Gray quest

In 1985 I reminded a rental. Quest was the rage. I used cpvc to do all the plumbing, except when I transitioned to line goings to sinks. There I used quest. Like today's pexs and shark bite it was easy.

Well quest went out of business, class action, defective fittings.

31 years later, my fitting cracked. Forgot I had used quest. Goings to replace all remaing quest.

Dang smart phone changed rebuilt to reminded. I hate it guessing what word I want.

I hate that I can't spell, and it needs to guess for me so often...

Seems plumbing 'standards' change every 20 years, which matches nicely with how often the old design seems to fail.

Thus, when a leak appears, you get to change everything, because the old design is obsolete now.

Grrrr.

Paul

Dang you autocorrect.

I only use sweated copper in all our rentals. Even in the fair city of Pontiac, where copper plumbing is often targeted by metal thieves. Most new construction in Pontiac these days is done with PEX, since the damage the scrappers do to a structure usually costs far more than the pipe they steal.

I also don't use "Sharkbite" fittings. At around ten bucks a fitting, they get expensive real quick.

In the last year we changed all of our house plumbing from 24 year old gray quest to PEX, never had but one leak in the 24 years until we started messing with it during renovations last fall and then several more fittings blew out.

Here's where I got some to fix my in law's house
Mobile home depot

I'm not a smart smelled either, lost toom many brain cells to CRS.

Mark,
Pex is expensive like shark-bite. Both can be prone to leaks too. Good luck getting them apart 10 years later if you have hard water. Copper is a PBIA when you have to make a repair caused by frozen pipes. Can't use compression on over sized copper. Copper is expensive. Old copper has lead solder. Copper expands when frozen and Good lock making a repair in a crawl space. Hate the fire hazard, not to mention the risk of getting burned with hot solder falling on you. Difficult getting all the water out of the line, so the water turns to steam and blows your solder out of the repair.

Because of the lead issue alone, I've removed all my old copper in rentals. Never use brass in drain pipes either. Lucky to last 20 years before they are totally gone.

CPVC is the only think I'll use, cheap, easy to make repairs. Cut and glue. I've even changed over to all plastic faucets, delta clones.

I will use a delta scald guard shower faucet.

I did save some old quest fittings.

Next time this rental is empty, All the quest, only 6 fittings will go. Glue in cpcv 90 degree shutoffs. Then someday, I'll have to replace some of the copper in my house, thank God for a basement. That will be what I call a round to it job. Next leak will be when I get around to it.
geo.

I brought a new house in 1982 I always had fittings to break :evil:
When the class action lawsuits came out I signed up they sent a inspector out to check it. He said yes you got a house full of it BUT you will never see a dime from the class action deal Sadly to say he was right.

In 2012 I got around to redoing the plumbing in the hole house. I even had to change out all the faucets shower heads etc because they were dedicated to quest. That house is all pex now.

Like this?

I really must be lucky.
I live in a home built in 1990 with 100% polybutylene.
What you guys are calling Quest; I think it is really made by Qest
Never had one problem of any kind including leaks.

I think polybutylene gets a bad rap from poor installation.

The fittings are still available. I have a mobile home on my place that all the plumbing is done with quest. I remember one day when we were living in the trailer hearing a hissing noise under the floor. Turned out the line had ruptured like an old garden hose. Ever since then I don't what any quest, pex or any other pretend plumbing they come up with in my house. Where I'm at the water isn't acidic so I use only copper.

I think that John in LA. my 200 year old house was replumbed in 1988 with polybutylene. I am pretty sure that the problem was the crimped fittings. I have replaced almost all of the fittings with Quest compression fittings eliminating the crimped fittings.

I never has a problem with the gray pipe only with the plastic fittings..
I repaired it numerous times and used brass fittings. The real pain was the pipes were ran thru the floor joist when one broke were it turned up and went into a wall it left me very little room to work in.

I would bet yours has brass fittings... Are at least I hope so...

Done the trailer I live in 30 years ago with it. Only leaks have had is that nut pictured that split like that at hot water on hot side twice. Been froze upteen times. Would use if could get the brass crimp fittings and rings. Have crimp tool.

Neighbor compression fittings leaked. Mobile
home parts place had newer compression
fittings to make repair.