Friendly reminder: Check your plumbing!

[sphelps]

It was never posted how or if the issue would be fixed, the point of my posts were to bring clarity to this matter and perhaps some helpful advice to the OP and others that the lesson here is more to fix potential issues rather than just promoting further inspection. It seems possible that one might not realize silicone is a poor adhesive for plastic hose and that is the only way to make such a connection so rather than making a solid connection the hose is siliconed on again and then inspected weekly but only to fail later down the road between inspections or when away from home.

As for parts just failing for no reason, it's unlikely to say the least. Two bulkheads failing instantaneously for example due to faulty parts... I would question that and put blame on stressed connections. You have to remember pipe and water has weight and combined with moment arms from rigid pipe creates high torque which can snap cheap sch20 or even 40 bulkheads if the pipe is not properly supported.

There is more than one way to look at things and adding to someones recommendations and posts is hardly talking away from them. Take it for what it's worth, if that's a an eye opener to fix your own issues before something similar happens good stuff but if you'd prefer to blame all your issues on an imperfect world so be it.

[brotherd]

I see both points.Yes correctly done installations are less prone to failure but even the best comercial systems and plants have routine inspections to find problems before disaster strikes.I like this topic.The "what if" scenario is always on my mind.