I have to replumb my entire house and I've been researching fittings and tools for hours! If I had seen this video first it would have saved me a ton of time. Thank you for giving me a visual. Now I'm a lot more comfortable with my decision to go with the stainless rings.
I'm from the old school. Copper piping and soldering all joints. A skill and art in itself. I haven't had a need to do any home DIY plumbing jobs on the new pex style plumbing.until I moved into our new home. Realized in short order that I didn't know how to deal with this new product. I've been watching many UA-cam videos but until I saw your demos I couldnt get my old brain around it. Thank you for a great video.
Good luck but using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html
My respect to you for working with copper. I know it takes a lot of skill to get things soldered properly and not melt other things or set things on fire. I know I wouldn't be comfortable with sweating copper (but I'm not a plumber), but I can glue PVC and CPVC (obviously not together since that wouldn't make a secure solvent weld). I imagine getting copper to bend without kinking also requires skill.
@Gwen G Personally I’d prefer to replumb my house with copper but between the hard water and chloroamine treatment in my area, copper actually pits and has pinhole leaks within a few decades. Some of the builders have even sued the water utility for damages. So I’ll probably use pex or schedule 80 pvc.
Great video. I teach some basic construction skills to kids in high school and videos like this are a great way to introduce a topic. Had a lot of good information in a short time which is essential to keeping teenagers attention. Thanks
This is my first lesson on how to use Pex. It actually looks like fun and much easier than galvanized and copper. I just need a plumbing problem to arise now so that I can apply what I learned from your video. Thanks for the intro.
FYI-Using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html Good luck.
Hire my cousin. You'll have all the plumbing (and other general construction problems) that you need. I'm trying to get a shirt printed for him that says: "Measure once, cut twice ... or more."
@@DanSarahMakers Hi. Good video and quite helpful. I was wondering if I could use the food grade silicone, or the clear pvc tubing shown here. luckyzone.aliexpress.com/store/all-wholesale-products/4384085.html?spm=2114.12010612.pcShopHead_10081700.1 and could I replace the crimps and clamps with the standard hose clamps that you put on with a screwdriver? This is in an old trailer that I'm working on, and I don't want to invest a lot in the project. Thank you!
@@DanSarahMakersOh, and what size would I need if I want half inch or three quarter, do you know what the compatibility numbers are? That would be a great help to me if you know. Thanks so much!
Excellent video with respect to your fitting presentation and post commentary on the different fittings and your professional experience with straight vs coiled pex.
Nicely done video. Good intro into PEX and the crimping styles for attaching fittings. I have a 2016 RV and the fittings are plastic and I need to repair the fittings to the sink and shower. I'll go with the copper fittings with the crimp clamps due to tight spaces. This was a good 101 video for sure. Many thanks!
Thanks for a very informative video and yes this old dog learned new tricks from your video . I'm a housing professional and have seen many system and was always confused from the array of systems but you made it easy to understand today again great job.
So much info about defunct plumbing materials and connections. Would rather just look at a few, but only good recommended types, and mainly PEX, why I’m looking at all. I’ve been soldering copper since the early 1980’s. Just got a torch, flux, emery paper, fittings, pipe and a cutter. It’s easy and the water systems I’ve done all still work perfectly...except a couple that have frozen and one that was scraped by ‘dozers. SS crimp looks like the best choice for PEX: versatile, cheap, lasts as well as any, easy to use, only one tool needed for most size pipes and fittings, and only needs access from the front.
Awesome Brother I'm replacing my tub n shower diverter that was leaking, so I'm putting a new system in. Thanks this gives me more confidence with this you saved me 1k, appreciate you keep it coming.
The biggest take away for me was the straight vs coiled PEX tubing preference. I never thought about that and how it would effect working with it. Thank You.
For someone without the hand strength to repeatedly crimp fittings, the expandable PEX-A would be the way to go. Milwaukee and DeWalt both have battery powered expanders. Works good in tight spaces as well. Cheers!
