[Tommy plumber]

Do the cinch clamps that you use fit snug on the pipe. The new ones that their selling around here at the supply house are real loose.

I dont cinch clamps, those are crimp rings.

And technically we are not supposed to soft solder under a slab either......Shhhhhhhhh. LOL.

 

[TerryTotoSucks]

Do the cinch clamps that you use fit snug on the pipe. The new ones that their selling around here at the supply house are real loose.

I’ve been using Sioux Chief crimp rings. Real happy with them. I buy them in bulk from Pex Universe

 

[skoronesa]

I dont cinch clamps, those are crimp rings.

And technically we are not supposed to soft solder under a slab either......Shhhhhhhhh. LOL.

I don't understand why you used pex at all here. If you're okay with those two solder joints why not just use a short piece of copper and two couplings?

Also, you may have made pinholes more likely to occur again by introducing a dielectric material. What did the inside of the pipe look like?

 

[Tommy plumber]

I don't understand why you used pex at all here. If you're okay with those two solder joints why not just use a short piece of copper and two couplings?

Also, you may have made pinholes more likely to occur again by introducing a dielectric material. What did the inside of the pipe look like?

I wanted to test out pex in that application.

Brass and copper can touch all day long. Galvanized steel can't touch copper....that's a no-no in our code.

People are usually given {3} options:
1} spot repair,
2} re-route the line over-head;
3} whole-house re-pipe.

I can guide them but it's their call.
I have a whole-house re-pipe coming up in January.