SharkBite 3/4 Inch x 300 Feet White PEX-A, Made in the USA, Flexible Water Pipe Tubing for Plumbing, UA70W300

Excellent pipe that was easy to work with, priced good, and reliable made. the quality you expect from Sharkbite.

It worked perfectly with the shark bite couplers.

Only time will the final arbiter of the true quality of this product. As of this point, I have no complaints or regrets. Once I connected the fittings, I could not pull them apart. I seriously tried as these fittings were going to be buried and had no desire to dig them back up. I used a manual tool for attaching the fittings and would highly recommend the automatic tool if you are planning on doing a whole house in PEX-A. The manual tool is a workout.

I am fairly new to installing PEX and I saw this was PEX-A which should be the most flexible you are able to purchase. With the wall thickness for 1" PEX it really is not easily flexed at all. You cut the straps on the coil and it just stays in a coil. You have to work hard to start to straighten out the roll for use. I have to assume this is normal for all 1" PEX-A pipe. So, a little hard to work with, but still so much easier to install than copper pipe. When I purchased this it was the best price for 1" PEX-A I could find and I am very happy with the product.

Good quality from what I seen used 370ft of the 500 new water line for my daughter's house

Good line no issues

I'm not a plumber. I was replacing a crappy Bosch tankless hot water heater in my basement with a new Navien NR 180 A tankless. Originally I planned on just using the existing plumbing. It would have fit fine and taken me less than a couple of hours to install, but that plumbing had some serious design flaws. Like I said I am no plumber, but common sense tells me a pipe shouldn't branch off the main water line at a 90 degree elbow pass over the heater on the hot water outlet side turn 90 degrees to go 3 inches to the middle of the heater then turn 90 degrees to go to the bottom of the heater then turn 90 degrees to go to a scaling filter located below the heater then pass through to the outlet of the filter turn 90 degrees up 2 inches and then 90 degrees back 5 inches then, at last, turn 90 degrees up to the cold water inlet. That seems a little excessive on the 90 degree elbows, all of which were soldered 3/4" copper. Then the hot water came out of the hot water outlet through a flex line that hit a straight pipe in front of the heater till it hits a 90 degree turn going back towards the heater but 3" below the ceiling till it is hits another elbow going up to the ceiling into another elbow that leads back to the hot water line next to the cold water line till it hits two more elbows that climb in step fashion into a joist bay in the ceiling. My conclusion is that someone hired a plumber from a Dr. Seuss children's book and I couldn't live with it any more, but as I said I'm not a plumber and hate sweating copper pipes that are attached to wooden structures that are covered in highly flammable foam insulation that is sprayed into the bays and can't be removed. The only solution I could find was pex. I used 2 - sharkbite connectors and 2 Sharkbite 90 degree pipe supports and two sharkbite flex connectors and got rid of about 15 feet of copper pipe and 15 copper elbows. I was also able to locate the heater 7 feet closer to the bathrooms and kitchen. I had no problem finding the numerous youtube videos on how to install pex and use the sharkbite connectors. I went with the push fittings, because I only needed two of them to join the existing copper to the pex and two of them to connect nipples for the scaling filter and the hot water outlet. The tools for the crimping connectors are very expensive, while the only tools required for the push fittings is the tubbing cutter and the sharkbite deburrer/ gauge. I was surprised that none of the joints I created leaked at all. Now I have a clean looking hot water heater installation and no more Whoville plumbing.

If you need any "straight" tubing, this will be a pain. It holds the curve of the 30" diameter coil and refuses to give in to any attempts to permanently straighten it. Not a failing, just an observation.

maison

tres satisfait

Did exactly what was expected. Very good flexibility for making bends. Would buy again.

I purchased this sharkbyte pipe, and I had nothing but trouble with it from Day 1. I had to do some of the fittings over because they were leaking on the first attempt. This morning I went down to install an outside faucet and when I ran the cutter 2 turns around the pipe it cracked. Not at all happy with this purchase and I purchased a 100’ of it. Got me wondering if I should replace the pipe I already installed. I went down to the local hardware store and purchased some expansion pipe that looks like a clear pipe, never had a problem.

You cannot bend it straight. My guess is that it is old stock which was coiled up for years. Even a heat gun doesn't work.