Saddle Valve Alternative

My advice is to not use saddle valves.

Saddle valve alternative. When installing an ice maker or whole house humidifier tap off of an existing water line with a proper tee fitting and have a proper shutoff valve installed. Since the valve is at the highest water point i seem to get suction around the rubber gasket and air gets into the pipe and i have to flush that zone every day or 2. Most of them don t leak but they have a much higher chance of leaking than a properly installed water valve. Read where the saddle valves are not the greatest to use but what s the alternative.

I wll be buying a new fridge with ice maker fresh water dispenser and i see installaton kits but they are all with saddle valves. Hi i ve got a water filter fitted under my kitchen sink. Alternative to saddle valve post by a. Spruce tue sep 24 2019 5 23 pm if replacing the leaking valve doesn t do the trick or you simply don t want a saddle valve then you will have to put a tee fitting into the line so that you can plumb up a normal angle stop to the correct fitting size of your humidifier supply line.

I initially had a saddle valve to connect a water line to my refrigerator water dispenser ice maker but removed it because the flow of water was. Discussion in plumbing and central heating started by phykell 10 jan 2010. Is there an alternative to the saddle valve. No cutting of pipes is required no soldering no.

The self piercing saddle valve is located there as well to draw water to the flow through screen. Saddle valves don t have one. The house i. The best alternative is to solder copper.

Saddle valve alternative 15mm to 1 4 inch. Refrigerator water connection saddle valve alternative since we moved into our new house in november my wife has been nagging me to connect a water line to our extra refrigerator. I think it s compression fit to a 1 2 inch copper pipe. I get about a half gallon a minute out of the 1 4 inch od copper tube coming from a saddle valve connected to a 3 4 inch copper water line so i thought i d replace the saddle valve with this.

Hi everyone my humidifier requires 3 gpm. There s a slight leak from a saddle valve which mates the filter s quarter inch 6. Saddle valves are installed by tightening a metal clamp onto a water pipe then tightening down a needle valve until it pierces the water pipe.