The cheapest Milwaukee expansion tool for Pro-PEX sells in Canada for $ 530.00 with tax after adding a battery & charger. A little expensive for a DIY homeowner.
Great video! It's exactly what I was looking for. I've done a healthy amount of construction/remodeling work, but Pex is new to me. Trying to replace my kitchen sink faucet and didn't have the slightest clue how to do it. I figured out that I need tools, but research showed me all different kinds and I had no clue which one would work best. I'm still undecided but at least I have a basis to start from now.
Keep it simple. The Kitchen Sink Faucets likely fasten to the hot and cold water valves under the sink and all you'll need is a couple of wrenches (and a BASIN wrench - to get loosen the nuts holding the faucet to teh sink, etc.) Try Googling "Replace Kitchen Faucet - This Old House " on UA-cam as I know they have done this several times. You will not need any PEX or fittings as discussed in this video.
It does not have a plastic taste in the water as some people might say it does as would be most likely the plumbers who bad mouth it the most on account it's easy to install & most anybody with little skills can accomplish it on a D.I.Y project. This makes it a threat to their job security. Plus it holds up to the freezing weather expanding & contracting without breaking & if so it freezes you just need to thaw it with a hairdryer. It's also just so easy to fix or add to with a simple cut, a clamp ring & crimp. No glue or soldering is required. & besides that you can easily snake it through the wall studs & around corners without splicing couplings or elbows in between every stud or rafter. It's the best of the best! However don't expose it or mount it in direct sunlight or have it exposed to ultraviolet rays & always allow plenty of expansion & contraction as if need be you can loop it in a wall cavity about every 8' or 10'.span. One man's loss is another man's gain. So use it & let it be your gain.& not your payment plan pain. I am a good man to have on hand, Dave the handyman! Home repair guy St. Louis, Mo.
Not due to threat since anyone can just as easily install PVC and its not bad mouthed. Nobody in our family calls plumbers unless codes are involved because not much to running most any plumbing you don't solder. Mouthing of pex came about after Polypropylene plastics were determined to be just deadly in microwaved food containers so its assumed by some that Pex is also somehow bad for us ever since then. I don't microwave my water lines, how about you? Its just peronoid people I swear, their needs to be door to door psychologist in our country because they'd make a damn killing today.
I don't know anything about piping, but I need to fix my moms mobile home. Would pex piping be ideal and do I have to take apart the floor boards to get to the pipes?
When using the copper ring to crimp on to hold it in place, it helps to use a channel locks to easily pinch over it 1st just enough so it wont slide & then use your crimper to finish it. Those special copper rings with the orange no slide.sleeve will only cost you more than the regular copper rings would be using this method of pinch & crimp.
"...use a channel locks to easily pinch over it ..." NOTE: this is NOT a procedure that is recommended or suggested by the mfg. It requires another tool (Channel Locks) that is likely to distort the ring and may compromise the fitting. If you find it difficult to place the ring properly using the standard tool(s), use the crimp rings designed to solve the problem by the folks who designed the system because, if you screw it up, it will cost you more to repair it than you would save on a pack of rings. Of course, if you're working on someone else's home or something you're going to flip, what the hell? Right?
We used Pex or something simular in '97 in Dads new house. I think we used a type of fitting that used a ferrel a threaded nut and a compression ring. Don't quote me now 21 years later, but it was fast way of doing it.
Bang up job. Thank you. I had my plumbing redone with pex a while back and now I have to replace my water heater. Wasn't sure if I needed something specific to my pipe.
I laughed when you said I've got a half inch shark bite removal tool but I can't find it. It would require me dumping by entire tool box to find mine. Great video!
Doing galvanized piping and it's tough . Gotta get it tightened just right or leaks . Third time trying on two unions ,three nipples and two tees section with three lines to put it just right . Had huge leak . Yeah is pex capable of supply to house ? Looks much simpler than what I'm trying ,.
