, I called up two plumbers recommended by friends.
One of them took a look at it and says I have to redo every joint in the whole remodel because he says those are cheap Home Depot clamps and the way the GC plumber crimped them was wrong. He says the clamps the were recalled by back in 2012 around the time of my remodel. He uses Uponor fittings and he said he has to research if Uponor fittings would work with this type of PEX (seems like he would already know this wouldn't he?) He also said he has to redrill the hole and put in a sleeve(?) and that the foam eats through the PEX. The thing that made me nervous about this guy was that his license had expired 5 months ago and he first claimed it didn't and then said he just renewed it. He is bonded however.
The 2nd guy is an old school guy who's been doing this for 30 years. He also uses Uponor and said the Uponor expansion crimp (? might have this term wrong) will work with this type of PEX unlike the other guy. Is PEX pretty much the same? I also had him look at the couple of other exposed fittings and he said they weren't terrible and he wouldn't necessarily rip it out. He said he had very few of them leak and thinks this might be a bad fitting. He's fully licensed/bonded and has been continuously for 30+ years.
Is it just a matter of one guy being way too conservative and one guy being much more practical? Thanks so much for help!
I'm hoping for help here, I gotta get this done in the next day or two! A bit of background, we had a remodel done about 5 years back. I wasn't happy with some of the work that my plumber's GC did and in retrospect I should have been more forceful to do this right.
We discovered a small leak on Fri on the back of our shower. I opened up the drywall and it looks like the 90 elbow joint to the left was leaking. Please see the attached pic. My regular plumber (not the GC's guy!) can't take a look at it Tue. So, I called up two plumbers recommended by friends.
One of them took a look at it and says I have to redo every joint in the whole remodel because he says those are cheap Home Depot clamps and the way the GC plumber crimped them was wrong. He says the clamps the were recalled by back in 2012 around the time of my remodel. He uses Uponor fittings and he said he has to research if Uponor fittings would work with this type of PEX (seems like he would already know this wouldn't he?) He also said he has to redrill the hole and put in a sleeve(?) and that the foam eats through the PEX. The thing that made me nervous about this guy was that his license had expired 5 months ago and he first claimed it didn't and then said he just renewed it. He is bonded however.
The 2nd guy is an old school guy who's been doing this for 30 years. He also uses Uponor and said the Uponor expansion crimp (? might have this term wrong) will work with this type of PEX unlike the other guy. Is PEX pretty much the same? I also had him look at the couple of other exposed fittings and he said they weren't terrible and he wouldn't necessarily rip it out. He said he had very few of them leak and thinks this might be a bad fitting. He's fully licensed/bonded and has been continuously for 30+ years.
Is it just a matter of one guy being way too conservative and one guy being much more practical? Thanks so much for help!