How to Join Plastic and Copper Pipes | Plumbing Guide for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2022
- Welcome to my latest plumbing tips video where i will be showing you how to join copper pipes to plastic pipes. I will show you step by step how to connect push fit plastic pipe to copper pipe and how to use different fittings. If you like the content leave a like and please subscribe for more content like this as I've got a lot more to come and there will be something that will help you out. Theres other plumbing tutorials on my channel to check out!
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I was thinking of this to connect PVC to copper pipes and now found you thanks
My mate told me I was mad when I suggested to another friend in the room about the inserts for the plastic PEx pipe , so that it holds his shape during compression. Told me he never met a plumber that did it. Came on to youtube to find it and here you are doing exactly what I said lol. Knew I wasn't imagining things . Great clear video mate thanks
The solid inserts are for compression fittings on plastic but when you're using plastic fittings to plastic pipe you should be using the superseal inserts (STS15's).
THANKS FOR YOU INSTRUCTIONS
I’m in the trade and I watched your vid on plumbing for beginners , and I’m really impressed. I know that the issues you covered are real issues for someone just starting out . So well done for taking your time explaining what’s what with pushfit and compression. Great vid .
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Really clear video and exactly what I needed to know. Thanks very much, You've got a new subscriber.
Thanks for the sub!
Just getting ready to do this. Glad I found your video. Had no idea about the inserts. You do a nice job of explaining the process. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful 👍
Great video, I have never mixed copper and plastic but feel a lot happier about it now! Thanks, keep em coming
Glad to help
Really informative and concise demonstration. Successfully moved a radiator to the opposite wall. BIG thank you 👍🏼
Your welcome 👍
Very clear and helpful, mate, thanks a lot.
Thank you, my job this week will use plastic pipe for the 1st time, looks very straightforward as long as the prep is not skipped.
Great, simple, straightforward video with clear explanation. Thanks.
Your welcome 👍
Followed your instructions to the letter to replace a very poorly installed 22mm copper to 25mm MDPE (no reinforcer and using a 25mm to 25mm mMPDE coupler) with an all brass 25 to 22mm, perfect quick first time leak free fit, Much appreciated !👌
Greetings from San Antonio Texas. Excellent. Your explanation is straight and to the point. You have really helped me move forward on my project.
Thanks.glad it helped you out.
That is really great for a lot of garden enthusiasts as well as builders who are too embarrassed to ask about it great video thank you so much you are a real star
Cheers 👍
Well explained.Thank you
Thankyou very much. I learnt a lot. Will be plumbing a new kitchen sink soon so your video on pipe connections was great.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video mate, very well explained and will surely come in handy for me in the future 👍
Awesome thanks a lot 👍
Nice video mate. As a DIYer I've used compression fittings with copper and plastic, but didn't know you could use push fittings. You've made my job of fitting a radiator tomorrow much easier Cheers!
Glad to have helped you 😊
You are a star mate in the way you explain things ... bloody awesome.
thanks!
Thanks very much for this vid, mate - you answered all the questions I had about connections just as I'm about to attempt the same behind what will become a tiled shower wall. Compression it is, cheers.
Your welcome 👍
I've got that Bahco adjustable. Possibly the best tool I've ever owned. I take it everywhere. Nice vid.
Thanks, it's a good adjustable
Excellent. Great communicator.
Thanks for the video just happened to run across it. Nice job I'm a plumber myself and I always use a bit of megaloc pipe dope on my compression sleeves just for the fact that , the squeek you hear when you turn the nut against the olive is the two metals starting to bind the megaloc works as a lubricant to keep it from seizing.
But that is just alittle tip I've been doing for 30 plus years of plumbing.
Thanks again for the videos I'll continue watching your videos and watch the older videos as well.
Thanks for your comment and good little tip 👍
Many thanks for this video. I actually need to do just this to join a new installation to an old install, and this will save me hours of work. Off to Screwfix later this morning!
You're welcome!
