Antex Pipemaster Pro - quick review

[alan]

To which you have to add the cost of labour to fit, and possibly the use of unskilled labour.

[Onetap]

I've never seen a properly soldered joint that had failed.

Badly soldered, elbow worn through, dripping compression joints, etc., but never a good soldered joint.

Plumbers usually use end-feed in their own houses.

[Dave Liquorice]

Trouble is the falure mode of push fit plastic tends to be the pipe popping right out of the joint or the O ring giving up, both of which either produce a lot of water or a fair amount of water.

Compression failure mode tends to be just a weep. Solder rarely fails.

[Rob Morley]

That's because it's cheap. :-)