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Okay, you are guilty you try to be a plumber this past weekend. You went ahead and put on a new toilet bowl cock and maybe it was a bathroom sink, faucet or kitchen faucet. You went to turn on the water at the supply cut off valve and what happened? You had a leak right were the supply tube goes into the valve it is very, very common.

Here is what usually goes wrong, if you happened to use the old fashioned chrome metal soft copper supplied tube, you can get into a lot of trouble and here is why. Those things are very finicky, if you don't have the metal bent just right when it goes into the valve it will go into the slide angle and when you try to tight the knot there is this very, very small crack where the water leaks from.

What I suggest that you use especially if you got a cabin that will hide the supply tube why not go with one of the plastic supply tubes. These are very flexible; they tend to self seat themselves and align themselves perfectly in the supply valve. And almost leak 3 performances each and every time.

Remember, if you want to go ahead and get leak free fittings at your faucets or at the toilet supply valves. Make sure that the supplied tube fits straight into the valve. Do that and your going to have a great job.

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Okay, you are guilty you try to be a plumber this past weekend. You went ahead and put on a new toilet bowl cock and maybe it was a bathroom sink, faucet or kitchen faucet. You went to turn on the water at the supply cut off valve and what... click to read more