MattG
Active member
Doing some bathroom remodel work, bought the expansion gun for Pex A because the existing tubing running up there was feed by it, so had too. It’s been great and went highly recommended. I like it a lot better than the crimping style pex actually.
Now downstairs the old pex feed lines were shark bite in with a tee On the copper pipe, and worked and is still currently working as I cut off the supply tubing after the shut off and plan to tie in elsewhere in the basement.
Now I could buy a rigid pro press for $1200 that only does half inch and three-quarter or I can spend $800 and get the Chinese brand tool for 800 that does half-inch through 1 inch. Go into my basement and eliminate all the other shark bites that are used in the system elsewhere from previous owners at unknown times during renovations and repair valve feeding my boiler that I need to redo.
OR
I could just spend the $30 for the two shark bite teas and install them further down the line and plumb up the bathroom and move on with my life, but of course cannot do that. My brain does not work like that.
The crazy part about all this too is here. I am losing sleep over this and my neighbor down the street is having her bathroom renovated by a contractor and I stopped over the other day and I look inside and the shower valve is attached with shark bite connections that are tiled in behind the wall. Yet I’m over here like oh I don’t know if I should lol
Now downstairs the old pex feed lines were shark bite in with a tee On the copper pipe, and worked and is still currently working as I cut off the supply tubing after the shut off and plan to tie in elsewhere in the basement.
Now I could buy a rigid pro press for $1200 that only does half inch and three-quarter or I can spend $800 and get the Chinese brand tool for 800 that does half-inch through 1 inch. Go into my basement and eliminate all the other shark bites that are used in the system elsewhere from previous owners at unknown times during renovations and repair valve feeding my boiler that I need to redo.
OR
I could just spend the $30 for the two shark bite teas and install them further down the line and plumb up the bathroom and move on with my life, but of course cannot do that. My brain does not work like that.
The crazy part about all this too is here. I am losing sleep over this and my neighbor down the street is having her bathroom renovated by a contractor and I stopped over the other day and I look inside and the shower valve is attached with shark bite connections that are tiled in behind the wall. Yet I’m over here like oh I don’t know if I should lol
