How to Install a Shower Valve With SharkBite How to Install SharkBite Fittings Push-fit plumbing fittings grip the pipe with a ring of stainless steel teeth inside the fitting, while one or more O-rings inside the fitting make a watertight seal around the pipe. If the pipe is not perfectly...
Copper-to-PEX push fittings are available under the brand name Shark Bite. They are made of brass, which won't corrode copper, and are manufactured with internal tines that hold the pipes against an internal O-ring to make a watertight seal. As the name suggests, you simply push these fi...
New plumbing was a snap with the deployment of Shark Bite connectors and PEX tubbing, so that Stanna will have that extra hand-held shower she’s envied every time we visit a Swiss hotel. We even remembered to place nailer blocks in the studs for that grab rail we will soon be needing...
water supply tubes and other plumbing fittings. The valve (or other part) has a port where the pipe slips in, and the port has male threads on the outside. Before you fit the parts together, you slide a compression nut and a compression ring onto the end of the pipe...