How To Install Light Fixtures | Mirror | GFCI

hey guys in this video we're going to deal with how to finish off your renovations specifically in the bathroom um we should have enough skill sets by the time i've done this video that you can hang just about anything or install just about anything anywhere in your house we're going to deal with some electrical some gfi some plugs light fixtures we're going to deal with mirrors we're going to do with faucets we're going to deal with anything you have to attach to the wall really okay so we're going to have a bunch of different processes we're going through drywall we're going through tile we're going to do just about everything you could ever need to do we're going to show you how to use the basic hand tools to get all this done all right and then you can be competent and install anything moving forward this should be a lot of help it'll be pretty condensed hopefully you can learn something new for the first time here so let's just jump right in this generally speaking i like to work from the top down which means lighting and that is easy because if i do the lighting then i can turn the lights on all right so because we have the camera here today we have artificial lighting we have our own lights i'm not going to worry too much about that so i'm going to install one of these light fixtures and i'm also going to install a mirror and i'm going to use a laser line for this okay because we are looking for perfection here whenever you're doing a project you want to use the center of your faucet to be exactly the distance middle distance between your light fixtures all these kinds of things you really want to think end from the beginning frame everything put your boxes in with the end goal in mind okay so right now we've got this all set up so it's double sink two oval mirrors and the gap between the light fixture and each mirror edge is exactly the same on all along this wall so i think we're gonna get a great finish this is my center line i've lined it up on the sink here and what we're going to do is well what's easier for the camera i'll get on this side of the line how's that so i've already measured this off to exactly center between the two light boxes and it's right on my tap which is what it should have been if you're not sure how i came to that conclusion you can watch the previous video on how to and go from a single to a double sink okay pretty sure we cover all the information about how to line up your boxes i'm going to put a reference mark here just in case i end up kicking the light as i go along okay so this is our mirror it's a nice oval see that's why i put that pencil on there i'm going to want to have that for reference so we will put that back and straddle that okay what i'm doing now is i'm just going to go and look for what looks the best right i don't need to see the ceiling and i'm 5 10 and a half 511 in my dad shoes right so i'm going to bring it down just a bit this is good my thumbs are actually about two inches below where the the electrical box is i like that i can see everything i'm wearing i can see right to the countertop i think that's going to work out well so we're going to keep that in mind and we're going to take a look at the light fixture that hole mounts right in the middle of the box and the light centers a little bit below this so that means the center line in this mirror should be about an inch and a half below the box so that's a good spot right okay now what i can do with my laser is i can raise this bad boy up and the reason i love to use this is because i'm doing more than one mirror if you're only doing one mirror you can do all kinds of cheating here but when you're doing two you're going to have a system that you can duplicate because you can see the hooks on the back here these are designed to put in two screw plugs in the wall and you hang it on the screw there's not a lot of mercy here so you got to get this pretty dead on now there's my laser line about two inches below the box we're gonna call that the center okay so now i'm gonna find the center of my mirror about there okay i'm gonna put a line all right here we go from that line i'm gonna go nine inches what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna measure up nine inches from here this is going to be the height of my hooks and this is my center line right here we go and my hooks my screw heads are going to be seven and three quarter inches apart well that's just brilliant so let's change this again bathrooms are always so much fun because there's never enough room in here to really function okay seven and five-eighths if you're not good with math you take your seven and five eighths and you just fold your tape over okay and then you can read right there it's three and seven eighths okay so i'm going to put three and seven eighths on my red line make a mark seven and five eighths make my other mark there we go now all i gotta do is make sure that that line is level and i don't need a laser for that there we go there and there now the only other thing you need to know now is if there's a stud there and if we don't have a stud then we know we need a wall plug so you put your stud finder right against the wall and then you press the button and when it says ready which is the green light you start sliding there's a stud there so i'm right on the edge of the stud that's going to be tricky and wow i have another stud here very unique so whether it's a stud or some other obstruction i'm not exactly sure i know my plumbing is in the center of the wall and it's horizontal here for the vents and i'm not sure what's going on there so what i'm going to do is i'm going to do an exploratory hole with i'm going to use my my robertson bit this is a safe way to check there's nothing here that's sharp enough to penetrate a plumbing line or electrical line and do damage so since we're not sure we're just going to start like this yeah i'm right off the edge okay and then this if i'm putting a screw there it's going to go and it's going to be very very unique here i actually have stud in this case i don't need wall plates what i do need to do is just put a plug here and leave about 3 16 of space between the head of that screw in the wall so that that hook can go on and over here i'm going to cheat i'm going to drill in an angle so i get positive