Beginners Guide To SHARKBITE Fittings (Watch till end BEFORE Buying!) | GOT2LEARN
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2024
- There's a LOT of videos that talk about Sharkbite fittings on RUclips, but not from A to Z and in this video, i'll cover everything you need to know from PRICE, to where you can USE these, to all the PROS and CONS.
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Start - 0:00
How a Sharkbite fitting works - 2:00
On which pipe can they be installed on - 4:22
How to properly install one - 5:12
How to remove one - 9:35
Pros and cons - 9:54
My opinion on them - 13:34
DISCLAIMER: Got2Learn is NOT responsible for any damage done to a property of which the plumbing wasn't done by a professional, I do not recommend doing your own plumbing if you are unsure about what you are doing, always hire a LICENSED contractor when doing any type of plumbing so you can be covered by insurances if something does happen, these videos are for entertainment purposes only!
One of the best videos of all time! Not kidding! To all RUclipsrs out there- note these features:
1. No obnoxious music (or any music) in the background.
2. No obnoxious "flash screens", quick transitions, drop screen to black and light up again transitions, etc. This content is very comfortable to watch.
3. Clear, understandable speech- see item 1 above, as well.
4. Content is well organized and formatted.
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So you can't hear the music in the background, because it's there 😯
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I agree. Clear and consider speaking!💖
@@karenrose2260 Thanks!!!
Installed sharkbites in my bathroom about 13 years ago, 1st plumbing thing I ever did, all with maybe just a brief read of the instructions, and of course some prayer, and they are still working great.
What an organized, methodical tutorial. Great job. Thank you.
I am a 76 year old retired HVAC service tech / installer. It is time for me to install a water powered back up sump pump. The pump I purchased has a shark bite inlet connection.
My plan was to pitch it and sweat all the needed connections for the pump and new water line.
I then decided to check into these things. Although being retired and working on my own home means time is not my concern, lazy is a big factor.
Once again THANK YOU!!
You are welcome! ☺
Bewhere shark bites will leak after they freeze a couple times
A very informative clip. This guy knows what he's talking about. Most home owners screw up everything they try repairing.
In the 70's I was an apprentice pipefitter and my boss who was the owner, always told me he wasn't a plumber. Your approach to dealing with copper reminded of the Master Pipefitters I worked with - you discussed the most important elements of the trade. Keep up the great work!
This video is excellent. Clear speaking, quality images, no wasted time. Never checked the time the whole video. Thanks!
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Eight years ago, heating went out for a couple vacation homes where I live.
The house fitted with copper had destroyed connections throughout the hose. Serious water damage.
The house fitted with Sharkbite fittings had some 'stretched' pex, but NO leaks... NO failed Sharkbite fittings.
After seeing those results, when I remodeled my house, adding 1 1/2 bathrooms, a sauna and extra tubs in the basement, I used Sharkbite throughout. Extremely easy... and I took my time to make sure EVERY pipe was properly squared, properly cleaned before insertion. I may never sweat copper again.
Niceeee, thanks for your input :)
You are crazy sir. I would be going crazy checking for leaks when using that many Bites throughout the house
We installed a new CPVC line in our crawl space. Everything was going great till we got to the shut off valve. The pressure kept breaking the joint right next to it. We tried multiple times and made sure we glued it well and let it set up. Still kept blowing the joint at the valve. On the 4th try we bought a shark bite valve and I was hooked ever since. Great product! Haven’t been disappointed yet. Highly recommend!!!
I have installed an in line connection underground when a gardener broke the irrigation pipe. It was easy as pie and the special wrap kept it looking like new when I removed it 4 years later when we replaced the whole system. SharkBite has saved me a few times! I love that system.
Installed my Sharks about 5 years ago for hot water tank. Did not know what I was doing and just stuck them on. They are still working great.
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you were probably shown to clean the ends of your pipe up somewhere along the line and make a clean cut. Thats really the only trick. Making sure its seated, and not going to kill itself upon install
@@edgarvera654 Googled Va lp and I still do not know what it means?
So there worth the money???do you live in cold climate?
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Explanation is super clear. Demonstration was well prepared with crossed section pictures that are exceptionally clear.
A job well done and I appreciate your time and effort!
