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That plumber on YouTube told me to avoid push fittings. I should have listened.
My neighbor Dave swore by those SharkBite connectors for a bathroom sink swap. Said they were foolproof. So I used them to rerun a hot water line under my house in Springfield last month. Worked fine for three days, then one let go at 2 AM. Flooded the crawlspace. Had to cut it all out and solder copper joints like the old guy in the video said. Cost me $60 in extra parts and a Saturday. Has anyone else had bad luck with those quick connect fittings?
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noah_webb23d agoMost Upvoted
Hold on, is it really that big of a deal? I mean, a flooded crawlspace at 2 AM sounds awful, don't get me wrong. But a lot of the time people mess up the install, like not deburring the pipe or pushing it in all the way (I've done that myself, honestly). I've got a couple of those fittings on a cold water line in my garage that have been fine for two years. Maybe your copper had a tiny burr or the pipe wasn't cut perfectly square.
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tylermurray23d ago
Two years isn't long enough to prove anything. Those fittings swell and get brittle over time. Give it 5 or 6 years and tell me how that garage line is holding up.
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