Location for PVC parts needed!

[Delphinus]

There really isn't a good one stop shop for the best selection of PVC parts.

I sympathize about the Home Depot selection, it can be really hit and miss. Sometimes they have what I need, sometimes not, but it's hard to beat the convenience of location since they're everywhere.

The Rona by my work though generally has a pretty good selection (this is the one on Macleod Tr). They have a decent selection of valves, unions, couplers and elbows. They have a basic selection of bushings but not a complete selection there.

Otherwise I usually just go to Western Pump (just by the south Princess Auto in the Douglasdale industrial area). They'll have street fittings, just about every kind of reducing bushing combo (slip vs slip, slip vs threaded, etc.), unions, valve, and they have half-union valves.

If you want a true-union valve though (the kind where you have two unions flanking the actual valve), or a gate valve, you pretty much have to mail-order this from a place like J&L, or bulkreefsupply.com ... unless Red Coral happens to have the exact piece you need (they do have a reasonable selection of PVC bits in that shop).