How To Install A Drain Pump To Add A Bathroom or Laundry Room

hey guys Jeff here and I'm at the church flip working on my Plumbing for the laundry now it's a little intricate but what I did notice is now that I'm looking at the Santa flow system and trying to tie my Plumbing together I've made a mistake I've actually put a 45 degree angle here bringing my waistline out which is difficult because I've got to add a sweeping 90 on a waistline because that's code for us we can't just do a nice tight Corner going across to the pump so by the time I got that done I am wow seven inches off the wall what I should have done is instead of putting this I should have put this on right here at this joint so my pipe would be nice close to the wall so what I'm going to show you today is how to make the adjustment when you put the wrong fitting how to remove it and how to install the new fitting on the same little piece of pipe because under here I've only got a not even half an inch of space so I don't want to take the chance of trying to cut this off I've got to peel this off the existing pipe so I'm going to show you how to do that all right first step grab yourself a sawzall with a metal blade we're going to want to start cutting where the fitting Ridge is exposed because remember the pipe is right inside all the way up to this Edge so we're going to try to just cut this loose and have a look there's the pipe this is the fitting so what we want to do is remove the fitting from the pipe without damaging the pipe here's a little bit of surgery okay what I want to do is cut into the pipe there cut the fitting but not the pipe that section and then another section okay that's good pretty sure I got that all the way through yeah that looks good because I'm going to try to use the Chisel and force break that piece away it's not that difficult okay remember when we were putting this on we're using an ABS solvent now solvent bonds two things together but it doesn't melt them into one there's still two units so you have the ability to work your way around here now I might have to cut a couple more pieces [Music] coming loose see that off the pipe break another piece off there we go take our chisel and we're just going to pry it all off all right so now what we've done is we've exposed a good full inch of pipe which means now I've got options I can sand back a little bit of this uh solvent Ridge that's here and I can attach my fitting right there if you try cutting right where that Ridge is and your saw is on a bad angle you might cut so far into this that now you're stuck you have no more pipe left to connect to that means you're opening the wall and increasing the scope of work so when you're ever in a tight spot like that remember a couple of quick relief Cuts get a chisel my hammer and peel the fitting off the existing pipe for now let's just get on with trading on trim kits there washer and dryer box is done it's nice to do the easy stuff first and get a little Headway right motivates you if you start with the hardest thing you're going to get the motivated quick now we're going to put on our dryer plug this is actually kind of easy because it tells you right on the box what's what this is the black and the red this is going to be the white and that is going to be the ground so we're going to put the ground wire on first you see how this is working you got three connections here over here this is brass brass this is the ground so we're going to connect the ground wire first and then black white and red nice and easy all we got to do to do this and don't worry the power is off okay I have a habit of never connecting anything to the panel until after I'm all of my connections are made then you just mitigate having a problem before we get started I'm going to pull out my wire strippers and I am going to clean off one inch there we go for each of these other three colors let's get the prep work started before we have too much going on around here okay there's the neutral my ground first thing we're going to do is we're going to back out these screws until they're flush on the housing that makes room for the wire you'll go nuts trying to push a thick wire into that tiny hole give yourself some space make this easy for yourself all right here we go now we're going to get the ground wire on here and I know it's probably easier to have a little more wire when you're working like this but there's two sides of this coin having more wire also means that you've got to push all the extra wires in this box and this thick gauge is hard enough to work with without having to complicate it by doing that [Music] so we're going to make sure that all of our wires are nicely tacked in now we're gonna use some decent Force here okay this is not a time to have a loose connection foreign you want to bend the wire right here coming off the top of this okay to force that into the box okay how about you've got that S curve going on right nice now we're going to also remove all these screws because I don't like to work with so much wire that I can make the adjustments I would rather add all my screws afterwards maybe these two we can do this way okay here we go let's see let me slide those in foreign [Music] one two three and four now before I go any further I want to just move some drywall or mud out of the way to identify the location of the screw for the mounting here it is we're going to be using 20 amp plugs because I have a 20 amp wire it's a little Overkill but because I'm putting the washer and the