Attaching RODI to PEX plumbing

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by tlhood

PEX crimp tool is pretty expensive for the one small job that I would be using it for. =/

Hardware stores rent them for around $10. Some smaller ones like home hardware often even rent them for free provided you pay the deposit.

[Ryanerickson]

If you don't wanna rent crimping tool use shark bite fitting they are Csa approved. Use a shark bite tee to cut into line outta that a shark bite valve 1/2 x3/8 then use a John guess 3/8x1/4 coupling this is just one Wayne doing it. the valve above in pic would be perfect but in all my years plumbing never seen that fitting for sale good luck.

[Ryanerickson]

By the way if you use a compression fitting anywhere with the plastic John guess pipe you need a metal sleave inside the pipe or it will let go at some point and flood your house. It's a little 3/4 inch long brass looking piece that slides inside pipe so when you tighten fitting it does not just crush the pipe.

[tlhood]

So this is what I am dealing with in the utility room. Does it bother anyone else that the thing is crooked....

Anyways, if I can rent some pex crimpers and such for a reasonable amout, I have no issues with using those over the sharkbites.

I was hoping to put the rodi on the vertical line before the make-shift manifold they have in there, or the horizontal line below it.

I would throw in a pex x pex - comp T with a valve, and then run an extra long rodi line across to where I want to set up my water containers. I want to deal as little with the pex as possible.


In the mean time, I have my rodi plumbed in under my bathroom sink.

[Gary]

I would install a small bracket to help support that water meter. There is a lot of tension on that 90 prior to the meter.

[mike31154]

Oh my, that mess can't have been done by a plumber?!?! What ^ Gary said. I'm kind of glad my old place is still full of copper.

[sphelps]

Wow

[tlhood]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Oh my, that mess can't have been done by a plumber?!?! What ^ Gary said. I'm kind of glad my old place is still full of copper.

I don't know who did it. House is 10 years old, just bought it, and the home inspector never said anything about it. I wasn't happy about it when I saw it. The more white piece of PEX on the far left is pushing it down. I tried lifting it a bit to see how much slack there was, and there wasn't a whole lot. There would be a whole lot of messing around with cutting the pex and redoing it and putting proper brackets on it.

If I can't do much myself I may have to call in a plumber =[

[WarDog]

That mess would drive me crazy. I'm having a hard time even looking at it. Your plan to tee off where you indicated will work just fine, but I would redo the whole thing, lol. Remember to turn off the water supply, open the highest and lowest faucets in the house and a 5 gal pail ready for when you cut the pex.

[tlhood]

Originally Posted by WarDog

That mess would drive me crazy. I'm having a hard time even looking at it. Your plan to tee off where you indicated will work just fine, but I would redo the whole thing, lol. Remember to turn off the water supply, open the highest and lowest faucets in the house and a 5 gal pail ready for when you cut the pex.

It's pretty messy down there. I want to get a nice manifold with valves in there too. I also need to figure out where the right line goes. I noticed in the ceiling that is Ts off in 3 directions. No clue where the other two go.

All I wanted was to hook up my RODI to a copper cold line and be done with it. Le sigh.