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You are SUCH an excellent educator, and I appreciate all the work you put into producing these videos. 👏 Your provide use examples for each case, purchasing & prepping all the materials, and you are SO THOROUGH! Thank you! 🙏
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This just saved me a small fortune when working on my backflow system from my sprinklers. 100x easier for me to just cut the pipe, installed and thread in my ball valve, and then connect the pipe again with the Sharkbite. For $8 I just saved myself a $150 plumber visit - thank you!
I worked for a guy doing irrigation in Cape Cod Massachusetts he said you need a plumber to install a back flow. Im in Tampa Florida now i heard you don't need one.
One of the best instructional videos I've seen on the Tube. Everything clear, to the point, without getting sidelined, VERY clear pictures.
Thank you so much Lewis!!!
This is a great video. At first I thought "surely it doesn't need to be 15 minutes" but you really did a fantastic & thorough job covering everything you could possibly want to know about using one of these fittings. I always gotta drop a comment on videos with this much effort put in. Keep it up!
Thank you sooooo much!!!
One of the most detailed, informative and straight to the point with great clear visuals on shark bites. Thanks for making this video!
YW!
Thanks for putting this video together. The presentation was clear, succinct and professional. I liked the fact that you highlighted the pro's and con's for a product that is not quite there in so far as absolute confidence is concerned - that these joints wont break down after a long period of time or where they are not easily accessible.
What a terrific, clear, concise, and honest report and instructions. Thank you so much, I will start using these, since I did not trust them before, but did not know why. Excellent work.
Excellent tutorial and I saved it to my "How To" playlists. Your clear speech and good volume makes it easy to understand. Thanks for all your work on these showing the cut-a-ways and such. Already a subscriber.
Awesome, thank you so much!!!
I want to sincerely thank you for this video. You inspired me to complete a task I have put off for more than 6 months. Given that I have zero experience with push to connect fittings and my project involved cutting our main water supply to the house I have tried to do all the preventive planning I could. I followed all of your tips and warnings very carefully and I am proud to say that the project is successfully completed. Keep up the great work and thank you once again for your video post.
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They are great for quick fixes on our vacation home in the desert. The home has polybutylene pipe and shaekbite also makes fittings to adapt from that to copper/pvc/pex. I’ve replaced all the connections to the faucets using these with zero problems. Planning on tearing out the polybutylene and doing a pex repipe in the near future.
When I noticed that my plumber used these to fix a leak, and charged me $250 and took only 15-20 minutes I started looking for them. Since then I have fixed several more and replaced a lot of old copper pipe with Pex and saved thousands. The oldest ones are holding up for near 20 years now.
Niceeee, thanks for sharing!!
I repaired a tee under my house I had the disconnect tool (I bought 2) but it was still difficult to remove the old fittings. I ended up opening the jaws on my channel locks bigger than the pipe and tapping it off.
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I went under a house that has copper very little room so I cut out the copper each run at a time and remade it with pex outside and squeezed under and pushed the connections . I could only imagine having to solder and the pex can handle hard freezes without burst. Had the whole house done in 4 half hours got paid 2200 bucks
And that’s the nice thing about Shark bites,the average guy can fix plumbing leaks himself and save
lots of money.
That was a great video to watch-actually enjoyable. Professional, clean, concise, coherent, no filler, no bias, and your experienced opinion was saved for last and stated as your preference. This is how videos, especially trade videos, should be done. Thank you for a great video and all the work you put into it.
Thank you so much!!
You said it. Not only are his videos good instruction for people who want to learn plumbing, they should be used as how-to videos for everybody else doing how-to videos on the internet.
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Yes, terrific video, and everything you said, appreciated the opinion at the end only AFTER explaining the technology. I agree with his take, that copper sweat connections are proven to last essentially forever, while the push-to-connect doesn't yet have a track record that long.
Thank. Thank everyone so so sorry I I love that I can keep my my head hurting
I used a Sharkbite 90 and valve in my crawl space about a month ago. It worked in the heat of the (leak) moment without issue; especially for someone who previously had zero plumbing experience. After watching your thorough breakdown and deep dive, I'll still be looking to replace them with soldered copper items, as I have no comfortability issues with doing that. Thank you very much for the video.
I like how you list all the pros indicating you favor them, but then say you don’t trust them! (Not in those exact words) That was funny!
Overall, they are good, I personally just don't use them, thanks hehe ;)
Love the cut-away and burr turbulence demo! No need for mystery on how these work. Knowing what's inside and showing some of the common ways they can fail helps make better decisions on where/when to use these over another product type, thanks for a great video.
