FAILED Plumbing Inspection! How Badly Did We Mess Up?

we failed three ways in which we failed we're martin and julie and we're seeking a life with more freedom and independence as we build our off-grid homestead from scratch here in north idaho in our previous video our friend went mud bogging and we started wiring our home using grayson's really cool cone spinners got grayson's cone system up here no cones were harmed in the making of this photo today we get ready for our plumbing inspection but unfortunately things don't always go as planned guess who's coming today guys the plumbing inspector we're super excited for this day there's a little bit of you hear my voice yeah i think i'm getting sick guys there's a few little wow there's a few things that we need to do before the inspector comes so we need to re-pressure can you hear that we need to re-pressurize our system to make sure we don't have any leaks and we also have to add supports every four feet let's get started on that i'm gonna trade out staples for screws screws we need the drills and we need some phillips bits and ladders up here i don't think so i think that's probably good good job thank you it's not easy no my fingers are freezing i'm gonna put my hand in my pockets every now and then yeah hot hands i think the next thing we need to do is put the nailer plates on anywhere where they might be needed we're both on the ladder that's not a good idea i think it has a max 300 pounds i'm pretty sure between the two of us were more than 300 pounds we are huh yeah so these are to protect the pipe but when you're doing drywall or hanging pictures or something you can't uh put a screw through this and so you can't accidentally put a screw in your pipe we're gonna pressurize it again and hopefully we didn't poke any holes in anywhere or something and it holds like it did before when we tested it and we'll just leave it pressurized until the inspector gets here sometime today and if it's hold until he gets here it'll definitely be good 60. leave it there for a while hopefully it's kind of hold still just like it did in the last test come on baby five five no obvious big leaks on either system they're both holding here you know just like for a couple of minutes we're gonna go down into the garage and start supporting all of the plumbing up to the floor every four feet [Music] something about the way you bounce makes me want to keep you around my mind my my mind something that the way you sound shakes me [Music] i think that marty is punishing me because this is the one of the worst jobs ever it is difficult working above your head like that little tiny screws yes little tight screws and these things don't cooperate very true it is definitely a pain what did i do to make you mad well we can't say we've been putting those every four feet or so the pressure test it's holding the pressure really great and now we're just waiting for the inspector wait he's here in the wall 16 is that right 60 that's what i thought i remembered uh yeah they want 20 pounds over working pressure so okay 50 minimum but the pex manufacturer wants 20 pounds over working pressure [Music] okay is that supposed to be not longer than 30 yeah no longer 300 18. the inspector grady is actually a super cool guy very helpful and uh yeah it just wants to wants it to be the best that it can be even though he is a really nice guy he has a job to do and we failed three ways in which we failed we gotta run to home depot grab some supplies and i will show you every way in which we failed but right now what i want you to do is write down in the comments below what you think we failed on and then as we go through the video we'll reveal to you all three ways we failed [Music] [Music] there's [Music] that is for the deer shake good job great job look at them they're just enjoying all that straw are you thinking you need to disturb them they look way too comfortable get them i am [Applause] [Music] just gonna get it cleaned up the first reason we failed is kind of silly but important nonetheless we forgot to put the nail plates on here we got them in all the other ones but we forgot right here they're supposed to be like anything what one and a quarter you said i think one and a quarter inches you need you need one and a quarter inches of wood before your pipe proof we fixed it the second reason we failed has to do with the shower vent with what's right below here so we'll cut it here then we'll go down into the garage and i'll show you exactly what's wrong hey marty the pressure we didn't check the pressure oh well it's out now [Music] all right this is the p-trap for the shower this is the vent for the shower and this is a sanitary tee not allowed to use a sanitary tee in this application so we need to change this out to a y with a 45 or a y45 combo he also recommended but did not require that we use a glued together p-trap for the shower or for the tub and so that's also what we're going to change out too close to the water lines but we didn't hit them all right let's see if we can make it all fit together now dry fit number one oh yeah that's gonna work that'll work it took a little while but check it out got the y with a 45 in here and then got the glued in p-trap all plumbed in the tub is all plumbed in we came up with that 45 another 45 vertical two inch here i had to put some couplings in here over to the three inch and up number two is done proof right here you got your mama's sunshine you got your daddy's reign you're like a piece of heaven in a hurricane and it's bubbling over like sweet champagne you got your mama's sunshine you got your daddy's ring all day long right or wrong you question everything why the grass is green can i stay up late and why do bluebirds sing sometimes you cry your we can't hide them any longer guys some of you have been seeing them we've got garage doors we actually ordered these from home depot and we found out that they come with free installation so we don't have a video of us installing them because well they just came one day like half a day both garage doors installed with openers pretty cool here's the one garage door opener the other one's right over there so it's got this track it runs down and opens the doors and yes it will run off of our off-grid power system no problem at all our third fail has to do with this fancy pipe right here [Music] good job that's awesome oh beautiful then what happened it's painful got my wrist how'd that get on there i don't know i think it was from the battery invasion of the chickens you work so hard and then you find holes and everything [Music] i don't think i'm hired for the job dude it was your first one ever in your entire lifetime a mess okay we didn't get it on camera but i knocked the primer off as i was getting it out and almost all of it landed on our garage floor [Music] i think i need to put my name on that one because marty won't want to claim it it's good it's perfect then perfect what do plumbers have when they fall asleep i don't know what pipe dreams [Music] the third thing that caused us to fail our inspection was that we didn't put in the piping for our temperature and pressure relief for our water heater our inspector wants us to send him all of these pictures as proof that we fixed all of our failures that way he can pass us in the next video we are going to be talking about our water quality from the well that we drilled but in the meantime i picked out this video right here for you go ahead click right here i will see you over there in just a second you

Channel: Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living

Views: 112,376

Rating: 4.9441667 out of 5

Keywords: Off Grid Cabin Build, off grid home build, building an off grid cabin, building an off the grid solar cabin, Couple Builds Dream Home, building our off grid home in the mountains, Lumnah Acres, plumbing inspection fails, plumbing inspection, plumbing inspection pressure test, plumbing inspection water test, plumbing inspection videos, rough plumbing inspection

Id: yqcmTSUFyZM

Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 03 2021