PEX style piping or tubing as I have been corrected will supply a house no problem. There are adaptors for almost any type of piping out there so you can get a nice clean transition. As far as galvanized piping, I have over-tightened pipe into fittings in the past and actually had the weld on the fitting split apart! It's like the story of the three bears, not too loose, not too tight, just find the magical middle ground!
The tubing with aluminum sandwiched between two plastic layers is still used in all in floor heating applications where Ethelene glycol is the circulating fluid for heating.
Thank you so much! I'm working on a rental trailer and it has some PEX pipe in it and I was not familiar with any of the fittings (especially the Shark ones) and I didn't know how to release them or what fitting that I needed to use to add additional water lines to the existing PEX ... and now I feel (thanks you your video) that I can do the work myself!
Out of all the videos like this I never see the most common crimp system at least in my area. That is viega or heatlink. They have a stainless sleeve that’s really easy to crimp. Much easier than the copper rings in my opinion. They also go over the end so you dont have to worry about positioning. They have a little window to make sure the pipe is all the way up then you crimp it. I don’t use this system. I use uponor expansion. However they seem like the most common for plumbers. Viega makes the stuff for pex b and heatlink is a pex a version. Most of the examples shown are what’s sold at box stores. I’m not knocking what’s shown it just seems like they always get left out
Odd question for you. I recently visited a friend and she had either all flexible or pex tubing. In her bathroom and kitchen, she had NO water shut offs for the toilet or any sinks. They were all in a bedroom in an enclosed space. Do they not make the proper fittings for pex to have shut offs at the sink? I guess I am too old school, I have no problem with the plastic, but I DO want shut off valves under my sink. Thank you for a very well done video, I enjoyed learning something new.
I've tried both the copper crimp rings and the stainless steel clamp rings. When I used the copper crimp rings, the PEX pipe was securely fastened to the fitting so tightly that I could not rotate the fitting on the pipe, it was 'one piece'. But with the clamp ring, I could rotate the fitting with not all that much effort, the clamp ring did not do as good a job as the crimp ring. I could see a clamp connection leaking after a few years.
Excellent Video.. I have Questions on (1) How does those Plastic fittings will stand up to freezing Vs Metal fittings used in pex B pipping with crimping system? (2) Crimping with this fitting which reduces flow of water as they are not exactly 1/2 " or 3/4 inch when you slide inside pex B tubing, is there any inexpensive fittings which can donot do that at the same time will standup to freezing situation by not bursting ?
Why not use other expansion pex seems more sensible as has chemical memory wants to be original shape, is it because of tool price? What’s expander cost? I’ve seen pex only 1incb to 1/4 inch. Pity no clear or high volume, aware of.
Erik, thanks for the comment. As a matter of fact, I have a video that covers that exact question, you can find it on my PEX plumbing playlist titled Removing PEX Crimp Rings. Hope this helps you out!
What are those plastic sleeves you used before Sharkbite fitting called and who sells them? When I cut poly b piping it distorted and became a bit oval ...not good for sharkbite fitting. Thanks
THANKS SO MUCH for the Video!!! There was no PEX back in the 90's when I learned Plumbing.
I have to replumb my entire house and I've been researching fittings and tools for hours! If I had seen this video first it would have saved me a ton of time. Thank you for giving me a visual. Now I'm a lot more comfortable with my decision to go with the stainless rings.
stainless rings are the worst LOL good luck
Thank you. Very useful information without a lot of wasted time. And you seem like a very good person. I hope you know the Lord. Thanks again.
I’m getting into plumbing and I just wanted to say this video helped out alot. Thank you so much !
Nice job Dan&Sarah! This is great easy to understand introduction overview to the Pex system. Answers a lot of questions. Thank you my friends.
