re: Shark Bite Fittings

I've used them a few times, but down in the basement where all of my water lines run along the joists. If there's a failure there, I just have wet concrete in my garage. We had some renovations done about 10 years ago, and they used the brass compression rings. I had one of those fail and create a small leak. It had only been there about 5-6 years. I cut out that section and replaced with shark bite, and it has been fine. Anything can eventually fail, but for transitioning between copper and PEX, they work fine. Thankfully the plumber put an in-line cutoff valve before the transition from copper to PEX, so my quick repair was fairly easy. I just had to turn that valve off and drain the line, cut and replace. I wouldn't hesitate to use them for stuff like that again.