RE: [SilverStreak] Pex Job and Propane Lights

["Bev Harris" <zia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph,

I'm using the "white fittings".  They're by Watts.  When you say the Sharkbite 
are better, could you explain more about the differences you found?  I did a 
test with the Watts and found they held the water pressure and were very 
easy to work with.  I'm wondering what's better about the Sharkbite.  I'd like 
to know before I get very far.

Bev

-----Original Message-----

> Mitch, 
>   There is no doubt that the work will be worth it, just keep plugging away. 
> My wife and I have been looking for a rear bedroom trailer for years so you have 
> a gem there and once you get the water system fixed you will enjoy the layout long 
> after the trouble of fixing it is forgotten. One thing I did was locate my splits 
> and cut them out and patching with pieces of garden hose and four hose clamps so I 
> could go camping at least a couple of times before tearing into the system big time. 
> It took two hose clamps per end of garden hose but we camped for the rest of the 
> first summer with it patched before I started cutting out sections of copper and 
> replacing them with PEX. I used a white plastic kind last year (can't remember the 
> brand name), have started using the brass "Sharkbite" this year. Both work but the 
> brass ones work a little better. As I wrote a couple of days earlier to the group, 
> the copper will be swelled out if its too close to where it was
>  frozen and burst. Then you have to find a high spot in the copper line where there 
> was no water to splice in the PEX at. Hang in there.
>   Joe