Garden hose to PEX adapter

[Maylar]

I'm setting up my basement laundry tub for my brew room, and I need to adapt a standard garden hose bib to 1/2" PEX pipe. I need a swivel 3/4" female GH thread on one end and a 1/2" PEX barb on the other. All the FGH adapters I can find have a hose barb, which is too big to fit the PEX pipe. I've been to HD and Lowes and even searched Amazon to no avail. Anybody have an idea where I can find one?

TIA.

 

[imasickboy]

Here is a FGH with various size hose barbs. I'm unsure of whether any of them will suit. Given that PEX is flexible, I'd be surprised if you can't force it on one of those. Lube!

Here is a male to flare, which, using a female to male GH adapter, might get you there after going from a flare thread to a pipe thread.

As far as a direct one-piece solution, I have none.

 

[Auger]

I'm setting up my basement laundry tub for my brew room, and I need to adapt a standard garden hose bib to 1/2" PEX pipe. I need a swivel 3/4" female GH thread on one end and a 1/2" PEX barb on the other. All the FGH adapters I can find have a hose barb, which is too big to fit the PEX pipe. I've been to HD and Lowes and even searched Amazon to no avail. Anybody have an idea where I can find one?

TIA.

Home depot has this:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBit...rb-x-Female-Swivel-Adapter-UC530LFA/202270591

 

[z-bob]

Home depot has this:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBit...rb-x-Female-Swivel-Adapter-UC530LFA/202270591

Careful, that's 3/4" pipe threads, not hose threads.

I think OP is going to need to T into the supply line going to the faucet, and probably add a shutoff valve. There are Sharkbite fittings for that.

I just thought of something, 1/2" unions (don't remember which ones, CPVC?) have 3/4" hose threads.

 

[Maylar]

Here is a FGH with various size hose barbs. I'm unsure of whether any of them will suit. Given that PEX is flexible, I'd be surprised if you can't force it on one of those. Lube!

Here is a male to flare, which, using a female to male GH adapter, might get you there after going from a flare thread to a pipe thread.

As far as a direct one-piece solution, I have none.

Yeah, Sharkbite lists one in their "catalog" but nobody stocks them.

The 1/2" hose barb is significantly bigger than the PEX barb, and simply won't push into a PEX pipe. The pipe is flexible in length but not in ID. I may have to go from FGHT to 1/2 NPT and then adapt to PEX, though the NPT adapters I've found don't swivel and that would be cumbersome.

<Sigh> Maybe drilling out the PEX a tad to make it fit the barb is a solution. I really need to get the sink in order, cider season is almost here.

 

[Auger]

Careful, that's 3/4" pipe threads, not hose threads.

I think OP is going to need to T into the supply line going to the faucet, and probably add a shutoff valve. There are Sharkbite fittings for that.

I just thought of something, 1/2" unions (don't remember which ones, CPVC?) have 3/4" hose threads.

Whoops good call, I saw the swivel hose end and assumed. Maybe do one of those to a brass MPT x FGH

 

[EcuPirate07]

Have you tried pulumbing supply companies that deal directly to plumbers? Most are open to the public, I worked for one called Ferguson when I first got out of college. They are probably your best local option. Also another place called HAJOCA but I don't know how far their reach is. But Ferguson is all over the nation, just Google Ferguson Plumbing supplies.

 

[Weezy]

I'd go the new T route, upstream of the cold line, and steal yourself a whole new line. I'm assuming it's all exposed under the tub, thereby ir shouldn't be too hard.

 

[z-bob]

Are there any accessible 1/2" copper cold water lines? Use one of these to tap into it:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBit...x-Copper-Tube-Size-Adapter-U4482LFA/202721849

I normally prefer solder joints, but this one just works so well it's worth $11 for one fitting. Put something like a quarter-turn 3/8" toilet stop on the outlet.

 

[Maylar]

I'm assembling a Rube Goldberg sort of thing. The sink has hot and cold hard plumbed hose bib faucets. The copper lines are fastened to the concrete wall behind it.

I want to add a regular laundry sink faucet so I can get "warm" water from it, and feed the new faucet from the existing ones.

The idea is to come off the hose bibs to PEX fittings and with a couple 90 degree elbows feed some pipes up to the new faucet. If it turns out too hokey I'll probably replace the old porcelain steel sink with a plastic free standing job and plumb it properly with shutoffs, but that'd be a lot of work. I wanna give this idea a try first.

 

[acidrain]

Pex x MPT + FPT x FGH