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I searched the forums (and the rest of the Internet) pretty thoroughly and I still can't find an answer to my specific question. I had the plumber over last week to replace my PRV and while they were there I had them put on a tee with a ball valve and then a capped nipple for future irrigation provisions. The mainline in question is 1" copper.

I want to start using PVC right at the capped connection, but my problem is the copper to PVC union. I really don't want to start sweating copper pipe, so any solution that doesn't involve that is highly preferred. I don't have the expertise or the equipment to do so. I've seen other people say you can use a "no-hub" coupler between two dissimilar materials, but I can't find a whole lot of information about them. Do they also go by a different name? I've heard that it's a really bad idea to mate female PVC with male copper because of the damage to the PVC, so I'm going to stay away from that. I guess my problem really is that the plumbers left me with a male copper connection (capped, as I mentioned) instead of a female connection. Do these "no-hub" (or similar) couplers work well even if one side of the connection is threaded? I'm assuming they're meant to be used for a slip connection...but maybe not. Does anyone know? Or know of another way to make the coupling without sweating copper or calling the plumber again?

I think I'm going to head down to the local plumbing supply later this week and see what I can conjure up. If I read your post right then you're saying I go male threaded copper -> female threaded brass -> male threaded PVC. In that case I'll have to see if they make a male/copper -> female/brass adapter. Or even maybe just male/copper -> female/copper.

I'm going to consider this thread closed. Thanks guys very much for your feedback!