contact with that stud and the goal is to have that screw head line up where i want it when i'm done bam loving that all right now there are two ways to mount these mirrors right you can take a airline wire and you can buy a little mirror hanging kit at the store and you wrap it around each end and then you only put one screw in the middle and you can set your mirror on and you can level it off and that works great but when you have two you can't do that because they'll never be level so this is why we've got to do it the old-fashioned hard way what you want to do is get your fingers on here if it's stiff enough you can set them like that and forget it great stand to the side just line them up there we go boom but that's going to work great but the si the secret here is taking this information transferring it over there so what we have to do before we move forward okay let's get this horizontal line on again and we want to take this information and we were nine inches above yes i want to come over here off the center mark i want to mark my nine inches above okay and then i'm going to want to bring my laser level over off the center hole mark this get a center line measure both directions again and do the same thing okay now let's move on to the light fixture i already know because this is my house and i wired this that the power goes with that box then that box then over here so i'm starting at the end i'll work my way back over there and when i'm doing the first light in the series i'll double check make sure the switch is off so i don't have any power in it right now i don't know but because it's not connected i know there's no power in this so just as a precursor so you know i'm not working crazy with the power on not that that makes me nervous but for today's video we'll assume i'm saying all right here we go this particular fixture comes with a few elements always open up your packaging before you go install you'll never find light bulbs in a light fixture box in most cases okay so we've got lens we've got the mount with the wiring and we've got a mounting bracket okay and then this little ring here is what's used to tie all these together and once it's connected then you add the bulb afterwards so let's just go through the process first of all we're going to need a robertson screw bit which we have because these screws are the mounting screws for this plate what we want to do is bring the wires through the middle nice and easy there we go and because we're mounting through the middle off this bracket anywhere where we can set this whereas i'm going to install easily we're going to go with okay you don't have to go with one of the little holes you can use one of the big ones and adjust it over time doesn't really matter these brackets are designed to be incredibly functional and and actually incredibly versatile you can even mount this round box on an old rectangular box and turn that into a light if you get if you need to all right because it has all these different options for mounting here we go so i got my neutral i got my power and i got my ground and for good measure we're going to back up the ground screw and then tighten it on if you wire clockwise and you tighten clockwise everything tightens when you use the drill if you put it on the wrong side it'll all just fire right out of it okay you're going to run in all kinds of trouble look at this this is cute like i was saying earlier you don't want to be doing all your fixtures and stuff until your paint has been drying for a couple of days it needs to harden every time something bumps into it it'll make a dent or a scratch or mark and you can't wash it off remember you can't wash your washable paint on your walls until 30 days after you paint because that's how long it takes it to cure before you can wash it oh geez careful jeff careful here we go so you can see how i'm wrapping it around that wire a lot trying to guarantee positive contact long term after this install is over hey that's enough of that there boy all right here we go now i'm gonna take this wire and i'm gonna do that as well i know this is overkill because these screws make this plate grounded to the box but you know going a little overkill isn't going to hurt anybody in this situation now you really want to figure out where your wires are going to go here okay and you want to kind of connect everything around free from obstruction and this is only a quarter inch thick and i've got almost an inch of this threaded rod sticking out so we're going to tighten it back up and i'm going to stick this on why is that only going in there we go i almost crossed threaded that max that one really sucked okay so i have another problem here that i'm gonna have to deal with now can you imagine can you guess anybody guess in the comments section that's right i used a pan box and for whatever reason they decided to give us a three-inch bolt for mounting this box like that's the bolt needs to be an inch long here looks like it's making contact with the ground wire in there let's move that out of the way there we go now we should be able to get enough of that thread it in there to make enough room all right sometimes the thickness of the ground wire is all that it takes i'm liking my odds here yes sir that was it [Music] now we're going to polish this up this is a great time to check for stickers by the way the sticker is actually on the ring sometimes it's on the light fixture and it has stickers telling you information about the light bulbs you can use you want to remove that sticker as soon as possible in the old days we just have incandescent light bulbs and got really warm and those stickers would always leave a nasty residue if you turn the lights on before removing them electricians are famous for not removing stickers off a light fixture so be careful about that all right as it turns out how about some led light fixtures light bulbs holy crap are these ever huge that's a lot of bulb just wanted 60 watts i didn't realize i had to get something as big as my car there we go that's the light fixture installed yay um i would show you at work but we'll show you the end of the video okay we'll make sure that we do an after shot of the whole room so you get the whole idea here we go on to the next fixture we don't want to waste any of your time so regular wall plug um we got a lot of