I'm from the old school. Copper piping and soldering all joints. A skill and art in itself. I haven't had a need to do any home DIY plumbing jobs on the new pex style plumbing.until I moved into our new home. Realized in short order that I didn't know how to deal with this new product. I've been watching many UA-cam videos but until I saw your demos I couldnt get my old brain around it. Thank you for a great video.
Good luck but using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html
My respect to you for working with copper. I know it takes a lot of skill to get things soldered properly and not melt other things or set things on fire. I know I wouldn't be comfortable with sweating copper (but I'm not a plumber), but I can glue PVC and CPVC (obviously not together since that wouldn't make a secure solvent weld). I imagine getting copper to bend without kinking also requires skill.
@Gwen G Personally I’d prefer to replumb my house with copper but between the hard water and chloroamine treatment in my area, copper actually pits and has pinhole leaks within a few decades. Some of the builders have even sued the water utility for damages. So I’ll probably use pex or schedule 80 pvc.
@@edbouhl3100 copper sucks. No plumbers prefer it. All new houses get PEX.
Very helpful video on fittings. Thank you!
Great video. I teach some basic construction skills to kids in high school and videos like this are a great way to introduce a topic. Had a lot of good information in a short time which is essential to keeping teenagers attention. Thanks
Great video very thorough and detailed 👍
This is my first lesson on how to use Pex. It actually looks like fun and much easier than galvanized and copper. I just need a plumbing problem to arise now so that I can apply what I learned from your video. Thanks for the intro.
FYI-Using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html Good luck.
Hire my cousin. You'll have all the plumbing (and other general construction problems) that you need. I'm trying to get a shirt printed for him that says: "Measure once, cut twice ... or more."
This is a God-send to guys like me. Potentially, it can well save a home owner thousands.
Thank You
Thank you very much! I am planning to do some more PEX videos in the near future!
@@DanSarahMakers Hi. Good video and quite helpful. I was wondering if I could use the food grade silicone, or the clear pvc tubing shown here. luckyzone.aliexpress.com/store/all-wholesale-products/4384085.html?spm=2114.12010612.pcShopHead_10081700.1 and could I replace the crimps and clamps with the standard hose clamps that you put on with a screwdriver? This is in an old trailer that I'm working on, and I don't want to invest a lot in the project. Thank you!
@@DanSarahMakersOh, and what size would I need if I want half inch or three quarter, do you know what the compatibility numbers are? That would be a great help to me if you know. Thanks so much!
Excellent video with respect to your fitting presentation and post commentary on the different fittings and your professional experience with straight vs coiled pex.
Very important information thanks a lot for your efforts.
Definitely earned a big thumbs up! Thanks for the great demo and insight!
Glad it was helpful!
Nicely done video. Good intro into PEX and the crimping styles for attaching fittings. I have a 2016 RV and the fittings are plastic and I need to repair the fittings to the sink and shower. I'll go with the copper fittings with the crimp clamps due to tight spaces. This was a good 101 video for sure. Many thanks!
Thanks for a very informative video and yes this old dog learned new tricks from your video . I'm a housing professional and have seen many system and was always confused from the array of systems but you made it easy to understand today again great job.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It helped!
(Gray = poly butylene or poly b) Great video!! I'm using this info on my DIY plumbing today!!! Thanks!!
Thank you for taking the time to explain those options. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Just started to research pex. Good vid...was quite helpful thanks.
Thanks bro. Very informative.
So much info about defunct plumbing materials and connections. Would rather just look at a few, but only good recommended types, and mainly PEX, why I’m looking at all. I’ve been soldering copper since the early 1980’s. Just got a torch, flux, emery paper, fittings, pipe and a cutter. It’s easy and the water systems I’ve done all still work perfectly...except a couple that have frozen and one that was scraped by ‘dozers.
SS crimp looks like the best choice for PEX: versatile, cheap, lasts as well as any, easy to use, only one tool needed for most size pipes and fittings, and only needs access from the front.
