Pex plumbing rules.

i'm just sayin'. seriously -- it's easy. pex refers to the plastic tubing that some people now use instead of copper pipes. it's nice 'cause they're flexible (but still sometimes a pain to maneuvre in all honesty) and you don't need any fire to join them. so maybe safer. and then there are the fittings. there's the pex-for-dummies sharkbite fittings that we started using at the beginning. they're expensive (but waaaay cheaper than a plumber!) and simple. you just have to push them onto the pipe and they lock into place. we're since graduated to a compression system. you need a $40 tool and you squeeze a metal ring around the joint between the pipe and the fitting. we graduate 'cause a/ it's 99 cents a fitting instead of $4-$7 and b/ shark bite didn't have as large a variety of fittings as the compression system did. anyway -- we're happy with how things worked out and we'd definitely do more plumbing ourselves in the future.

ps -- it's not actually leaking .. it just got a bit wet when we emptied the pipes