Thank you very much Michael, I really appreciate it and I am glad I was able to clarify some stuff, have a great day!
Very educational. Glad you gave your opinion on lifetime function. No where else can you find this information. Thanks.
Great job i thought the same. A ounce of prevention is a pound of cure.
I've doubted these fittings for years but your video was so descriptive I'm going to try them out!
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I came across these when I made a hole in 1 inch irrigation pipe. The pipe was buried a foot deep, next to 3 other lines and the break was an inch from a 90 degree elbow. It would have taken a huge amount of labor to carefully dig up enough line to glue in the parts to fix this nightmare! I found an 18 inch long, one inch repair tube, used a jigsaw to cut the irrigation tube, wrapped a homemade jig and used a file to get a flat end and plugged the bendable repair hose right on. This bypassed the mess of other pipes and trying to cut the proper parts for a 90 degree replacement. I have left the pipes uncovered for a year now to make sure it wouldn’t leak. This is a great product! And definitely follow the proper install prep described in this video!
Fantastic DIY video!
I am an old head solder guy who soldered on the job for 30+ years. Now I am going to give a shark bite valve fitting on a running water pipe a try. Liked, subscribed, and shared.
Thank you 😇
Don't forget to share :)
This has got to be the best video on Sharkbite fittings that I've seen yet! Thank you for a great presentation!
Wow, thank you!
This is an excellent video on Shark bite fittings. I love the cut away view of how the fittings work inside. Also very valuable to see the pipe preparation to ensure the fittings work correctly.
Thanks man, very nice comment :)
An absolutely fantastic, and detailed video, going through all the steps that are critical for planning & proper installation. I am running a single PEX cold line to my home brewery and watched this and feel much better now, know the proper way to install. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome!!!!
As an electrician who hates dealing with water and solder, I’ll go with these types of fittings any day of the week. However, I appreciate your content, I did learn something, and the info was concise and easy to understand. Great quality.
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Why would you even be doing plumbing? Hire a plumber, add 10% to his price and charge the buyer.
@@Alamyst2011 I mean in my DIY situations. I tried it once....never again!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@g-dub4593 fair enough
Good video. Very informative. The Pro/Con, and personal evaluation at the end summed it up perfectly. I also came away with two valuable tips; don't skimp-out on the tools or the prep work. If you do, don't blame the fitting afterward. Also, the real-time demo was impressive (it's hard to argue with a real time demo).
That was amazingly helpful! I have a 200 year old house and have been patching leaking pipes with copper and solder for years....and I can't believe I'm just considering Sharkbite fittings now. Thank you very very much for your help. This was fantastic!
My pleasuee Kirk, have a great day :)
200 years old home. I didn't know American houses can last that long
I have been using John Guest QuickFit connectors for 38 years now hot and cold water and heating, copper and pex pipes. Never had a single leak at a joint, including those that are over 30 years old.
I preferred the original JG connectors because they are smaller and click straight away. The new ones have the locking nut, which a don’t really think is needed. The new ones do have the advantage of easy of disassembly, so you can replace to o rings if you need to. I have a box of used fittings; they will have been used again and again, often to put in temporary plumbing while repairs or remodelling is happening. Never thrown one away.
They are certified for hidden/in-wall use in most of the world, and I have no hesitation using them in any location.
I haven’t used Sharkbites, but it is the same company as JG. I guess the brass body is a comfort for some users who are suspicious of plumbing in plastic. Sharkbites are difficult to remove compared to Speedfit, which is why I have never used them, but I don’t doubt they make a good long lasting joint.
My question is: why do compression fittings still exist?
Very informative! I started my sloppy repairs of quest butylene pipe back in the day when these first came out, with mixed results most likely from the mistakes you discussed. I then went to Pex copper crimp rings and I just purchased the Pex A expansion tool this year as it seems like the best longevity.
Hands down, the best, most informative video I've seen on SB fittings. Well done!
Wow, thanks!
Roger that!
Thank you, you answered my question. I was worried that it still would spin after I installed on the pipe and afraid of a leak at that point, but when you said that it could be repositioned and showed it , that relieved my concern.
My spigot falls down because it spins. How do I prevent it from spinning?
Fasten it with screws ;)
@@bacard1002 If you're talking xbout a sillcock (like the valves used outside for garden hoses), they usually have 2 slots, or screw holes to mount them. If not, you can always use silicone caulk.
