1 1/2 COPPER TEE
$9.70 – $12.98 per ea
Median $12.79
How much does 1 1/2 copper tee cost?
Contractors are currently paying $9.70 to $12.98 per ea, with a median of $12.79. That range is the middle half of actual invoiced prices over the last 12 months — the cheapest and most expensive outliers are excluded, because one mis-keyed line item shouldn't define what you think a fair price is.
If you're paying above $12.98 per ea, you're in the top quarter of what other contractors pay for the same item — worth a conversation with your supplier.
What drives the price
- Size and material. The single biggest factor, and why we price at this level of detail rather than lumping every tee together.
- Supplier. The same item can differ meaningfully in price between suppliers in the same market, which is a large part of why this range has width at all.
- Order volume. Counter pickups price differently from a scheduled bulk delivery.
- When you bought. Prices drift. This is a trailing 12-month window, so it reflects the current market rather than a historical average.
Related tee prices
| Product | Typical range | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3/4 X 1/2 CCC TEE | $1.79 – $2.18 / ea | $1.95 |
| 2" X 1" Threaded Mechanical Tee | $3.44 – $4.14 / ea | $3.44 |
| 1 CI STEAM TEE | $3.88 – $3.88 / ea | $3.88 |
| 2" NOHUB TEE | $10.71 – $11.28 / ea | $11.28 |
| 3/4 COPPER TEE | $1.92 – $2.13 / ea | $1.94 |
| 4X2 NH SANITARY TEE | $17.68 – $17.68 / ea | $17.68 |
| 2 GROOVED TEE | $6.65 – $6.96 / ea | $6.96 |
| EVERFLOW: COPPER TEE 1-1/4'' 1'' 1'' LF (BOX 55, CASE 55) | $0.81 – $6.16 / ea | $0.93 |
| 2 X 1 1/2 NH -CROSS- TAP TEE | $12.21 – $12.33 / ea | $12.33 |
| CCTE0012 1/2 COPPER TEE | $0.95 – $1.12 / ea | $1.12 |
| 3 GROOVED TEE | $10.31 – $11.05 / ea | $10.31 |
| 3" X 1" THREADED MECHANICAL TEE | $5.41 – $5.41 / ea | $5.41 |
How we know this
These figures come from real invoices processed through CostCrunch, not list prices or survey data. We normalise each line to a price per unit, exclude the top and bottom 1% as outliers, and we publish what we have for the last 12 months and say how thin it is. Where a figure rests on very few purchases, a single supplier or a single company, that is noted alongside it — those are one buyer's experience rather than a market rate — below that, an average says more about one buyer than about the market.
Check your own invoices against these prices — CostCrunch reads every line item and flags anything above market.