pump on the same circuit I wanted to make sure we had lots of constant available power and you can use 15 amp plugs on 20 amp circuit but if we're going to do it you must just go to the 20. if a machine needs less power than what's available it's still going to work just fine it's okay to up your plugs if you have a 20 amp supply all right let's go the ground wire is connected Inside the Box we've got lots of extra wire just got to change out my bit on my drill now this is final location I got way too much wire here I'm just going to cut off my excess okay I'm going to strip the black and the white if you get a pair of these you just look at the corresponding number this is a 12 2 wire so I'm the third hole in one two and three and I want to get about an inch and a quarter I pinch it it'll twist and it pulls off that cuts the the sheathing without damaging the copper okay I want to get one of those now finish the tip and put a curl on it corresponding other side same for the ground screw so now throw on the screw tighten it in good I was just checking to see if these 20 amps have the quick Connection in the back I'm glad they don't I don't like that look [Music] okay now if you haven't seen one of these videos before the wiring connections are simple the neutral or the white wire is almost always on the same side as the ground if you want to know a way to know the difference like what's the difference between that side and that side these are brass those aren't brass and black go together okay that's all you need to know about this game and there's four screws so a certain come in and out and that Brass Tab connects the circuit from one screw to the next and that is pretty much the Dynamics of residential wiring if you understand that you're pretty much ready to wire just about anything okay always take your wire down with your thumb and create an s all right that way it can collapse straight into the box and not beside the screws and then you set your screw into those little holes that the Box gave you all right and then you want to collapse come on baby into the hole do an inspection make sure you don't have any wires coming through the sides and then you can just tighten up the screw and we just take our cover plate and stick it on and then before you screw it on double check make sure that you can't see holes or damage and if you do go buy one of these they're larger they're wider and taller and they can cover a multitude of mistakes these are 50 cents these are two bucks but if you screw up that's the best two bucks you'll ever spend because that means you don't have to pull out the mud and then do the sanding and the patching and the priming and paint the whole wall again if you're in a gym consider using that cover plate I keep them on me at all times just in case I make a mistake and I wasn't aware as things do tend to happen this is actually one of these is power to the box and the other one is power leaving this box going to that other plug because the electrical code says that I can have more than one plug on a circuit in a laundry room I don't have to have just one plug for the laundry machine it can be on a circuit I can have three or four more plugs in the laundry room together but only one circuit per laundry room so in this case we're going to tighten up just a little bit okay we're gonna go with about six inches off the Box all right and here's why it's a lot more wires to jam in here so I want to identify which one this is the ground that's coming off this is my power I want to take this one to the receptacle and this one just wanted to go to the box little information about grounding when your wire comes in the Box you want to have it come out right across the screw behind the screw and you want it to come right to the plug that's Overkill and that's safe this screw or this metal bracket actually connects the ground see that here to the screw to the box so even if this wire doesn't go to the receptacle it's grounded adding it to the receptacle is extra but making sure that the ground continues means that this wire goes behind that screw okay it wouldn't hurt to have that all the way up and around that guarantees that the wire that goes to the other box is also part of the grounding system when you're getting your electrical inspected inspectors are more interested with whether or not you've grounded everything in just about anything else it's kind of a crucial element for fire safety so now we've got this ready to go we're gonna do the same thing we're going to strip them we're going to curl them and now I'm showing this video because a lot of people want to know there are a lot of jurisdictions where homeowners are allowed to do their own electrical still get your permit and before you go ahead with something like this make sure you're in one of those jurisdictions I know that most of Europe Australia I don't think Florida allows you to do your own electrical but there are lots of states and provinces in Canada for instance that do so just make sure you qualify give them a call ask to open up a homeowner's permit what you need to know is how many devices you're putting in and that's electrical jargon for how many boxes so every slight switch every receptacle and they'll charge you a certain amount of money per device the rough end for my laundry room was 68 bucks they opened the permit on the spot when your phone in all right I'm still old school I like to pinch my wire shut on the inside of that screw if I can get a hold of it okay here we go