I got a new refrigerator a week ago. The ice maker is hooked up with 1/4" copper. The installer wrapped teflon around the threads on the compression fitting, but it leaked. I told him you don't use teflon on compression fittings, so he did it without and it seemed fine. A week later there is a small amount of water behind the fridge; so obviously it leaked. (I put a water detector back there, and I guess it paid off) The instructions say to use new fitting (he reused the old one) and to tighten it by hand and then one additional half turn. He really cranked it down. I cut off the old fitting and reinstalled it. I couldn't really finger tighten it at all, but tried to follow the directions and not over tighten. It leaked. I gave it another quarter turn. It seemed fine, but in 30 minutes I saw some water, so it was leaking. 1) Do the directions make sense? I have to disconnect my 1/4" copper line to my humidifier at least once a year to replace the inline filter. I have always used the old fitting and cranked it as tight as I could using 2 wrenches. It has never leaked. What is the proper procedure? Should I give it another quarter turn, or will that risk damaging it? 2) I bought a braided steel line 10 years ago but never used it. Is it going to be okay to use, or does it get old just sitting there? If I use a braided steel line, what do you do with the extra when I push the fridge back in? (not knowing that might be why I never used it) For the moment I have the water turned off.

Hi folks, My son just had a deck put in at his new, and first, home. Beautiful deck, nice job. Underneath the deck is a gas line from the house that connects to a gas grill. There is a leak at the point where a rigid pipe was added under the deck that travels several feet to the connections to the grill. Obviously, the fix is to take apart all of the pipes and connections that go to the grill and put it back together again, but there is only access because of the grade of the house (if you can call it that) at the joint that leaks. I really don't want to start pulling up the new Trex composite decking because I think my daughter-in-law would kill me, so - if I'm unable to tighten the pipe adequately to stop the leak, do you have any recommendations? Is there an effective sealant to apply? I'm not a big fan of them in the past, but are you aware of any products that might work here? Or, if I can't adequately stop the leak, should I tell them to turn off the gas at the house and buy a grill with a tank??? Thanks in advance...