Connecting copper to polybutylene pipe
I am remodeling a bathroom and discovered that the clients home has polybutylene piping.
I would like to install a new shower valve with copper and connect to existing polybutylene lines. The two choices I have are
1) to use a “Qest” fitting to bridge between the copper and polybutylene. This would eliminate the need to buy specialized tools (crimper, go/no go gauge etc.)
or
2) buy the crimper and guage, use a polybutylene to pex transition fitting and then connect to the valve using pex/copper fittings.
My is are the Qest compression fittings durable and reliable? Are the crimp connectors a better way to go? Is there a better way/product to use?
thanks
Adrian
Replies
shark bite.... no tools needed
agreed. greatest problem solver as far as plumbing is concerned. IMO anyway.
Sharkbite¯ couldn't hurt, & I'll put money on that lasting longer than the polybutylene will.
If it was my house I would rip out all that polybutylene. That class action lawsuit wasn't for nothing.
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” —Benjamin Franklin
Thanks for the suggestion to use Sharkbite fittings... The only reason I didn't consider them is that the information on the web where I looked at them said they were not for polybutylene pipe.If it were my house I would be get rid of the polybutylene pipe as well.Adrian