You mention the crimp rings are easier to remove, though other videos say the clamp rings are the easy ones to remove! Cheers thanks for the video.
Very educational. Thank you.
Very helpful and informative video. Thank you for taking your time to make and post!
Awesome Brother I'm replacing my tub n shower diverter that was leaking, so I'm putting a new system in. Thanks this gives me more confidence with this you saved me 1k, appreciate you keep it coming.
Great vid! Only thing I didn't get was how to remove the stainless steel rings!
Very nicely done thank you.
The biggest take away for me was the straight vs coiled PEX tubing preference. I never thought about that and how it would effect working with it. Thank You.
Thank you for making this video on plumbing. I look forward to more videos on this subject.
For someone without the hand strength to repeatedly crimp fittings, the expandable PEX-A would be the way to go. Milwaukee and DeWalt both have battery powered expanders. Works good in tight spaces as well. Cheers!
Ryobi also has powered crimpers for both crimp rings and pinch rings.
The cheapest Milwaukee expansion tool for Pro-PEX sells in Canada for $ 530.00 with tax after adding a battery & charger. A little expensive for a DIY homeowner.
Just what I was looking for - THANK YOU! 🙂👍
Good information. Thanks.
Great video! It's exactly what I was looking for. I've done a healthy amount of construction/remodeling work, but Pex is new to me. Trying to replace my kitchen sink faucet and didn't have the slightest clue how to do it. I figured out that I need tools, but research showed me all different kinds and I had no clue which one would work best. I'm still undecided but at least I have a basis to start from now.
Keep it simple. The Kitchen Sink Faucets likely fasten to the hot and cold water valves under the sink and all you'll need is a couple of wrenches (and a BASIN wrench - to get loosen the nuts holding the faucet to teh sink, etc.)
Try Googling "Replace Kitchen Faucet - This Old House " on UA-cam as I know they have done this several times. You will not need any PEX or fittings as discussed in this video.
Very educational video ! Thank you for your video sir ! 👍
Nice video!
Thanks for the video. I've never used PEX before and it was a really helpful overview.
Thanks G for you, info, and demo, also; It would be nice to see how pex and copper can be combined interchangeable.
I will see what I can do. I have been planning a video like that for a while now!
I was hoping you would go into the pros and cons of each type of pex fitting. Might be a good topic for a follow up video.
Awesome video Dan, thank you very much.
Great tip about getting straight lengths vs coiled unless you have long runs.
Thank you for sharing 👍👍
very good video ,it was very well explained Thank You
dude thank you you im dealing with a 23 year old rv thank you
Great informative video
It does not have a plastic taste in the water as some people might say it does as would be most likely the plumbers who bad mouth it the most on account it's easy to install & most anybody with little skills can accomplish it on a D.I.Y project. This makes it a threat to their job security. Plus it holds up to the freezing weather expanding & contracting without breaking & if so it freezes you just need to thaw it with a hairdryer. It's also just so easy to fix or add to with a simple cut, a clamp ring & crimp. No glue or soldering is required. & besides that you can easily snake it through the wall studs & around corners without splicing couplings or elbows in between every stud or rafter. It's the best of the best! However don't expose it or mount it in direct sunlight or have it exposed to ultraviolet rays & always allow plenty of expansion & contraction as if need be you can loop it in a wall cavity about every 8' or 10'.span. One man's loss is another man's gain. So use it & let it be your gain.& not your payment plan pain. I am a good man to have on hand, Dave the handyman! Home repair guy St. Louis, Mo.
Not due to threat since anyone can just as easily install PVC and its not bad mouthed. Nobody in our family calls plumbers unless codes are involved because not much to running most any plumbing you don't solder. Mouthing of pex came about after Polypropylene plastics were determined to be just deadly in microwaved food containers so its assumed by some that Pex is also somehow bad for us ever since then. I don't microwave my water lines, how about you?
Its just peronoid people I swear, their needs to be door to door psychologist in our country because they'd make a damn killing today.
