As expensive as those things are... I think us plumbers will be okay for a while.


The fittings that frighen me are those cheap plastic fittings you find with the big compression joints. Any time I've seen them they've been leaking. Haven't yet had a problem with a sharkbite, but still I don't ever use them inside walls.


There's also another fitting, it's an angle stop, with a similar connection as a sharkbite. However, it's also got an integral supply line built into it. The thing is, instead of using the removal tool like you would with the sharkbite, with this fitting you twist it to the right 90* and it pops off. My first thoughts were, "Well, what if the supplyline is a bit too long, causing binding, which then pushes the valve to the right?"


Can't wait to see what happens if these get sold a lot.