Milesmoony
New Member
Hi, this is my first post here. I just finished replacing all of my plumbing and it all came out great, no leaks (2 sinks, 1 shower). I used pex piping with quick connect fittings and on demand hot water. I ran a hot a cold line with tee’s going to each fixture and I used the sharkbite faucet kit for both sinks. Where I had to get creative was with the shower. I used a 2 knob shower valve with a riser to the shower head. This meant three npsm threads poking through the shower wall. Since I have a sliding door going behind the shower wall I had very little clearance for fittings. I needed four nps female swivel to npt male elbow fittings to hook everything up in the tight space. The only fitting I could find was a hydraulic fitting, I’ll include the link. I hooked up the pex pipe to a sharkbite quick connect nptf fitting, threaded it with pipe dope onto the nptm end of the elbow and then swivelled the other end to the shower valve. It’s been a couple months with no leaks but I’m concerned there might be some reason I shouldn’t have used a hydraulic fitting. What little info I could find said don’t do it. My question is - why not? I am concerned about the longevity of the fitting and the health risks since I do not know the material of the fitting. Here is the one I used:
https://www.apache-inc.com/CMS/apac...t&documentId=2825868DF6879B6686257F4900620445
Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated!
https://www.apache-inc.com/CMS/apac...t&documentId=2825868DF6879B6686257F4900620445
Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated!