justinae
New Member
Hi. My first post here. I'm replacing an old shower valve with a new Toto valve. It's threaded for adapters. The instructions say to use teflon to secure the adapter to the valve and solder the piping to the adapter.
My question is about order of operations. Do I solder the adapter to the pipe first and then thread the adapter onto the valve so I don't melt the teflon? Then I would have to solder the T on the supply after that because of the obvious turning to connect the adapter.
Is my thinking correct?
I've seen tutorials that say you can assemble the whole thing and then solder everything at once, but that doesn't make sense, but then again, I don't have experience with soldering.
As a side question (or potential option for part of the install), could I use sharkbites that are threaded on one end and take the 1/2" copper on the other? I wouldn't use the sharkbites for the spout, but seems logical that I could use it for the two supplies and shower head. However, I'd prefer to solder.
thanks,
Justin
My question is about order of operations. Do I solder the adapter to the pipe first and then thread the adapter onto the valve so I don't melt the teflon? Then I would have to solder the T on the supply after that because of the obvious turning to connect the adapter.
Is my thinking correct?
I've seen tutorials that say you can assemble the whole thing and then solder everything at once, but that doesn't make sense, but then again, I don't have experience with soldering.
As a side question (or potential option for part of the install), could I use sharkbites that are threaded on one end and take the 1/2" copper on the other? I wouldn't use the sharkbites for the spout, but seems logical that I could use it for the two supplies and shower head. However, I'd prefer to solder.
thanks,
Justin