Great video! I had no idea how important the pipe prep step was. Thank you for putting this video together! I feel a lot more confident going into this water heater install I’m about to do.
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Thank you SO MUCH for this VERY informative video. I have been doing property maintenance for condos here in Florida for 28 years and I can honestly say I have never used these yet. I’ve heard of them tho. Well I now need to put a toilet in my mother in laws house and she has PEX so I was looking at valves and decided to try the shark bite on hers BEFORE I try them with one of my tenets 😆😉. I have SERIOUSLY learned EVERYTHING possible from your video on this fitting. I very much so appreciate your time and effort you put into this very educational video for all of us out here. Thank you from Florida, USA 🇺🇸
You, sir, have done a most excellent job at describing this. Your training techniques are incredible. Great job!
Wowwww, thank you sooooo much Roc 😇😇😇🤘
This is absolutely one of the best instructional videos ever!
Thank you so much!!
Great video. I have been amazed at why they work. I have seen them after they have been installed. Due to a recent leak on an exterior laundry room. I saw one being installed and was very amazed at the installation and security of the repair. This video makes the operation of the fitting very clear. The video was very well done and did not bog down as some videos I have seen by opening package etc...
This is by far the best educational video I’ve seen for shark bite. Thank you for sharing
Wow, thanks!!!
Had to replace my water heater on Christmas Eve. Slew of family coming the next day. There is no way I could have finished the job in the time available without these fittings. I am definitely a fan.
This is the best video I've seen about shark bite connectors. I like how you detailed each piece in the cross section, it makes understanding all aspects just great. Thanks for a great video
You are most welcome, please share if you can, it helps the channel tremendously ✌✌
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Seeing the inside of it cut in half like that is helpful, now I'm not questioning how they work anymore
Great information. Thank you. Car drove into my concrete house foundation two weeks ago and needed to move my copper piping fast. Used the Sharkbite brass push fittings with Pex tubing. Not a single leak because of this awesome video. When I sweat copper back in, I think I am going to tie-in the runs with these due to some really tight areas. Fast and easy, but not cheap.
Wowww, nice to hear you were able to get that fixed in a snap, happy to help out 😇
Huge thank you for putting this out. This gives me a lot more confidence to do some of this around the house plumbing stuff myself, almost all my pipes are in open areas so it seems to be a great place to use sharkbite
You can do it!
@@Got2Learn u can connect pvc to it right? Not cpvc but pvc
Great demonstrations. Nice to have the grey tipped one's work in converting/repairing PB pipe or just converting to wirsbo. FIP & MIP adapters are handy as well. Having the pipe spin has helped with alignment countless times but if they had one that didn't spin it would be helpful in certain situations too. On to your evoPEX vid..
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Man did you ever do a good job on this video. You covered all the bases and I now know what I need to do to get my plumbing job done. Thank you for your time and effort.
You make exceptional videos. They are extremely informative yet fun to watch. I hope you are adequately remunerated as you deserve to be. Thank you!
I sure am, thank you sooooo much!!!
This is the very best video on the use of Sharkbite fittings I've found. It helped me avoid making mistakes (which I was about to make) while repairing my plumbing. Thanks SO much!!
Glad I could help!!!
Yep clear layout. The pace seemed a bit slow, but thorough is good, so.... my intro to SB fittings. It took me years to master soldering, maybe 1/365 years. And after that day, maybe 2 cold joints out of thousands. Soldering is simple and fairly quick. The places it’s hard to get your torch into are where I would trust SB the least - esp walls
That is about the most thorough DIY video I think I have ever seen. Very impressive!
Wow, you made my day :)
@@Got2Learn appreciate you cutting one open. I do tons of repairs with these. A local guy at the hardware store told me to remove the internal pipe stiffener for copper repairs. I disagreed, but still wonder why he would think that? If only to help increase water flow. I can't find anything online referring to removing that piece out for copper pipe. What's your opinion on it?
Harpoon999 Ditto!!
14 years ago my brother in law used a saddle fitting to connect water to my fridge. Now I have purchased a new fridge and I found that there is no shut off to the fridge. I researched and found you video on using shark bite fittings. Seems the best solution for my need.
