Viega 25465 MegaPress tee Smart Connect technology Carbon steel, 2'' x 2'' x 1''

The 25465 is a 2 inch x 2 inch x 1 inch tee with press connections on both 2 inch run ends and a 1 inch female pipe thread on the branch. Viega lists it as P1 x P2 x FPT. So the run presses onto 2 inch carbon steel pipe and the branch takes a 1 inch male-threaded nipple, valve, or gauge fitting.

It's a carbon steel fitting, made for carbon steel pipe, which is what black iron schedule pipe is. Press fittings are material-specific: copper press systems use copper or bronze bodies, and this one is not that. Use it on steel pipe runs, and go to a copper press tee for copper tube.

Pick the 25465 when the branch has to accept something threaded, a gauge, a drain valve, a sensor well, or a nipple into equipment. Its 1 inch FPT branch saves you pressing a tee and then adding a press-by-thread adapter. If the branch continues as 1 inch steel pipe, a press x press x press tee is the cleaner choice and leaves no threaded joint to dope and dress.

Viega part number 25465. It's a single configuration, 2 inch press x 2 inch press x 1 inch FPT in carbon steel, so there are no finish or option choices to specify on the order.

Smart Connect is a deliberate feature in the sealing area that lets an unpressed fitting weep when the system is pressure tested. The point is that a joint you forgot to press shows itself during the test instead of after the ceiling is closed. On a 2 inch tee like the 25465 that is worth knowing, because you have two press joints on the run plus a threaded branch to check.

At 2.535 lbs the tee is not heavy on its own, but it's a 2 inch carbon steel branch point and the weight that matters is whatever hangs off the 1 inch threaded branch. Support the run per your normal steel pipe hanger spacing and pick up any valve or equipment drop separately so the threaded branch is not carrying it.