Push And Twist Or Copper Fittings

EASYBOY1

im planning on re-jigging bathroom, are plastic push and twist fittings as good as copper ready soldered fittings. cheers!

southcoastrgi

alot of people will say only use copper fittings, but i've been using plastic push fit for donkeys years & get very few probs, just remember to use inserts & a proper pipe cutter (for plastic pipe) not a hacksaw, best of luck

muddyl

I work somewhere thats trains to fit bathrooms etc.
Push and fit is just as good. As said, use inserts and you'll be fine.
The only advantage of copper is the connections can be cheaper in bulk.
But the plastic is flexible, much more of an advantage.

OK_Sauce

I've used speedfit/pushfit connections for both my kitchen and bathroom refits. Ten years on, no problems yet!

andyhop

Plastic for DIYers

Copper for Tradesmen

50yr warranty of Hep20 My Ar*e, Rubber O rings i reckon will last less than 25% of this

chippi_2

Copper is more permanent and i prefer it, plastic is still relatively new in comparison and i know cases of mice and rats chewing through it!. It will be interesting to see how well it does in another 20 years.

southcoastrgi

andyhop wrote: »

Plastic for DIYers

Copper for Tradesmen

50yr warranty of Hep20 My Ar*e, Rubber O rings i reckon will last less than 25% of this

absolute crap, if you buy a new house you will find that nearly all the pipes under the floor are plastic & only change to copper where they are on show purely for the look & the fact they are ridge so don't bend & move, what warranty do you get on copper ? none at all, i bet every plumber in the country has speedfit stop ends in their tool box & use them under floors, what's the diff ? nothing, i have been in the trade for 30 years & i use plastic all the time.

BlueC

I like to use copper pipes with plastic push fittings.

So sue me.

ormus

i know plumbers who use plastic nearly all the time now.
i still prefer to use copper.

budgetdiyer

The plumbing in my flat is a mixture of the two from when the kitchen / bathrooms were replaced. Last year we had a strange problem caused by a faulty mixer tap (which was basically putting mains pressure cold water into the hot water supply).

This caused a leak on a pipe under the floor which we replaced, and when testing to check everything was okay, the pressure blew a plastic joint out (where plastic was joining copper), now it could have been a faulty pushfit joint but i did'nt want the worry so replaced it for a copper joint.

This second fault did help us identify the bath mixer tap as the problem though!

lillytoad

I used copper push fittings on the downstairs bathrom and they were great ,easy to use and no pipe inserts or special cutting tool:T