@@harryballz6358 Look, Smarty Pants, maybe you don't nuke your pex but some of us are pretty bored stuck in our house these days...
I don't know anything about piping, but I need to fix my moms mobile home. Would pex piping be ideal and do I have to take apart the floor boards to get to the pipes?
When using the copper ring to crimp on to hold it in place, it helps to use a channel locks to easily pinch over it 1st just enough so it wont slide & then use your crimper to finish it. Those special copper rings with the orange no slide.sleeve will only cost you more than the regular copper rings would be using this method of pinch & crimp.
This is why I read comments: I have so much to learn.
"...use a channel locks to easily pinch over it ..."
NOTE: this is NOT a procedure that is recommended or suggested by the mfg. It requires another tool (Channel Locks) that is likely to distort the ring and may compromise the fitting. If you find it difficult to place the ring properly using the standard tool(s), use the crimp rings designed to solve the problem by the folks who designed the system because, if you screw it up, it will cost you more to repair it than you would save on a pack of rings.
Of course, if you're working on someone else's home or something you're going to flip, what the hell? Right?
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@@ruanisheeple lol
@@dreamingrightnow1174 sorry that happened in my pocket 😅
If I have black pipe coming into my house and I want to go to ball valve and then pex after that. What fittings would be best ?
We used Pex or something simular in '97 in Dads new house. I think we used a type of fitting that used a ferrel a threaded nut and a compression ring. Don't quote me now 21 years later, but it was fast way of doing it.
Excellent video. You covered the bases exceptionally well. Thanks
i will do a dry run because you sure made me want to try it!!
great video thanks for explaining everything I did not understand till now👍
which one better in ur opinion
1. pure pex pipe with all plastic or
2. Rifeng multi layer pex pipe which has alumunium inside plastic
Bang up job. Thank you. I had my plumbing redone with pex a while back and now I have to replace my water heater. Wasn't sure if I needed something specific to my pipe.
Pretty koo video dude, summed up all the questions I had thanks again. 🤙
I laughed when you said I've got a half inch shark bite removal tool but I can't find it. It would require me dumping by entire tool box to find mine. Great video!
Doing galvanized piping and it's tough . Gotta get it tightened just right or leaks . Third time trying on two unions ,three nipples and two tees section with three lines to put it just right . Had huge leak . Yeah is pex capable of supply to house ? Looks much simpler than what I'm trying ,.
PEX style piping or tubing as I have been corrected will supply a house no problem. There are adaptors for almost any type of piping out there so you can get a nice clean transition. As far as galvanized piping, I have over-tightened pipe into fittings in the past and actually had the weld on the fitting split apart! It's like the story of the three bears, not too loose, not too tight, just find the magical middle ground!
Really informative video! Thank you! 👍🇨🇦
What Crimping Tool can I use for SS sliding press sleeves??
The tubing with aluminum sandwiched between two plastic layers is still used in all in floor heating applications where Ethelene glycol is the circulating fluid for heating.
Thank you so much! I'm working on a rental trailer and it has some PEX pipe in it and I was not familiar with any of the fittings (especially the Shark ones) and I didn't know how to release them or what fitting that I needed to use to add additional water lines to the existing PEX ... and now I feel (thanks you your video) that I can do the work myself!
Out of all the videos like this I never see the most common crimp system at least in my area. That is viega or heatlink. They have a stainless sleeve that’s really easy to crimp. Much easier than the copper rings in my opinion. They also go over the end so you dont have to worry about positioning. They have a little window to make sure the pipe is all the way up then you crimp it. I don’t use this system. I use uponor expansion. However they seem like the most common for plumbers. Viega makes the stuff for pex b and heatlink is a pex a version. Most of the examples shown are what’s sold at box stores. I’m not knocking what’s shown it just seems like they always get left out
07:15 the pex that has to be expanded is called Uponor AquaPex
What connector won't cause corrosion to galvanize pipe ? Can you help me out?
