Snooped around the water leak to find the water leak in my home is NOT due to a rain cap on the furnace flue - there is a drip at this thing.....
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In the picture, the work "SPLIT" got cropped out a little - I did pretty good getting the picture in, though! This is a picture of the water heater INSIDE the house. Elbow coming from water heater has been under pressure as it was installed wrong to get it into the cramped space it was stuffed into - the elbow finally gave up the ghost at the pressure point and is leaking at the split. Thank the Good Lord it didn't pop off completely!! I'm going to leave the false panel in the closet OFF so I have PLENTY of room to build an effective repair here. Can't get any help at Home Depot - the old hag there just gives me a scowl. As "little as I know", from what I see, this grey pipe is call polypropylene pipe and is no longer used / allowed in new home construction? What can I do here? I imagine I would need to get an assortment of elbows and some sort of pvc-to-polypropylene junction of some sort, right? Is the junction I'm referring to called a "shark-bite" connector allowing me to stick in the grey pipe in one side and pvc on the other and then forget about it?...
I would have thought this device ( http://www.sharkbite.com/how-to/how-to- ... onnectors/ ) would have been the PERFECT solution to my leak, not only repairing the split in the connector but also providing a handy shut-off it ever needed AND allowing me to snip the 3/8" polypropylene line and just shoving this on - looks like a quick fix. What do the real plumbers think of this?...
Thanks for looking,
Mark