toilet plumbing problem

[serenityacres]

Help, our toilet is leaking at the shutoff valve. We bought some parts, such as a flexible tubing, to repair it without the shutoff, eliminating it all together. but the plastic tube? How do we get the valve part off, without cuting the tube? My husband says it takes a crimping tool, to put the tube back over another fitting.

[David Oxhandler]

"Plumbing in a manufactured home can be quite different than plumbing in a site-built home. In fact different enough that plumbers in many areas will not work on mobile homes. Why? Some plumbers don’t like to work on the new plastic waterlines. Others don’t like the fact that things such as tub faucets and drains aren’t standard. Another reason is just plain laziness -- too much work to crawl under a home to get at a waterline. There is also, "You just never know what kind of plumbing mess I'll find, so why mess with it at all?"

Today’s plumbing in manufactured homes can be described as ‘on the cutting-edge of technology.’ Because codes for site-built houses are strict and hard to change, mobile-home manufacturers are often the first to test new technology. Thanks to mobile home manufacturers, this country is now seeing a shift towards plastic waterlines -- more specifically, a shift to cross-linked polyethylene (pex)."


Read the rest of the free article from Mark Bowers Understanding and Installing Manufactured Housing Waterlines to get a grip on how to repair or replace the plumbing in your manufactured home.

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