This is anecdotal, but perhaps valuable. I had a new water heater installed 10 years ago. The handyman who installed it soldered some joints, and used sharkbites on some joints that he didnt want to solder. 10 years later, 3 of the solder joints have failed, and all of the sharkbites are still good! Im sure a licenced plumber would have done a better on the solder joints, but it goes to show that for a DIYer or amateur, shark bites are probably the way to go. It takes training and expertise to get solder joints right.
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My brother-in-law successfully used a shark bite fittings and he could have trouble operating soap.
Thanks for this excellent video. There are other videos demonstrating and explaining how sharkbites work, but none as thorough as yours. I appreciate the impartial pros and cons and the cutaway views. Very convincing explanation of just how they can fail due to installation errors.
Thanks you so much Joe, I really appreciate your comment, please share if you can :)))
I love your attention to detail. I'm in HVAC and follow all the proper cleaning and preparations of copper tubing/piping. Sad to say I've seen many guys lack this attention to detail.
Thank you very much, yes unfortunately, some amatures lack the prepping :(
As a professional Pipe Fitter you did a great job explains the Sharkbite fitting, good job.
thanks!
This is the best channel ive ever seen! I concider myself a handy guy but have never been called a " handyman".... this video and everyother video ive seen here so far shows me why... thanks 40 years late... lol
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Dude !!! it took me length of your video to understand them well enough. In regards to where to put them, I'm with you. Only in exposed situations. Thank you so much for investing your time to share the knowledge.
I appreciate that, thanks for leaving a comment El!
That was a great presentation ....I have heard of those plumping fittings by shark, but never knew much about him until now, you did an Outstanding job explaining it.
Especially the cross-sectional view that was real impressive....Frankie-Massachusetts
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Great video. I love the pro/con approach and greatly appreciate the detailed explanation about the inner workings of the product. I thought I would share some real life feedback about a sharkbite installation.
Around 11-12 years ago I had an underground steel pipe leak (inbound from the meter to the house), and it had already been repaired using a menagerie of fittings and different materials. I had to connect steel and use pex to make it work with the previous repair. The repair held up until now, and the reason for the failure was the deterioration of the brass ends holding the plastic sleeves and ultimately the gaskets. However, this makes sense as I was not aware that manufacturer required a silicone wrap around the entire fitting for in-ground installations. It was clear that the soil did its thing and deteriorated the smaller metal pieces over time.
Knowing this I am actually re-installing another sharkbite coupling and wrapping it in silicone tape before putting dirt back over it. I really like the flexibility of using pex for a not quite straight installation between the city meter to the existing piping and being able to easily connect two different types of material. I have no hesitation putting a silicone wrapped sharkbite coupling underground into use.
One of the best instructional videos I have watched on any subject. So well done, and super informative! Thank you.
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I think they are a great temporary solution but it’s so hard to beat a proper sweat connection. Maybe pro press. Excellent video, your cut aways show all the details and your narration is awesome.
Thanks so much man! I too, prefer ProPress over Sharkbites, I don't like the way Sharkbite hold onto the pipe, but it's still a cool concept.
@@Got2Learn Crimp fittings take a beating and offer advantages over sweated connections. any thoughts??
Crimped PEX is awesome. The new Uponor expansion joints are the best, I wouldn't hesitate 1 second to do my whole house with it, best product ever.
Got2Learn Yes, Uponor definitely looks like the best pex fittings.
I've done 3 high rise buildings with this and we never got any fails or leaks, so it works.
I had to use these when my wife and I bought a three family home and we had to gut the second and third floors because of their condition. Being a 110 year old, balloon framed house there were walls we just couldn't move. Unfortunately some of the walls had been put in in such a way that there was less than 1/2" of space between the place where I would have needed to put a torch for a solder connection and the 110 year old dry wood studs. Perhaps a professional plumber would have thought nothing of bringing a torch in anyway and perhaps he would have thought that because it wouldn't have been his house that burned down if he was wrong. At any rate I wasn't comfortable bringing a torch in there. I've now had sharkbites in the wall there and in the bathroom for 12 years without a single leak. And yes I know for a fact that they haven't leaked because I make annual inspections of anywhere there might be a leak. If you take the time to properly prepare the pipe by cutting it square, properly deburring the inside AND outside of the pipe and then insert it fully into the connector there's no reason you should have any problem.
Always good to hear real life feedback, thanks!!
There are literally a hundred ways to solder in tight spaces.
You can use a fire blanket and then torch time.
This is a great video! The content was very informative & educational, especially for the project I'm about to undertake. Thank you!
