Tom, Great advice I have been reading your responses and amazed with your plumbing experience! My question is that I used a 1/2 pex/sharkbite fitting to come off the copper supplies for a new shower, how do you feel about pex/sharkbite fittings? Its been in for about 8 months now, no problems.

Recently discovered that a number of PEX tubing manufacturers do not recommend the use of Shark Bite and other push-on fittings with their tubing. Wirsbo/Uponor, Zurn and Viega in particular, especially on their colored tubing. The color coating is applied after the extrusion process and...

Looking for info on how a PEX re-pipe is suppose to look. I'm re-piping through the attic and intend to use a manibloc but have no idea what it should look like.

I currently have Windows Ultimate OEM 64-bit version installed. I have 2 hard drives on my system. My 160GB SATA hard drive has Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed and running very well. (C) I have a second hard drive (80GB IDE) on my system which has backup files. I would like to install...

I am building a new PC using a gigabyte 939 Dual Channel MB with 2 gigs of Dual Channel DDR ram. I have most of what I need bought, but I bave heard that a lot of devices I use don't have 64 bit drivers yet so can I continual using XP PRO on this PC until enough drivers are available. Also would...