Plumbing made easy for the home owner
- fal1964
- Feb 15, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 16, 2025

Plumbing for home owners is getting a lot easier; There are new fittings on the market that are called Shark Bites that are making plumbing really easy for the home owner to do with out calling a plumber and costing you a great deal of money; These fittings require no tourches or hot irons to use; so now you have no worries of fires in your home; And you only need basic skills of hand tools and the ability to install pipes; The Shark bite fittings come in a variety of sizes from 1/2 to 3/4 to 1 inch and up depending on what you need to replace in your home; The come in the form of ball valves and chrome valves also; They are used to install copper and pex plastic pipes; you can get adapters that will allow you to intrigrate from copper to plastic with out any problems; Pex pipe come's in many different sizes and colors and is rated for 30 degrees below be for frezzing; the shark bite fittings install just by shoving it onto the pipe by hand and no tools are required to do so; all you have to do is cut the pipe to the right length and in insert the shark bite fitting into place; You can get on to; You tube for a video to show you how to install the fittings and how to cut the pipe for easy fitting; and with a small tool you can take the shark bite fitting off and reuse them if they are not damaged; Most hardware stores now carry these fittings; Home depo and True value hardware carry a variety of fittings and valves for the home use; These fittings are a great money saver for the home owner; and like i said if you have basic skill of tools you will no longer need that costly plumber and this will be a savings to you for other home repairs.

Im a contractor and have been working with plumbing for 40 yrs now and these are just what you need for a quick fix or a perminent plumbing job;; There you tube videos out that show you just how easy they are to use; and how much money they will save you;
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