PEX PIPE?

Give your insurance agent a call and let him fix it for you.

You can cut them off square and buy a couple of shark bite type slip on valves at Lowes or Home Depot. This is quick and easy.

Everything you need is at Home Depot or Lowes.

Replacement pipe, fittings, valves, everything.

gwalter wrote:
You can cut them off square and buy a couple of shark bite type slip on valves at Lowes or Home Depot. This is quick and easy.

x2. PEX is a great product and easy to use.

Unlikely that the fittings would be damaged from a little twisting. The ones in RV's typically have a barb and screw down compression ring, so there's a little bit of play for rotating without compromising the seal.

I prefer the copper compression collar fittings to the screw-on Flair-it type, and have a mix of both in our coach, and lots of PEX in our home from remodeling products. I'll never sweat another copper pipe if I can help it. Invest in a good crimping tool that looks like a bolt cutter if you're planning to re-do fittings.

I have been using the pinch type stainless pex clamps for years and never had one leak. The clamps can be cought at your local home center or plumbing store. The tool is much less expensive to buy online if you can wait a couple days.

Pinch tool clicky

How to fasten new valves.....

When the shark bites
Into PEX dear
Connections. are made
When the Shark bites
into Pex Dear
Water leaks. Go away

Ok so you likely guessed the tune

The easiest way to connect to PEX is sharkbite connectors (Lowes/Home Depot/Menards/ Most plumbing supplies)

Cut the pex "Square" push on till it stops. give it a bump (About another quarter to 1/2 inch) and done the other end of the sharkbite is 1/2 Inch IPT thread to your valve

There is also a type of connector you can find at most RV stores called a "Flair It" you slip a nut over the pex then use a tool to slightly expand the open end shove the Flair it up into the pex and tighten the nut down on the connector.

I like the sharkbite's myself but have both in this RV.

I've used copper compression rings and they have not been a problem. If you're not handy, like someone else suggested, use Sharkbite fittings.

My whole MH is flair-it my whole house is flair-it, I like flair-it.....Sark Bite ok, but way over priced

Flair-It 16889 Plastic Straight Stop Valve, 0.5" Size

Easy to install - no tools are really needed.