thebordella
New Member
Hi,
I am working on a project at home that requires me to tap a water supply for an icemaker. I do not want to use a saddle-valve. Instead I want to use a tee. I already have a tee and have assembled the line from the tee to the icemaker line (braided steel compression line). But now I actually need to install the T inline with existing water supply.
The fridge is right beside the well water supply. In the attached picture you can see the existing pipe work in the well room. It consists mostly of a blue-ish piping with short sections of a white-ish piping. I had thought this piping was CPVC which I know is used elsewhere in the house (although not blue).
I bought a cheap pipe cutter (the kind you squeeze like scissors) and practiced on a few sections of scrap 3/4 inch known CPVC. No problem. But then I tried to cut the blue piping for real, and the pipe cutter hardly made a scratch. I squeezed hard and still nothing. Now I'm stumped.
Is this blue pipe not CPVC and if not, what is it? There seem to be no visible markings on the exposed sections. Am a little stumped why I can't cut this stuff and if not, how to tap the well room for the icemaker line. Thanks for any ideas!
I am working on a project at home that requires me to tap a water supply for an icemaker. I do not want to use a saddle-valve. Instead I want to use a tee. I already have a tee and have assembled the line from the tee to the icemaker line (braided steel compression line). But now I actually need to install the T inline with existing water supply.
The fridge is right beside the well water supply. In the attached picture you can see the existing pipe work in the well room. It consists mostly of a blue-ish piping with short sections of a white-ish piping. I had thought this piping was CPVC which I know is used elsewhere in the house (although not blue).
I bought a cheap pipe cutter (the kind you squeeze like scissors) and practiced on a few sections of scrap 3/4 inch known CPVC. No problem. But then I tried to cut the blue piping for real, and the pipe cutter hardly made a scratch. I squeezed hard and still nothing. Now I'm stumped.
Is this blue pipe not CPVC and if not, what is it? There seem to be no visible markings on the exposed sections. Am a little stumped why I can't cut this stuff and if not, how to tap the well room for the icemaker line. Thanks for any ideas!