How To Install Pipe Fittings in Plumbing?

Plumbing has to be carefully dealt that the plumbers can handle it on account of their training. It’s a field requiring proper pipe fittings and valves.

Push fittings and push-on fittings are other names for pipe fittings. They are designed specifically for use with rigid copper, Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC), and Cross-Linked Polyethylene (PEX) water pipes. All sorts of plumbing pipe fittings, such as repair couplings, hookup hoses used in water heaters, hose bibs, tees, elbows, shutoff valves, and unions, have their optimum pipe fittings.

Steps To Pipe Fitting Installation in Your Plumbing

Cutting the Pipe in Step 1

Cut the pipe or tube to the required length first. For a particular pipe material, use the appropriate tubing cutting tool. Use a copper tubing cutting, for instance, if you’re cutting a copper pipe.

Use a tubing cutting tool made of plastic if you’re working with a CPVC pipe. Use a PEX cutting tool for PEX. Keep in mind that the pipe may extend by about 1 inch within the pipe fitting when determining measurements for cutting the pipe. So bear that in mind while you cut the pipe.

Reaming and Deburring the pipe is Step 2

Ream the copper pipe’s end next. Deburr it as well. When eliminating any jagged or pointed edges that could remain after cutting the pipe, use the reaming and deburring tool. The pipe will be simultaneously ream from the inside and deburred from the outside by the tool.

Alternatively, use the backside of the reaming tool to ream the pipe. Deburr the external edge with a fine-grit emery cloth or piece of sandpaper. But you only need to sand the edge. Do not sand the surface of the pipe.

CPVC pipes and PEX tubing don’t need to be reamed or deburred. However, if the internal edge of the CPVC piping has any sort of ridge, you can carefully ream the edge using a utility knife, fine sandpaper, or emery cloth.

Once finished, clean out the pipe of any debris. After that, wipe the surface of the pipe or tubing with a clean piece of cloth or rag.

Useful hints: Some makers of pipe fittings supply deburring tools in various diameters. These tools function as effective marking tools for marking the depth of the pipe fitting as well as reaming and deburring tools.

Pipe Marking in Step 3

Mark the tube or pipe using a marker and the deburring tool (depth-gauge option). The complete depth of the pipe fitting should be shown by the marker. When you sense it has stopped, slide the gauge tool over the pipe end. Next, use the marker to draw a straight line along the tool’s edge.

If you don’t have a gauge tool, take measurements from the pipe end using any tape measure. Mark the tubing or pipe with a marker at the depth recommended by the fitting’s manufacturer. A flawless fit will result from doing this.

Installing The Pipe Fitting in Step 4

Put the pipe fitting over the pipe end at this point. Alternately, insert the tubing or pipe until there is no more room for it inside the plumbing fitting.

According to the marking you created for the pipe depth, the pipe fitting’s end needs to be properly aligned.

It will show that the piping or tubing is fully put into the pipe fitting after it is in line with the marking. The push-on fitting or pipe may be rotated 360 degrees after installation if necessary.

Advice: To stabilize a PEX tubing’s end, most fittings come with a PEX stiffener or bushing inside of them.

You would need to purchase a separate bushing and add it before installation because certain pipe fittings don’t come with one. When using CPVC or copper pipe, integrated bushings do not need to be removed.

Using a push-on removal tool, you can remove the pipe, tubing, or fitting as needed after installation. This tool features a little clip with a horseshoe form.

The device slips over the pipe. Simply place the removal tool over the region of the pipe where it connects to the push-on fitting.

Pull the pipe externally next. When removing a pipe fitting from PEX tubing, you must cut it from scratch before re-installation. At the pipe’s end, a clean, one-inch cut will do.

Pipe fittings for drain and waste lines are different from those for water lines. It makes sense that licensed plumbers never leave the house without a truck loaded with pipe fittings. They can accomplish installations and maintenance considerably more quickly than amateurs thanks to their magic cabinet.