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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Got a call from 78 year old neighbor. He had a water leak in basement. His modular is plumbed with gray quest, crimped on the fittings. If I recall reading years ago quest went out of business, class action, because fittings leaked.

I was lucky to find the up graded quest like fittings to fix his problem at the only place left in the county that sells mobile home parts.

Area planning put the hurts to the single wide mobile home business by requiring they may only be put in a mobile home park or under get a wavier to be put on your property. The waveirs are hard to get. So there is no place in my county that sells mobile homes or modulars.

Menards and Lowes only have the Push In connectors, PEX of PIX not sure name.

I've used them, expensive. Not always have good luck with them either.
 
I have had good luck with sharkbite push in fittings, make sure there are no burrs on the end of the pipe and wet it to lube the o-ring when you shove it in. Our house has copper, cpvc, and pex, and sharkbite fittings work on all of it.
 
Shark-bite fittings work very well and I have the same old gray pipe in my home and have used the shark bite fitting many times over the years and none have ever leaked
 
I am surprised you got it fixed without the pipe breaking from movement. They gray stuff gets brittle. My FIL is a plumber and he won't touch the grey unless it is a tear out. He got tired of being blamed for the leak that starts downstream tomorrow.
 
Was the actual polybutylene tube at fault, or was the leak due to the the gray acetal plastic fittings they used at one time with the poly cracking?
 
The fittings had clamps and one of the clamps wasn't installed properly or it just came loose.

Yes, the old gray quest was somewhat hard. I used special pipe cutter.

Lucky neighbor.
 
Old,
I never heard of Shark-bite fittings. Menards carries a push in connector that fits plastic, copper, and the quest replacement flex plastic. Expensive and I've had issues with it if copper has just a little pit in it.

I had a place that was a mix if iron, hard copper, soft copper, and plastic. It got so bad, I replaced everything with cpvc.

That said, it was a practice in older homes to use iron pipes to attach a ground wire to. I know of a case where a kid was killed by touching the outside faucet. I wonder if at one time the plumbing in the house was all iron, which someone used it as a ground. Then replaced some of the iron with plastic. The faucet was no longer grounded. Boy ends up dead. Only speculation on my part what actually happened. Something to think about.

How is the world treating you?
George
 
Old,
I've never heard of Orchen's farm and home store. Your brass shark bite fittings look similar to the plastic pex fittings sold at menards. Bet they are pricey too.

The problem I've had with pex is it leaks on old copper and then trying removing the fitting 5 years later, it's all limed up, damage the o-ring, then pitch it.
George
 
Pex fittings need a special tool to crimp the ring around the pipe, if done correctly they will not leak, will tolerate freezing, are fast and easy to install. Shark bite fittings just push onto copper, pvc, or pex and can be removed and reused, and are real handy in fixing copper lines when you can't get all the water out to solder them.
 

my house was plumbed with polybutylene in 1988. The tubing itself is still perfectly flexible, I have replaced most of the crimp on fittings, all but about six. I hope to get to those very soon.
 
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