Excellent video.......very well done!......In the year 2000, I put a plastic push fitting on the copper hot water line from my water heater....it was (is) a big gray plastic piece and I know that I didn't put it on perfectly (not knowing what I was doing at that time).....on the cold water line I used a standard compression fitting (also not installed as well as it could be). Both are still installed and Neither has EVER leaked ("knock on wood") but I remember some "experts" telling me that the plastic push fitting would melt! So....after watching this video and based on my previous water heater experience, and also my own lack of solding skill (and no solding tools), I'll be using Shark Bite connectors for my next repair/install. Again, thank you so much for helping us all out.
I have used a ton of these things from installing water fountains, to spigots, and many other applications. Fast, easy, but not cheap. Still worth it when you can't have open flame on a job. They work great!
Have you used them with HIGH water pressure with success ? thanks ! I’m looking to make sense of them !!
this is an amazing video in its ability to completely discuss and review sharkbite fittings. thank you for this video!
Thank you so much!!!
Two burst copper pipes in freeze. Pipe repair using Pex and Sharkbite fittings. Done by plumber. Two repairs on two burst pipes in the freeze in the ceilings. Observed the friendly plumber do the repair. He used cutting tools shown in this video. I do not remember the burr removal or deburring was done or not. There was no orange deburr tool with him and no utility knife. I am concerned. Total paid to plumber is $140. Beautiful video by the way - so easy to understand !
as a bathroom remodeler I have been using them for 15+ yrs, never had one fail! In fact, only ever had 1 problem with a push fitting and it was from a "blue point" brand I believe, Blue something.. it was a push fitting that Lowes used to carry that failed, and at the time/area I was in it was all that was available and sweating the joint was not an option. lowes now only carries Sharkbite in my area so maybe I was not alone in having a problem with that brand's fitting.
That was a lot of great information that was on point. That tool used to remove the burrs from the copper pipe is actually called a deburring tool. I used them in the machine and tool and die shop.
You make an awesome instructor!!! Very well explained. Well done!
Thank you so much Rob, really appreciate your comment, have a great day!
Great Video, used these type of fittings years ago on super yachts with no reliability problems, I loved the inter connectivity with different types of pipes of the same diameter also the ability to disassemble preserving the pipe ... Personally I like them in cavities with access. I agree in not burying them except in low pressure irrigation.
You are most welcome, please share if you can, it helps the channel tremendously ✌✌
For any non professional person who is into plumbing projects, this guy is quasi-addictive
I just used all sharkbites to rearrange my plumbing and install a new tankless gas heater after the old tankless failed unexpectedly. It was $$$$ but made the project so much easier. I bought the special release tongues. All my shatkites are out in the open, so they can be changed to soldered conne tions at a later date. The ability to rotate them is certainly handy.
great videos as always. One caution I have not seen though, is to avoid using them on tinned joints ( in reno work the old valve is quite often heated and removed, and a quick temporary cap is often a sharkbite fitting. Be cautious: the teeth do not grab well on the hardened tin surface (don't ask me how I know). Equal caution if you replace with a sharkbite valve
Great point, thank you for adding this in Peter!!
I loved this video, particularly the explanation of how they work and how the copper pipe needs to be cleaned first. I have a small job and I wouldn't have installed it properly without this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Just picked up the fittings this week to fix a spigot running outside. I can un-solder but have never learned how to solder pipe and fitting together. So I have known about SharkBite for years….. thanks for the great tutorial
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Thank you for this wonderful video. I have been soldering copper pipes for many years and decided to try these "Shark Bites". Your video gave me the knowledge that I needed and helped me to complete my project. People like you make this world a better place. All the best!! ~Dan~
Wonderful!!!
I install two of these last weekend on my washer water cutoff valves. I can't believe how well they work. I will be uploading a video soon.
Awesome, nice channel btw ;)
Umm clearly the most in depth video about Shark bite fittings 🙌🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 always the best!
Thanks!!!!!
I was always in doubt about using the sharks connectors. But after watching this video on installing them and the pipes they can be used on, it's very helpful.
This s video is by far the best one I have seen. Covers everything needed to know in a way that is professional and no stupid BS. Very good job. I now have all my questions answered.
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Thanks for this, I have a small repair to tackle and I just might go with these. The space will be on the tight side and I am not sure about soldering in there... It will be accessible so I can check on them from time to time.