Really well explained, thanks. The first time I used push fittings as a diy plumber many years ago, the problem I had was that sometimes they're not fulling 'in' when they're 'in', it's almost a two-stage process - slide it in til it stops then push harder until it pops past the 'o' ring. Pointing out the pipe marks is excellent advice and would have set me straight back then. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot. Glad you liked the tips and the video
Very good thanks
Very informative,clear and a confidence booster to carry out the job in hand 🤜🤛👍
Thanks 👍
your vids are brilliant man, thank you
Excellent video! You just saved me hundreds of dollars……. Replacing my bathroom and shower fixtures….appreciate your input. I’m going with the pcv off my 1/2 copper..👍👍👍
Glad you found the video valuable
Top drawer mate 👍🏻just what I was looking for, finding your channel has helped me no end, keep up the great work please 🙏🏻 all the best.
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Great video, Ive never used plastic pipe and fittings for plumbing work before but I certainly will now, I always thought you shouldn't use under floorboards but after watching this video I am now confident there won't be any leaks, thank you
Thanks 👍
That's all new builds use in the U.S. is PEX (PVC pipe)
Brilliant information.
Great advice
Working to do as per instructions
Thank you so much for this. Now I understand what the inserts are for.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, used this info as I was firing my new WC BTW toilet and even though my job is maintenance and I’m doing this type of work daily it’s always good to get other peoples perspectives and sometimes it can really help remind you to do things the correct way!
Cheers, great channel
Absolutely. Thanks a lot 👍
By far the best diy tutorial on you tube
Brilliant, thanks
Very nice instructional video. Thank you
As a long time DIY plumber (3 kitchens, 5 bathrooms and counting), for me, it's Speedfit all the way, the DIYers friend. I hate compression fittings, no such thing as a quick nipping up! Would never use them on plastic pipe, even with an insert, there too much give in the plastic for my liking. If I have to use them (radiators for example), I always stick some ptfe tape on them from the get go, saves having to dismantle it when it weeps! Good clear video on how to use them.
Thanks. Glad you liked the video
Thanks for this. Have failed so often soldering them. 😂😂
Glad I could help
I must say your videos are brilliant
Glad you like them!
Very very useful video. Thank you so much for uploading this video. Really great video.
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Great video, clearly explained.
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Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes
Thanks a lot. Take care
Awesome - just found you as I am about to attempt to renovate my bathroom - you sound like a local too ! (Norfolk ?) excellent tutorial thank you
I didn't know you could do that, that solves a problem, cheers mate. 😊👍
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Impressive instruction 👍👍
Thank you for the excellent video.
Excellent mate just what i needed to know, Top Man👍
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Thanks, great video, very helpful.
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Great video mate 👍 really handy to know for future reference.
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Very clear and a great easy to follow steps, I’ve just subscribed 👍
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Great video. Good pace, good audio, good quality
Much appreciated!
Excellent, God bless !
Explained nicely!
Glad it was helpful!
Very nicely explained ,Thanks so much .
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I researched installing a chrome shut off valve on a pex pipe and was instructed to use a plastic insert on a 3/8” pipe but stainless steel on 1/2” and larger.
Thank you. Very helpful.
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Outstanding, thank you.
Thanks for all the vids - have a couple of coffee's or beverage of your choice - much appreciated.
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That very very reliable fitting started leaking 8 years later. Opened it up and copper corroded, turned green, and there are pits in the pipe under the space where the o-ring was. It's pretty obvious to me that sealing copper with rubber doesn't work, and I'm not sure why others think sealing a metal that corrodes with a rubber o-ring can last a long time. Sharkbite coats their o-rings with a grease, that should make them last much longer than these uncoated ones. I had two of them, one sprung the leak, second was full of green corrosion but had less pitting so it hadn't failed yet. And just for reference, this is city water, not even hard or anything like that.
I prefer to sweat a brass pex adapter to the copper. Then use the stainless pex clamps. I figure it should last over 40 years before the Chinese brass corrodes.
sharkbites leak when cocked the slightest bit.
very helpful video, thank you
Thanks for the video it’s basic of plumbing who made you excellent plumber
Very thorough exposA , appreciate the explanation, hope I can use info sometime, not yet though, thanks!
Thanks mate very much appreciated.
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Great video. Thank you very much.
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Well done diy guy!
