I recently had a plumber out to snake my storm sewer lines as they are backing up. Unfortunately, he determined that this was because the main line they all run into is completely crushed - most likely during the recent install of my new driveway :wall: Anyway, during the snaking process, the plumber complained about how tightly the downspouts were run into the 4" S&D adapters and said on a couple he almost had to cut the pipe just to get the joint apart to run the snake. He recommended I put what he called slip joints on each connection. The way he described it, it sounded like a coupling without a stop in the middle so that when you need access to the pipe, you just slide it up or down and then you can swing the two (now disconnected) sections of pipe apart to get access. Try as I might, I have not been able to find any such thing at the big box home stores near me or on Google. All I keep coming up with are your regular old couplings. I suppose I could use these and grind out the stop. But this makes me wonder if what the plumber suggested is really the correct way to handle this. Surely there is a "standard" way of making the downspout - pipe connection easy to take apart and get access. Maybe a Wye + Cleanout on each downspout pipe? Maybe having the downspout barely sit in the pipe adapter so you can just bend it and yank it out when necessary? What would you all suggest?

Need some help... I have mostly 5/8" pex running through my house and I need to move/replace a busted freezeproof spigot. All the freeze proof spigots I have found use 1/2", and locally, 1/2" pex/couplings/tools/et al are widely available. I haven't been able to find any 5/8" pex supplies yet (at least not at Ace or Home Depot). I found from PexUniverse they have a reducing coupler from 5/8 to 1/2 inch, but they are out of stock for at least a month. So.... my question is, what are my options? The size is not too far off... would I be able to use 1/2" pex on a 5/8" adapter? Can I use 5/8" pex on a 1/2" adapter? Any other ideas?