ah it's almost too easy isn't it okay so again down and then up Auto wires create that s and then push it back Tucker in and put a cap on make sure you're going Square to the wall so you don't cross thread the screw throw sorry It's usually the box that also gets threaded up and it's hard to receive a screw again so you can't just change out your plug all right nice wow I got some unique damage here so I'm going to opt to go to the bigger plate just to make sure that it's pretty and I'm old and I'm already on the ground and I don't want to have to get up just to get back here again here we go all right this is the larger plate doesn't look abnormal all right now on to the waist the vent and the drain all right so now we're just going to go through the plumbing here it looks really confusing right out of the gate but what we need to know is just we'll just follow the water right so we got water coming out over here for the shower is going to come into the Santa flow unit and I've got discharge water coming out of here for the laundry it's also going to go into the Santa flow unit this one we're actually going to tee off and connect to the vent okay this one has a fresh air vent system right here and it's going to come up and over and then I have the discharge it starts like this we're going to bring it up put on our ball valve that way it's all under pressure and then we're going to start the slope over to connect over there by gravity nice and simple so those are the connections that I've got to make we're going to weigh across connecting with the water my trick really is with this connection for the discharge I want to try to make the discharge come up right here in between these two boom and that keeps all my electrical open and it should keep things nice and tidy so I think I'm going to start with getting the first disc discharge pieces done and the way this goes together guys it's really simple they give you lots of these rubber gaskets so you can go from one and a half to two or two to two or whatever you can seal up the ends with these okay because right now this unit comes with just checked valves it's just a little bit of a rubber flap sitting there water goes in and it won't push back out it seals itself off it's so straightforward it's not even funny it comes with directions follow the pictures and you can't go around nice and easy now this one here here's an actual check valve the water only goes One Direction the gate opens when you put something in there and it closes behind itself on pressure and it goes right into the unit right at the very beginning so we can't go wrong crazy thing that I had to deal with today because of our supply chain issues I couldn't get a PVC Mario boy there we go so this is a ball valve basically can shut it off in the event that you have to do service on this unit if you want to have this as close to the bottom as you can get just so you don't have a whole lot of water in the pipe so that you can disengage here lift this up and won't make too much of a mess for now we'll leave it open it's not going to matter which way this goes in so we'll install the handle so it goes from Flat to open hopefully I can get it right about near I'm going to start with the shower and more work our way of going to the right I have to cut this pipe back now I'm going to go counterclockwise on this same thing there we go I'm going to use a sweeping 90 to get this close to the ground you know I am going to get a final inspection here for my occupancy and generally speaking they like to see waist trains 245 or at least they're sweeping 90. okay all right so now I've got my angle I'm going to be directing this line towards that pipe you want to get this 45 in here now I'm gonna go three and a half should have everything here okay [Music] just to make things easy fitting on first and then I can open this one here I always glue the fitting and the pipe of course there we go now that is the shortest distance that I can work with here so now I've got the ability to line up my pump so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to get a gear clamps out here have a look at what our options are we're going to break this up into medium small and large most of these are four and a half a couple of twos okay so we're just going to line up our clamp tighten this on foreign start to gear up like that you know you're good to go here's another another gear clamp scenario here okay I'll set that one up I if you're a homeowner and you're trying to put a bathroom somewhere you don't want to open your floor problem solution right this is Plumbing for idiots I mean anybody can do this if I get this on here I'm not making that turn I'm gonna have to put this valve on going up somewhere up here all right and that's fine so let's do this we're going to finish connecting this pipe down over here then one and a half to one and a half two to one and a half I guess that'll be so this will be a two inch with the gear clamp oh come on watch that okay obviously this comes so they can be modified this is a cap or it can be a connection here we go don't be afraid to be a little creative if you need to be remember the outside diameter of the pipe is what we're working with here so this fitting is designed to go on an outside diameter of a two inch pipe and that's what I'm bringing as my waste from the laundry so if I got to modify this little end gasket here that'll work just fine here we go there we are foreign okay of course that yeah that's sealed up too I'll cut this