Can a pex connection be tightened? I have a drip on this 3/8 connection on the supply line going into the house, less than a year old
You can try re crimping it, it might seal. To bad you didn't use the rings like the other side has. They are easy to replace. Maybe someone else will chime in with a better solution. Keith
You CANNOT tighten pex connectors. I would pull it apart and redo it with the crimp rings like the joints below your hand are done, like Kieth mentioned.
O I know your not supposed to, but I had one dripping from a hot water tank, I received it as nd it sealed up........now mine always leaked, not became a leak. Worse you can do is try and if not or worse your tearing it apart anyways
The manifold were the drip is was put in by the builders plumber, the white pex and the copper bands and valves were put in by my plumber. The leak was still covered by dirt and sand and was not noticed by me or the guys that put the valves in, I don’t think they had anything to do with the leak but the builder might argue the point if I can get him to answer a phone call or text.
Fixed!! Texted the builder, he contacted his plumbing company, they showed up and he crimped the wrong connection before I got out to the front yard. Showed him which connection was leaking, it took him longer to walk to his truck and get the right pair of pliers than it took to crimp the connection and the drip stopped. I’ll wait until tomorrow morning to cover everything up. Double check things. Thanks for your input.
Your lucky you found it before it was buried and the city did a water use audit. Thats the newest thing up here; at your expense of course!
I'm old school. I still like soldered Copper - but not here in Florida where the water hates copper. There are still some things that are great about New England. It's Pex or PVC here.
Your brass colored fittings in the pictures are required to be wrapped in Saran Wrap prior to being buried in the dirt. That's in the Zurn Pex instructions.
Your brass colored fittings in the pictures are required to be wrapped in Saran Wrap RYSM??? How about soldering a bonding wire to the whole system to a chunk of zinc buried in the ground...
Bonding would be required if the repair was on metal pipe. When it is necessary to bury a fitting directly in the soil, Zurn recommends protecting the fitting and crimp ring with a heat shrink sleeve, foam pipe insulation, or several layers of plastic film such as Saran™ Wrap. Tape can be used to keep the plastic layers in place, but the tape should not come into contact with the Zurn PEX tubing. It is recommended the fittings not be buried in concrete.
The fittings have to be low lead now so basically they won't last. We are switching our Galvanized and brass Iron Pipe fittings over to Stainless now but stainless is brittle so we will see. It's a real problem.
