Plumbing problem

hearinggloss · 2007-02-16T13:58:36+00:00

Hi everyone,I redid some plumbing in my basement and it went well except for onething:I can NOT get one area to stop dripping. It's a spot in a hot waterline to the shower where I joined 1/2 inchCPVC to 1/2 inch copper. I used a male, threaded CPVC fitting into afemale, threaded copper fitting.I used pipe dope and tightened it as much as I could. Any more tightand it probably would break.I have redone this fitting three times and it just won't seal, alwaysdrips. As I said, I used pipe dope one time.One time I used teflon tape. I was told that both of these are ok touse in this situation.Now, oddly enough, when I take a shower and the pipe gets good andhot, it stops dripping.When it cools, it starts again as if the expansion was sealing it.I'm out of ideas.Help?Thanks

Feb 16, 2007 20 Replies

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tonyshy3148 12 years ago

I tied a half inch copper pipe to half inch cpvc with a gator ninty it sealed to the cpvc will not seal on the copper.what should I do.

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