end off as well and I'll be ready to install the pipe we're going to cut something short just enough for a gear clamp on each side we'll minimize our distance here great hack guys is use your cardboard for your drawing and as the police to connect catch all your drips on your adhesive okay now this should fit right over that pipe like a glove it's just going to be easier to do it here yeah get the ring on first here we go okay okay all righty then there we go all right so the connection now shower elbow 45 joint joint done this is the final resting location for this that's our electrical that'll work great we are going to put a short 90 here this is not a um a waste drain working under Gravity this one's Under Pressure so we're okay to have 90 degree short fittings here because the line's under pressure and that is my location where I want it so we're going to cut this pipe now assuming that this is a fixed location I'm going to go three inches Mark with my thumb just trying to be careful not to get adhesive all over my new floor here and if you're curious about how I'm installing vinyl flooring is a sheet roll gonna be having that video in the bathroom series you can check the video description for that link sheet vinyl is still a great option especially in laundry and bathrooms in the house you don't have to make everything look like it was in a design book they're just last week you know you can be practical and go with flooring that's going to last 50 years that's easy to install alrighty now I know I'm gonna hear in the comment section what are you using that Teflon tape for there Jeff that's so thick that's supposed to be for gas lines like yep but you know what when you run out of the regular Plumbing Teflon this is a great solution to the problem now this fitting is one and a half inch male thread every threaded fitting in North America has been exactly the same since they started Plumbing in the very very early ages okay they've never changed the size of that thread which makes it absolutely amazing so if you have old pipes in your house and you're converting all you got to do is measure the size that says one and three quarters because inside is one and a half so all the measurements for plumbing are based on the inside Dimension not the outside dimension in this kind of a situation okay so this is a one and a half inch thread for a one and a half inch pipe everything that's on the Shelf is going to be listed for either one and a quarter one and a half or two inch or three inch or four inch I guess too often you're going to get into four inch unless you're going underneath your concrete okay I'm gonna use my vice grips here all right confirm my office like that so it'll function I want it about this high so I'm now dealing with about eight inches foreign we're just going to rotate that we'll leave that there for now this is a waistline we're going to be bringing it up and then a nice gentle slope back to this corner so I made it in the bottom of that pipe is 37 and a half so we're going to bring this one up to I'm going to go to 39 just because I know this floor is lowering all right so 39 from 27 and a half basically 11 and a half all right all right because that fitting is so heavy it's going to just be awkward for the next couple minutes here 's the rest of my pipe extension and we're going to just put a regular 90 on this we don't have to go the sweeping 90 here again this is all under pump until after the corner and we're gonna go heading over in the general direction this is temporary we're going to measure from inside the fitting to the end of this fitting we're going to find something easy to work with 34 33 and a half it's going to be really hard to accommodate but 33 will be easy because I can move this so let's go from the clean end 33 . if you haven't bought one of these yet make sure you pick one up sure that if you go to our Amazon store we'll have a link just in case you're not close to a Home Depot or the store where you like to shop and they're not carrying it it is a lifesaver for Residential Plumbing this one's more fixed so I'm going to start here and then we'll connect that together beautiful just making sure I'm not level and I've got a downslope perfect anytime you see the bubble crossing the line you know you got at least a one degree slip so that Crossing that line is perfect all right okay this unit has to be vented okay which is why we established this that's what this is for this is the vent for the unit we're gonna have to go like this because of course I need two more of these things so let's get this started because there is a dryer here and the dryer duct is up here I'm going to be using a flexible dryer line to come over I want to try to keep all of this as close to the wall as I can so my first piece of pipe that I'm going to cut is going to be just so I can do the clamp I'm going to do a fitting we're going to get this bad boy in here we are not too aggressive nice and subtle that's not high enough [Music] and we want to bring that over to this fitting to then go up the wall it's right here you're cutting a pipe like this if you add the fitting and just think left to right if it's too long no problem it's easy to fix right rather cut a little bit longer and try two or three times instead of cutting short the other thing I can do I can rotate like that solvent working here foreign okay now that we're nice and close to the wall we're going to get one inch piece so I can attach my coupling coming out of the pump over here