Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Plumbing PEX question - urgent advice needed please 2Jun 16, 2020 8:32 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Plumbing PEX question - urgent advice needed please 8Jun 16, 2020 10:59 pm Like I said before I'm not a plumber so I'm happy to be corrected. The fitting has a very long barbed tail that catches the pipe. Ideally you want to see the pipe completely in the viewing hole but as the pipe can be seen I'm pretty sure you will be ok. If the viewing hole wasn't there the pipe may only be in the fitting a few mm and will obviously fail. If you can see it through that viewing window (even if it's not fully home) there's still a good long length of barbed tail for the crimp to be compressed against. I'm sure the pipes have plenty of redundancy built in. I'd say as long as the pipe extends past the actual crimped section that looks about 5mm from the hole you are not going to have problems. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Plumbing PEX question - urgent advice needed please 9Jun 16, 2020 11:21 pm alexp79 @SaveH2O what would you say? Nothing wrong with it. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Plumbing PEX question - urgent advice needed please 11Jun 26, 2020 8:56 am Will it leak? No 99.99999999% of the time these crimps will be fine for the entire service life of the installation...... BUT! Check the manufactures installation for that brand of PEX. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I was a plumber and now a hydraulic services designer, and have been involved in a couple of fights with PEX manufactures over defects, and would not leave anything to chance that could give them a way to back out of a warranty because they will. If i saw these joints on my home i would be getting them redone properly. All manufacturers of crimp style PEX fittings would specify similar to above that the witness hole should be completely filled. If there is any issue with a part of the installation the manufacturer will take one look at those fittings and have a way out of any claim made. Since it was not installed to the requirements. The other thing to check which is probably to late now, is to make sure that all the fittings and all the pipework are from the same manufacturer. Plenty of guys mixing fittings and pipework from different manufacturers, and often with stuff out of shipping containers from china at 50% the price tag as from trade stores, which is another issue all together..... Thank you @. Tried to play with the facade models but the exact colour is not matching up. 2 3783 thanks Chippy, i hope they have applied sealer but i am doubt to be honest, so i am gonna do this job after handover. 8 17143 I am building in claymore NSW and this is shown in the building envelope plan. … 0 10785 |