Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:45:58 -0500, micky
wrote:

How long does Sharkbite last?

I have to replace a toilet shut-off valve and all that HD had was
Sharkbite.

They say it doesn't leak but they don't say for how long it doesn't
leak.

I don't like the idea of selling the house and the new owners saying bad
things about me after I'm gone, like I did about the previous owner for
his terrible caulking.

They are supposed to last about forever. I had a couple of them in my
house but only for a couple of years now. In my case, I used them in
a couple of places where it was difficult to safely solder and I'd do
it again.

Same here. I wanted to tap into the pipe that goes to my front hose bib,
which is at street pressure, and run a "street pressure" pipe for my back
hose bib. The pipe is way up is right up against the front wall and the
pipe to the back of the house was going to run over the ductwork, up in a
joist bay. On my workbench, I sweated the complicated section where the
pipe comes down from the joist bay to the hose bib, then ran a length of
PEX across the basement and used Sharkbites to connect the PEX to the
copper at both ends. It's been 5 years or so that's all I can attest to as
far as longevity.

The fun part was the SharkBite cap that I used when I removed the old pipe
to the rear hose bib. I was procrastinating starting the plumbing job and
knew I needed something to get me started. I figured that if I removed the
old pipe to the hose bib, I'd have to install the new one. One Sunday I was
watching a football game. I got up during a commercial, turned off the
water to the house, cut the pipe to the hose bib, popped on a SharkBite
cap, and turned the water back on. I was back upstairs before the
commercial was over.