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Thanks, I new something was missing, and it was the insert for pex and plastic.
Super informative video.
Many thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for taking the time to make the video I have one quick question is that just a standard half inch compression fitting and the package doesn't have anything on it that says metal to plastic or is that a specific compression fitting for different materials being joined
@@TheDIYGuy1 I guess what I'm asking is Is that the same fitting if you were doing copper to copper as you're doing copper to plastic
Great video lots of interesting information thanks
Perfect video thanks 😊
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Thank You for this video .
the Insert is the part I would
use .. 👌 ...
Perfect!
very well explained
Thanks, glad it was helpful 👍
superb video! thanks you
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Thank you.
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Well explained!
the insert on the plastic side is to keep the plastic tube from collapsing.
not collapsing in the totally breaking down sense, collapsing just in the slightly reduction of inside diameter sense.
the copper can’t change its diameter size, but plastic is a lot more flexible given its structure, so the insert will help keep both inside and outside diameters in the same place so the “olive” as you call it, can do its job and stay tight around the pipe to prevent leaks.
fyi, stainless steel pressure fittings hold up to 2000 psi, so if the copper fitting is rated to even half that at 1000psi, and the plastic pipe is rated to half of the copper at 500 psi, it’s well over the maximum pressure in any house hold all over the globe. un the united state the pressure doesn’t exceed 120 psi, so 500 psi, is well over the maximum pressure,
that’s allows us to sleep good at night not worrying about any unexpected leaking.
Can you use this method on an abs pipe
Nice, useful. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. Had a related question on mixing copper and plastic. I was wanting to replace a longish section (several m) of copper pipe with plastic. I know that normally any interruptions in a copper pipe by plastic should be bridged (e.g. with 10mm earth cable). Is there a limit on length for bridging?
JG peedfit always advocate using a silicone lube to prevent damaging the rubber o ring when making a joint, again check with the manufacturer to teach the proper jointing of pipes
Top video thanks brother 👍👍
Very helpful video, I will never understand why compression fittings were so poorly adopted in the US. They are for sale here but seldom used, I see these working very well in the UK all the time too. Must be like your guys outlets 1000x better than our US ones.
I don't want to sound like a back-seat-driver, which I am :), but in Japan they sell "connectors" with the copper side and plastic side tubing already attached on the other side. There is a flip side to this convenience, in Japan they sell almost nothing at a retail level so Amazon or other professional websites are the places to buy them from. There are also some threaded connectors if needed? Thank you for a perfect, short and truly informative clip showing your good heart willing to share real skills and tips:).
Another method I have used is to solder onto the copper pipe a brass fitting that has on the other end a barbed insert for a plastic pipe, to be secured with a crimp ring or clamp.
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Well presented clip 👌
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Brilliant video that any noob like myself could follow, subscribed
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Thanks man!
No problem!
Ive been plumbing for 45 years everytime i make a compression fitting use jointing compound evertytime !!
Good demo❤❤
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Good tips - Thanks
Anytime 👍
I had one yesterday and it was leaking I watched this video and guess what I tighted it the wrong way just gone back out and hopefully should be OK 👍 good video thanks
Your welcome
Sharkbites changed my life. Saved me hundreds and made me thousands 🤷🏻♂️
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Nice video mate
thank u mate
No worries
I like it what you show it thank you
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Some good tips. I have a problem with compression fittings: doing them up causes rotation. This is especially a problem with pex, because it actually can rotate. My solution for now is to crush the olive, undo the nut to release the rotation, then crush it a bit more and tighten up. Perhaps I'm missing some other trick.
Great video!
Cheers 👍
Need a vid on connecting different sizes. I have a 3/4" PVC going to 1/2" copper
I did my compression connections using your video, thank you very much for the help. Only thing, I didn't realise I shouldn't have used a super seal insert. I'll redo my connection with a plain plastic insert soon. Maybe you could add a point not to use super seal inserts with compression?
Cheers
Love these videos. As a remodel carpenter, we had to use licensed contractors for HVAC, electrical and plumbing. So I never picked up those skills.
Fortunately you make videos that give me enough knowledge to make a project continue or to work on my own home.
Thank you
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