What To Know About Is PEX vs Polybutylene Plumbing Leaks Bad Pipe and Fittings Read Below
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
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Thanks, Chuck very informative.
Thanks for the compliment
Thank you!this is exactly the material on our leaking water pipe
I'm in the process of changing all of my brass pex fittings over to plastic. Soft water eats right through brass. i am on my fourth pin hole.
Well Done
All of a sudden..... I am soooooo depressed, ugh.....
Have it. You have to replace it now. Almost all insurance companies now require a 4 point inspection upon renewal. Pex, aluminum wire, pacific electric , old hot water heaters, roof without at least 3 years left will get you cancelled. I know, I’m in that boat and it sucks.
USAA and no issues with poly.
@@DomnSan it depends on the inspector they send out. My neighbors didn’t get caught during his inspection. We wanted to switch insurance companies but couldn’t because nobody would touch a home with a roof over 10 years. Keep in mind some of this is unique to Florida.
@@Imwright720 no inspection from USAA and I have in writing that they cover homes with poly, or any other plumbing.
@@DomnSan I’m glad since they cover military personnel. That’s how it should be. This country doesn’t do enough for the people who serve.
So can you use brass pex fittings and crimp rings on Polybutylene? I need to repair before I replace it with real copper.
Depending on the brand its possible to use the same fittings
Is the issue with Chlorine or Chloramine? We have a lot of Chloramine in our water in California, a result of bacteria and chlorine use. I have measured it as high as 2.8ppm
It could be both
Chuck, have you run into a gray pipe that has no markings at all on it? Looks just like polybutylene and probably is but I can’t find any writing on it, at all. I’ve looked everywhere. House has some areas where it looks just like your fitting in the video, blue Pex on one side and grey PB on the other side of the metal fitting. Thanks so much….
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The only two types of Grey Pipe I am aware of is PB and Grey PVC for electrical conduit
@@southernhometalk2465 thanks very much for your reply, that’s what I thought and conduit would not have crimp fittings on it and be tied into Blue PEX on a T fitting so I can safely assume this is PB 😀
Im pretty sure it is. PB was used from the mid 80s to the early 2000s and most-likely PEX was used to replace a defective section
Hi... Would you say using a curved 90 is better for end pressure, as opposed to an elbow fitting 90?... Using 3/4 pex...Thanks...
I would think so. The larger the main branch service the better. A lot of this also depends on the water pressure coming inside the home. There are many things that can effect water pressure.
more fittings lower flow rate if you get i believe its pex A but its the type you expand and it shinks on the fittings tht shldnt cause restrictions nearly as much
With polybutylene, do you have a recommendation transitioning to pex as far as using crimp rings or cinch clamps? I ask because the transition fittings I've seen just have the rings and not the clamps.
Most PEX is connected with Crimp Rings and requires a special Crimp Tool to apply them. It is important that they are crimped correctly. Check out some other CZcams videos on how to properly install PEX. Take care.
to transition from poly to pex the make 1 style coupling tht im aware of the poly uses a futting slightly larger then the pex does in a pinch i have used a pex fitting on poly but i wouldnt rely on it as prior to being crimped the fitting is sloppy in the poly if you can i recommend removing all old poly pex is cheap and can make bends without the 4$ fittings
There is but ONE Poly-B to Pex Fitting and the fitting comes with two RINGS. THe Larger (wider) ring goes on the POLY-B and the other (reg size/width) RING goes on the PEX side. They do NOT recommend the SS Crimp fittings. NOTE: the Fitting itself has a POLY-B and a PEX side. PAY Attention. It appears that the OLDPOLY-B FITTINGS are the primary cause of leaks where POLY-B piping was installed originally. You may get away with simply replacing all the fittings and re-using the continuous lengths of the grey piping that are not readily accessible. (As when running fifty feet to feed a bath at the other end of a mobile home.) So far, every leak I've found was the result of a corroded fitting.
There are some COMPRESSION fittings available that fit the POLY-B. Check a decent hardware store.
@@notcharlesso my house has Poly B, and this was my discovery. I found corrosion at the fittings, but the actual piping was in really good shape. I’m probably going to still replace quite a bit of Poly with pex and new fittings, but I feel a lot more confident about leaving the poly in some spots and just replacing the fittings and valves. Way cheaper than paying a plumber 5 grand, maybe $500 for my entire house
Cinch Clamps will allow use of regular PEX fittings, I've never used a transition fitting
Grey pipe is the devil
Do you know if there's a fitting for going to pex a?
Are you trying to go from poly to pex ?
@@southernhometalk2465 yes to plex a, I have a DeWalt tool that stretches the pex a then you insert a fitting and in 5 seconds it shrinks back down to a water tight seal. I'm getting a rental ready and it has the gray polybutylene coming up through the floor. I'm looking for a fitting to connect it to pex a (stretch not crimp)
@@eclecticgentleman I would contact a stand alone Plumbing Supply Company
@@eclecticgentleman PEX-A is fully compatible with all PEX joining methods so if you can't find an expansion/uponor style to Polybutylene fitting the crimp fittings will work just fine.
Rather just use copper
I'm the same, copper just seems a known quaintly, it's been used for decades. I didn't know that PEX is susceptible to sunlight. Somehow I rather have water in metal pipes than in plastic ones that I don't know what is leaching off the walls into the water.
@@marcusdamberger
It cant be as bad as the tons of lead that was used in both water mains and 50/50 copper solder joints way back in the day...
@@marcusdamberger Copper is a nutritional supplement. Plastic is not.
@@bigglilwayne7050 Bad deal. They should have used silver solder as required.
@@solarsynapse
What does silver solder have to do with lead water mains lol