and these situations you are going to get this stuff all over you that's not a problem I'm going to line that up okay I'm gonna just dry fit this for a second it's going to take about a half an inch off for this here we go all right okay we're gonna just dry fit here so we can get our measurement we're going to go with eight and a quarter we're going to use as precise as we can on that eight and three eighths okay let's do this says my eight and three eighths nope that's the seven okay now we've got our waist in we've got our connection for the waist out and we've got our vent for this pump the only thing left to do now is bring the waste over for our two inch series just before it goes into this pump I'm venting this line as well just to make sure that isn't going to have any issues with my inspection now this is what we call a bushing everybody out there who wants to know how to go from two inch to one and a half you buy a bushing it's the same two inch diameter on the outside and then it becomes a one and a half inch fitting for the pipe on the inside that is a great solution to a lot of problems I'm going to put that here I need about a two inch piece of two inch pipe here we go well that one works better than my one and a half I'm gonna get that connected so we can stick that in we got one more two inch clamp around here somewhere that is going to be a serious problem um oh there it is oh thank God there we go okay I thought I had enough of them like surprised every second I was like no he's like that would have been a trip to the store speaking of which if you do run out or lose your ear clamps they do sell these at the local hardware store on half inch increments and then one inch increments I think after you get to two inches okay there we are just remember when you're tightening that up you're actually compressing on the pipe which can bend and then snap don't think that oh I can get a little more out of it it's not necessary okay we're just compressing rubber gasket up against an ABS but it doesn't need a whole lot so we're done connecting everything into here now they do sell an alarm you can actually attach in here as well I don't have the alarm for this kit it's going to be out in the open and it's going to be very visible if it stops running you'll know in a heartbeat because it'll overflow when you're doing your laundry what I'm going to suggest is get the alarm I don't have it on me today to install but according to the pictures it's just a low box it sticks on the top it says hey you've got a problem with your ejection pump which could be a problem for your laundry if the alarm goes off you want to turn the laundry off right away too it would be nice if the alarm was also connected to the laundry power so it could turn the machine off I haven't yet talked to Santa flow to see if we have a solution for that now here's the vent for this one we're gonna go with a two inch piece it looked like reasonable [Applause] we'll dry fit that give that kind of lines up yeah that's not terrible could be a little bit longer to be honest if you're not happy with something fix it before you move forward that's the basic rule of all renovation not happy don't move forward be happy with what you just accomplished before you move on to the next step or it is going to drive you nuts you'll end up going backwards and doing everything twice okay here we are now we're going to dry fit this and get a measurement inside to here I'm gonna go 15 and a half foreign here's why dry fitting is so valuable because you do have about 30 seconds to a minute before this solvent is not going to be useful to you okay here we go here we are done and done next up just connect the waste here we go that was temporary we want to have that foreign nice and tight we're going to go with one inch there we go now this next one is going to be tricky because that pipe has got a little bit of flexibility in it we're going to go super sloppy on the solvent here and we're gonna turn it on with gentle pressure now that's all we need now once I'm done with this Plumbing all we've got left now is to connect everything into the breaker box 10 and a quarter plus a half ten three quarters that is amazing put a few breakers on power everything up call for final inspection ah I know not every video is crazy sexy sometimes it's just good old practical advice seeing somebody do a solution that might be a little intimidating to you make it look relatively easy that's not such a bad thing eh [Music] nice piece if you like getting information like that guys give this video a thumbs up and let me know right I'm happy to do the utility type content like this so that you can be empowered to take on bigger and bigger projects bottom line with everything going on in this world not only is it crazy expensive but sometimes almost impossible to get someone to help you out so you're better off to do all this stuff yourself okay remember DIY isn't just an option nowadays in a lot of cases it's the only option you've got to be empowered do it yourself cheers

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

Views: 137,826

Keywords: homerenovision, renovision, jeff thorman, homerenovisiondiy, how to add a laundry room, how to move a laundry room, plumbing, electrical wiring, do it yourself, diy, laundry room, renovation ideas, how to install saniflo, how to, how to remodel a bathroom

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Length: 32min 35sec (1955 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2022