I have a sill c o c k to connect to different pipes and am not sure what connectors to use. It's a new outside faucet on the grade concrete of the house. We will be drilling a hole through the concrete and connecting 1/2" polypipe from the pressure tank to PEX and then to a sill c o c k outside. The sill c o c k will be exposed to freezing temperatures in winter. The sill c o c k I have has a 1/2" female thread. What connector needs to be used to connect the PP to PEX? What connector needs to be used to connect the PEX to the sill c o c k? I assume I cannot use a shark bite as it will be inside the concrete as sill c o c k would be attached to concrete on outside wall?

Hope you guys don't mind me posting this here. You've helped me on loads of questions I've had in this and other forums on this site. You're all much more level headed and learned than me. Maybe you can help with this? So we had a master bath redone by a contractor who did the same for a good friend's bathroom recently. He's done other smaller work for them over the years also (he's a plumber and has a carpenter and electrician that he called in for other work). I'm doing a running total of costs and we'll come in around $44K for this bath. We've debated for years who to hire to do the work, we've debated what we've wanted it to look like. We finally moved ahead with this guy. And this is the first time we've had any substantial work done by others in the house - I'm pretty handy and have a hard time delegating or relying on others in general (I am self employed with no employees). Anyway, over the weeks with this project we've had issues with the contractor and his subs, tile supplier, counter supplier, medicine cabinet manufacturer. I don't think we (my wife and I) are overly critical, but in trying to get things corrected / resolved, we likely have a shorter fuse... and the crux of the question - feel insulted / offended / frustrated with the people that screwed up and wonder how other deal with things. For example, we wanted 2 medicine cabinets installed right next to each other. That needs / requires a 'ganging kit' - a bracket that hold the 2 cabinets together. The contractor called me saying we're putting in the cabinets - how are they going in (as much as he wanted everything we were supplying to be on site, he didn't look over everything - he installed his own round shower drain when we had bought a square drain. I pointed that out before it was tiled in place). I told them they would be joined together with a ganging kit. he calls back saying he doesn't see the ganging kit. I called the plumbing supply house - did we order the ganging kit? Our contact was out of the office. I call the manufacturer (a local place that also does the shower door / glass. A woman in customer service says 'the ganging kit is something that has to be ordered and ships in a seperate box'. I call the contractaor saying to look for a seperate box. But did I order it? Call the plumbing supply and no one can help us right then. I look on manufacturer website and it says in list of features that ganging kit is included!? Call the manufacturer again and someone else says 'it's included if you request it'. WTF!? Why not say 'included on request'? Wind up getting a 3rd person at manufacturer who could find our order, confirm the ganging clip was included and should be in the box (not seperate). I tell the contractor to look harder and he finds the part in the box. 1 hour of my time wasted. Me being me (and the point of the post)... I wound up ranting to the president of the manufacturer about inept customer service person (sold seperate and in a seperate box), and the website (included.. not 'included on request'). The plumbing supply contact (an aquantance we've known for years in town) called saying 'you had a problem?'. I explain the situation and he winds up basically saying 'you got the part? You're all set?' I say yes. So he suggests moving forward. >>>> Do you just move forward when being inconvenienced with inept companies / people? I feel I should be compensated / apologized / they should take my advice to improve their website info and spend even more time ranting to them / make a point to warn others. A similar situation - the contractor installed a ventilation fan. Connected it to power and it was running while they did sheet rock / spackle / sanding. So it was loaded with dust. Me being me, I took it down and complete cleaned it... and in the process, saw that there was a piece of tape holding the flapper leading to the vent pipe was still in place from the factory. Am I wrong to thing that I'm paying a fair amount for them ... and it should be done right the first time? If you can't get it right the first time / I have to catch things, then I should be getting a break on the price? I'm not trying to find mistakes just to get a price break. If I wanted things to get screwed up the first time, I could do it myself. So again, to summerize if you've read this far - do you point out that something went wrong / they gave you wrong info then you (eventually) get the part / correct info and you move on? Or do you feel a need to try to get them to improve their process / compensate you for the troubles? Yes, the way I do it takes more time and causes me more stress, but I'm paying $x for something. Am I wrong to think I'm not paying $x for something incomplete or takes 2 tries to get it right or something I have to police to point out errors. Sorry, one other thing along the same lines - dealing with situations when the cure is worse than the disease. We recently had garage doors installed. 2 panels were rubbing and they adjusted them. Some paint was rubbed off from the misalignment (on the surfaces you don't see when the door is down). The kid they sent to do the realignment took a can of white spray paint to cover that paint. Rather than mask the black hardware, he sprayed and the NEW black parts that were screwed onto the doors (fake hinges in a barn door look) had some white overspray. He takes a sharpie and covers up the dots. I ranted to the owner about this and he says he can replace the fake hinges. In my view, unscrewing them , then rescrewing new ones, they likely won't hold as tight and over time will come loose and or will scratch the doors in the removal / install - so I have them leave the white speckled hardware as is, curse the installed and warn others. Thoughts? Thanks!