Hoosierdood
Grandmaster
I had to replace my shower faucet valve yesterday due to the old valve housing developing a crack. I have copper pipes. I bought a Delta kit and got everything installed, all copper fittings were soldered into place without issue.
Here’s the problem, I couldn’t find any valve assemblies that were designed for direct copper pipes to be soldered into them. They were all either Pex or threaded. So I bought threaded adapters for the copper pipes, wrapped them in Teflon tape, and installed everything from there.
After turning on the water, every single threaded piece is leaking. Not a big leak, but drips about once every 30 seconds or so. Maybe i should have used more Teflon or some pipe dope, but we’re past that. I can’t remove the threaded pieces without cutting all the copper pipes again. I’ve seen some plumbers epoxy, and thinking about covering the 4 joints in that, but I’ve never used it.
Anyone have experience with plumbers epoxy, or is there a better way to fix this?
Here’s the problem, I couldn’t find any valve assemblies that were designed for direct copper pipes to be soldered into them. They were all either Pex or threaded. So I bought threaded adapters for the copper pipes, wrapped them in Teflon tape, and installed everything from there.
After turning on the water, every single threaded piece is leaking. Not a big leak, but drips about once every 30 seconds or so. Maybe i should have used more Teflon or some pipe dope, but we’re past that. I can’t remove the threaded pieces without cutting all the copper pipes again. I’ve seen some plumbers epoxy, and thinking about covering the 4 joints in that, but I’ve never used it.
Anyone have experience with plumbers epoxy, or is there a better way to fix this?