Leaky Stop Valve. Installed Shark Bite Ball Stop Valve. DIY. 

Wish I knew how to get that second side copper pipe to magically grow longer to push it into the valve.

I appreciate the fact that you show and explain and don’t get carried away with nonsense commentary

Woah!! How does the copper pipe on the right suddenly have the ability to move longer or shorter to match up to your Sharkbite valve fitting? When you cut the original copper line and removed the old valve, I said there's no way the new Sharkbite will work because the second connection (the right side pipe, in this case) will be too short and won't reach to insert into the Sharkbite. The pipe on the right should have been immovable and rigidly in place.

This is an excellent DIY video! My shut-off valve to the outside house bib is completely stuck due to mineral build-up (and being 26 years old perhaps). The original ball valve is on copper pipe that is soldered. I had a plumber come out to do an estimate and he (being the honest neighbor that he is) suggested I could easily do this myself with a Sharkbite ball valve - and he was right! This video gave me both the step-by-step instructions, and just as importantly, the confidence to do this job. FYI - to get the extra "play" in the pipe to make up for the few inches of copper pipe I had to cut out with the old fitting, I simply saw that further down the copper pipe heading to the outside hose bib it was held up against a joist by a u-shaped hanger. I simply removed the nailed in hanger, allow the copper pipe to flex towards the new ball valve and reinstalled the u-shaped hanger where it made sense. The copper pipe is soft enough to have that kind of "play" it it if the pipe run is of any length.

Thank you so much! Worked like a charm!!!

Hi Jonah, Thanks for answering my question about the incoming water on the Sharkbite ball valve! Robert

Highly suggest the SharkBite deburring tool before making the connection. It also gives you the correct depth that you can mark so you know when you bottom out.

Thank you 🙏 So helpful

Very helpful!

It's a very helpful ☺ thanks sharing.

Thank you, I have this tomorrow to do

Nice job Mate, thank you very much for the vid

This was great. Thank you

Thanks a lot. I just had to push the Shark Bite Ball Stop Valve a little further onto the 3/4 cold water copper pipe , then it stopped leaking. Thank you.

Thanks 👍

The only way to go 👍👍👍

If there’s play in the pipe, no problem. If there’s little to no play in the pipe, you need to buy the slip version of the ball valve, The slip type of valve has one side that is longer than the other. You slide the pipe into the longer side first, PAST your insertion line so that you have room to get the other side in, then you slide it back the other way.

Thanks boss

Nice video. Of course, my pipe is not movable. I'll have to get some more pipe and a connector.

Why did the pipe on the right turn when the valve was rotated? Black mark on the pipe moved up and down when rotated valve

The dreaded gate valve!!!!!!!

Clean and straight and not sharp. The end inside presses up against a rubber ring. Best for use at the end of the line, never behind a wall or in the mainline.

Where can I buy that accordion-type copper pipe to easily connect the right end?

Something isn't right here? You cut off excess cooper pipes on both end of the shut valve and still have enough cooper pipes to reconnect the new ball valve? If you cut off that much pipes then the pipe should be short. LOL

Great job don't forget to shut the water off outside blow it out and put a cover over it

You removed about 4 inches of length and replaced it with a valve that is only 2 inches long. How did you make up the distance? That is the issue I am having. I cant seem to find a video addressing that issue.

Thank god. Finally found a channel not bashing shark bite. (Which does reveal how smart your “plumber” is). These are too simple to blame the product. Good luck selling your high end filtration system if you don’t like push fittings. But go ahead and blame the product with instructions in pictures on every package. Selling by the millions daily. Yeah. Blame that product.

You cut the pipe so the pipe is shorter, how would you still be able to connect to the Sharkbite value? May be the pipe is flexible so that you can pull them together in your case but mostly are not.

Your vido is very help full and good line for plumb ing work. I appreciated to you Please give me afaver wher is abaile toos shark bite fitting

You're #1

How can I tell which end of the ball valve is connected to the incoming water source? Thanks!

He must have used a short length of new copper and put a sharkbite coupling on the other end, should have shown that.

The plumber (salesman) hates sharkbites!!!!!!!!!

They make slip valves, tee's and other fittings for when the pipe cannot be pulled back to insert a fitting.

I've seen where plumbers will remove that white plastic 'stiffener' inside the Sharkbite adapter before inserting the copper pipe.

Still an interesting video, but to make Sharkbite fittings work you have to have a lot of play or give on at least one side of the plumbing line. I need Sharkbite shutoff valves in 4 places in my my crawlspace, but I have zero give or play in the CPVC lines. There would be no way to install the valves short of hiring a professional plumber.

Where did you find the play in the second pipe?

Main water shut off line has to be shut off ?

The pipe was cut much shorter than the repair. Did it magically grow?

Very poor video. It doesn't address how to make the connection to the rigid pipe on the right. Will it be a solder connection? If so, how far away to prevent the heat of soldering from melting the plastic inside the shark bite?

how come you did not take white plasique tube in sharkbite fitting when you use copper pipe

how you cut 6 inches out and still able to connect?

Song name?

But the opening of the 2 cuts was larger....why did not you make a presentation on a rigid set up....the original pipes cuts!

Does the SharkBite bite

Deburring! deburring! deburring!!!

if you cannot show the video then stop wasting people's time.

Hi Jonah. On yours video everything goes nice and easy. My situation is worse, I have no chance to move the pipes. Everything is connected very tightly and the pipes are stiff. The old valve was installed in very complicated way. If I cut out all this weirdness, it will turn out that pipes are not in one line. Do you have same idea how to do a proper installation. I will be glad to hear a professional advice-Mike