PSA for anyone running new plumbing in their home: These nail-in joist hangers for PEX water pipe are for crap. My house is less than 10 years old and I've already had 3 of them break, and some near junctions which is extra bad.
Today I installed the type you see on the right throughout the main run through the house, whether there was a broken nail-in hanger there or not. Still plastic, but the force is much better distributed. Plus, it gave me an opportunity to use the impact driver!
@voltronic Hmm. Never had a problem with the former kind. Interesting that they broke. The ones our company used were very hard to break. It took a lot of twisting to break them. Those others are just as good, and they will allow the PEX to move a little in them as they expand or contract from water temp.
@Reuven
Those sound really well made. The ones in my house are very stiff plastic; they have almost no compliance.
@voltronic Doesn’t sound like what we used. But, anyway, the ones you found will work very well.
@voltronic Possibly, the ones we used could not be broken with a hammer. They weren’t rigid, I used to take a pair of pliers and twist them off the pipe if I needed to move pipe temporarily, then put them back. Took a lot to break them. IIRC, Sioux Chief manufactured the ones we used.