00:00So a heads up before you crack anything open, half of my own plumbing disasters started with
00:04one cheap fitting that was the wrong size or the wrong thread. I dug through a few thousand
00:09listings to find the 5 fittings actually worth keeping in your toolbox right now,
00:13and these are the ones that keep selling out. Best deals for top 5 pipe fittings for home
00:18plumbing repairs are coming up. First up is the equal reducing hose barbed
00:23tee in brass, and this thing is an absolute workhorse. You get sizes from 4mm all the way
00:29up to 19mm, and it splits one line into 3 separate branches, so you can run a hose bib off
00:34a garden
00:34line or tee off a washing machine supply without cutting everything apart. It's solid brass,
00:40which means it handles water, gas, and oil, and at $2.78 with almost 4,800 units sold in a
00:464.9
00:47rating, this is the best value on the whole list for any tee you need. Number 2 is the brass
00:52hex
00:53pike nipple, and honestly this is the piece you'll use the most. These are pure brass,
00:58they come in every size from 1⁄8 inch to 1 inch with standard BSP threads, and the hex body means
01:03you can crank it down with a wrench when you absolutely have to. It doubles as a quick
01:08coupler or an adapter when you need to bridge two mismatched fittings. 51 cents each under a buck
01:13for most of them and it's rated 4.8 out of 5 across nearly 4,700 sales. Third is the
01:20brass hex bushing
01:21reducer, and this one saves you from buying a whole new length of pipe. It converts a male thread into
01:27a
01:27female thread while stepping the size down, which is exactly what you need when you're dropping from
01:31a 3⁄4 inch line into a half an inch appliance or radiator connection. The hex shape gives you
01:37purchase with a spanner, and the brass body shrugs off water, oil, gas, and fuel. It's 97 cents,
01:444.8 rating, and more than 3,400 people have already snapped one up. Fourth is the male-to-female
01:50brass
01:51pipe connector, which sounds boring and I know it, but this is the unsung hero of any repair kit.
01:56It joins a male-threaded line to a female-threaded line and joins two pipes together in a single
02:01fitting, so you don't need a separate coupler and adapter stacked on top of each other.
02:06Sizes from 1⁄8 inch up to half an inch cover most of the small bore work you'll ever do under
02:10a sink. 95 cents, rated 4.8, and over 2,700 sold, grab two. Last one, and this is the
02:19splurge,
02:20is the small brass ball valve with female-to-male threads. If you only buy one fitting from this list,
02:25make it this, because being able to shut water off right at the fixture instead of running around to
02:30the main valve is worth every penny. It covers 1⁄8 to half an inch, it's quarter turn, and brass
02:36means it'll last decades. It's $3.91, the highest-rated item here at 4.9, with 1,660 sold and
02:45climbing. All five links are in the description, and I'd grab the nipple and the bushing first since
02:50they're the cheapest and you'll use them constantly. If this saved you a trip to the hardware store,
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