Go for it. My experience is 100 percent for these little buggers. Other than the price I have encountered no negatives. Tight spaces was my circumstances and they saved me calling a plumber. Now, I had problems but they were unrelated to the sharkbites. I wish I had gone on website before I started. That would have saved me some headaches. This was also my first time taking one apart( several times). This guy's tutorial is perfect. Unfortunately, I had to learn those tips the hard way. Good luck!
I'm a plumber with over 25 years experience. I live in Reno. NV. I have seen shark bites freeze and break actually split down the side. It flooded a laundry room. SO THEY ARE NOT PERFECT. They are easy to use and a good option for quick and easy installations. I would not use walls that are not serviceable
@@donquandt3877 LOL copper freezes and breaks as well. Nobody said they were perfect. They're good for an easy diy fix that won't cost a car payment like a plummer would.
@@donquandt3877 Any type of fitting can freeze and crack. Would it have failed if it didnt freeze?
Absolutely outstanding. What an education on shark fittings. I’m sold.
The best part was the way the material was conveyed….. very elementary
for all beginners. You now gave me the confidence to do my new bathroom plumbing.
Dude I would NOT bury these in the wall lol. Coming from an experienced contractor.
Your videos are always well done, SUPER informative. Thanks! This type of content is what makes the internet great.
Glad you think so Tommy, thank you so much!
A very professional video that covers everything imaginable with respect to using this type of fitting. HIGHLY recommended!
Glad you liked it!!!
I work at Home Depot and found your training to be great...! Good job and thanks for the information on Shark bites.....Now I know how to sell them better.
Wowww awesomeeee, thanks Albert!!
Very good explanation on how they work. I, like you, have never used one in a closed wall.
Thanks!!
I love them and have never had a problem with them if there not pushed on all the way they will leak but if correctly installed no problems at all..
Exactly. Why put reusable joints in a closed wall anyway.
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Very informative, love that you cut the fitting in half so you can see how they actually work!!!! Thank you
Thank you so much. It's really important to fully understand not only WHAT you are doing, but WHY and so many instructors don't take the time to ensure that happens.
That’s pretty much par for the course with everything recently. I work as commercial electrician and I’ve ran into many electricians who say they are journeymen or even masters, and they pretty much all know neutral is split from ground in sub panels and bonded at main panel but they rarely actually understand why. I’m sure it’s annoying to those around me but I have to understand why I’m doing something before I’ll do it.
Excellent explanation. I especially like the fact that you showed how these fittings work (and the cutaways are a great help.) Now I know specifically what conditions of the cut end could lead to a leaky connection. Lots of valuable info. Also appreciated the quality video, closeups, good sound, etc. Well done! Thanks.
Thank you soooo much Manuel! 😇😇😇
thanks for this fantastic tutorial, you do a tres bon job explaining all aspects of this!
Merci beaucoup T M, I really appreciate it!
I actually used one of their faucet cutoff valves today to replace a 50 year old fitting that had finally failed. I was fortunate to already have the pipe cutter and deburring tool from my other hobbies, so it was a simple matter of cutting the old soldered fitting off and pressing this over after the proper prep. No leaks so far and I don't expect any for many years since I paid attention to the guides online.
I’m just starting on plumbing my tiny house. Bought PEX B and fittings. This video is very helpful since I have virtually no plumbing experience. Greatest concern is installing the propane tankless water heater. Fortunately, there is a great diagram showing everything that I can follow.
Being that my house is on piers (and I live alone) I’m planning to keep all of the piping, vents and drains inside the house, not inside the walls. The only part outside will be the septic connection and the vents terminations to outside. Also the tankless vent to exterior for exhaust gases.
EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) is a synthetic rubber that has been used for decades in automotive serpentine drive belts with great success and reliability. Considering the horrendous environments and stresses the belts are exposed to, I have no concerns about the o-rings in the fittings lasting a LONG time. Mechanical damage to the seal from incorrect pipe preparation, however, may mean that behind-the-wall installation could be problematic...
Great video! Detailed and clearly explained (especially the cut-a-ways), and you separated opinion from fact, which is something every instructional video should do.
Thanks!!!!!!
After Hurricane Sandy, I used Sharkbites on copper/copper, copper/PEX, and PEX/PEX. It’s been over 12 years on over a dozen fittings and never had a leak. I even reused them for outside water lines after an early freeze, replacing the copper with PEX.