The gray was called Quest tubing polybutylene , I think they had more problems with the fittings than the pipe.
false pipe was bad
Hi... Would you say using a curved 90 is better for end pressure, as opposed to a fitting 90?... Thanks...
Very excellent video bro. Learned so much. Thank you. Looking forward to your upcoming video on "Building a bar in Key West".
Good Video!
Is the plastic Feral that goes inside the pex pipe for sharkbite absolutely necessary?
Lots of knowledge here thanks
We have the old steel pipes.How do i crimp to it?
You could tie into your existing steel pipes by using either a threaded male or female adaptor and running Pex from there.
can i use adjustable steel ring clamp with flat screwdriver tip clamps crimping like car radiator hose?
Great video. Could u make a video showing how u would instal the pex tuning to an under counter sink to the shut off.
Great video - very informative....thanks so much! I can tell you know your stuff!
Awesome video. Thanks!
thank you so much for sharing this video, it is really a big, big help
Do you know if any fittings to go from cpvc to Plex saltwater inviroment fish farm.
Very Informative and detailed. Great hands on demo too. Thank you!
Great video!
Odd question for you. I recently visited a friend and she had either all flexible or pex tubing. In her bathroom and kitchen, she had NO water shut offs for the toilet or any sinks. They were all in a bedroom in an enclosed space. Do they not make the proper fittings for pex to have shut offs at the sink? I guess I am too old school, I have no problem with the plastic, but I DO want shut off valves under my sink. Thank you for a very well done video, I enjoyed learning something new.
Of course. You can buy and install as many shut off valves for your pex plumbing job as you desire.
what is the best crimp to use that will not leak?
Make sure you test each connection with the go-nogo connection tester for a proper ring to pex seal.
Jack, what is this you speak of?
Educate me/us please.
I've tried both the copper crimp rings and the stainless steel clamp rings. When I used the copper crimp rings, the PEX pipe was securely fastened to the fitting so tightly that I could not rotate the fitting on the pipe, it was 'one piece'. But with the clamp ring, I could rotate the fitting with not all that much effort, the clamp ring did not do as good a job as the crimp ring. I could see a clamp connection leaking after a few years.
Great video, thanks 👍
Thanks. This was very helpful.
Excellent Video.. I have Questions on (1) How does those Plastic fittings will stand up to freezing Vs Metal fittings used in pex B pipping with crimping system? (2) Crimping with this fitting which reduces flow of water as they are not exactly 1/2 " or 3/4 inch when you slide inside pex B tubing, is there any inexpensive fittings which can donot do that at the same time will standup to freezing situation by not bursting ?
Is there a "Go" \ "No Go" tool or test after crimping or is that no longer needed, or am confused , due to COVID of course?
Why not use other expansion pex seems more sensible as has chemical memory wants to be original shape, is it because of tool price? What’s expander cost? I’ve seen pex only 1incb to 1/4 inch. Pity no clear or high volume, aware of.
Very comprehensive, except I wish he demonstrated removing those stainless steel rings. How do you do that?
Erik, thanks for the comment. As a matter of fact, I have a video that covers that exact question, you can find it on my PEX plumbing playlist titled Removing PEX Crimp Rings. Hope this helps you out!
NICE!!!.... thanks!
Thank you very much for the info Dan.
thank you
Very helpful, thank you.
Can you use the copper or stainless steel crimp ring on the plastic fittings?
Great video...
What fittings can I use for outside of the house to change a leaky valve to put a new one with those fittings
Poly butaline I believe is the name of the grey pipe
Fantastic info, thank you!
What are those plastic sleeves you used before Sharkbite fitting called and who sells them?
When I cut poly b piping it distorted and became a bit oval ...not good for sharkbite fitting. Thanks
Great video. Don't forget, it is a good idea to use the "shark bite" depth marker, for a reliable connection.
Nestor Calderon co