wire here okay i'm gonna grab the end and all you do is turn it it creates a nice hook okay it's easy to work with this okay you set it on one side of that box and you can pinch the wire shut and then you just tighten it on okay piece of cake now generally on almost every picture you get the screws on the side with the ground are always the whites all right and brass and black okay white and the silver so the way you remember this is the brass and the black go together i think i did a video of this before and i got that wiring combination screwed up it wasn't always incredibly comfortable on camera my brains would scramble here we go so we're going to have this part of a circuit so this power's coming in and going out all right so generally what i like to do is do the whites first okay again you pinch the end and you curl a hook into it all right now i am not a master electrician by any stretch but let's just be honest you don't need to have a master electrician to wire a receptacle any more than you need an engineer to drive a car down the street this stuff is not that tricky and anybody who's doing their wiring wrapping their wire around the screws is already miles ahead as far as integrity is concerned because on the back they have these little holes push and play like you can just push the wire in there i'm telling you right now if you want to do nice wiring job at your house don't use those holes yes they're convenient well that's really long yes the holes are convenient but they are known to fail get a loose connection and then you can't ever pull them back out you have to cut them off which means you have a live piece of wire sticking out of the back when you go in the box next time and you increase the risk of problems and starting fires and all that business just put a wire on a screw all right and stop being lazy if you spend your whole career and you stop one fire from happening as an electrician because you do this versus the plug and play it was worth the time you took okay let's do this um talk to me are you the uh oh my god upside down or are you more like this kind of look which do you prefer i like to make them look like a face for whatever reason the human brain recognizes that and it finds it more aesthetically pleasing if you think i'm wrong let me know but i've had long conversations with people about this before there is no actual right way and wrong way here all right the secret is you push it to the wall and then you tighten it up okay [Music] don't over tighten because you'll push this too far inside and then the wall plate won't cover nice speaking of wall plates if you do a decent job with your drywall you won't need to use oversized plates you can get the normal size if however you have too big of a hole because of your remodel okay you don't like that you can always push them around just a little bit there we go gotta love a good olfa knife as long as you've got a knife on you you never need a screwdriver and again these screws go vertical okay aesthetically pleasing okay now we can jump on to the faucet before we do we'll talk real quick about the gfi all right okay gfi all right they have a few different versions out here the idea is if something horrible goes wrong it turns itself off that's all you need to know as a homeowner on the back again you got brass and you got silver you got a ground screw and you have this little taped on section okay if you're only bringing a single pair of wires a black and a white you wire it right here and if you want the circuit to continue from here you may remove the yellow tape and you put the black and the white here and that carries on to the next fixture wow that was complicated huh listen the technology is all in the switch you don't have to know anything different that plug down there costs 1.95 and this one costs 28 dollars you got to trust the technology don't wire it backwards or you most likely will kill it and then you have to spend another 30 bucks for a new one they're a little bit sensitive let's just set these wires up now this is contrary to common sense this one's actually live uh i'm just not in the mood to go downstairs and do this right now we are going to wire the whole switch right up to the last live wire and we'll do that one at the end all right again we'll do the ground first oh neat all right my bad these don't need hooks see that next these have got a um a big brass plate and the screw released makes hole to slide the wire straight in cut them all back again and we're just going to go with whatever the recommended distance is for this nice not too long you don't want to have exposed wires sticking out of the back of the box well this is actually a lot more entertaining than i thought so you have to hold it upside down in order to release the plate and then you can turn it over tighten the screw good now we're gonna do the two whites now this is the one with the power okay and this is the one where the power comes in okay and interesting system they got here all right now both of these screws are all the way through to the other side of the brass all right flip it over okay now it's time for some safety precautions because we're going to deal with a live circuit i'm going to wrap all of the screws in electrical tape okay perfect loving it and here's the reason why if you touch a live wire you don't electrocute yourself because there's no circuit until it connects to the neutral so if i can't come in contact with the neutral wire i can't complete the circuit loving it so now we're going to take the live power off and we're going to cut it back a little bit because it's a little long we're going to treat it with a healthy amount of respect here if anything goes wrong here it's on me so what i want to do is get rid of this i'm going to open that gate up okay i'm holding the tab at the end because these two are always safe even in the live situation okay good all right now let's hit the reset button and the little light should turn on oh i guess the power was not after all right on okay i'll have to go down and turn the breaker on always better to treat it like the power's on and then you'll never have to worry about someone like let's say uh one of your sons going downstairs and they go downstairs and they go oh that one's not working that must be mine yeah that happens so the other thing you can do is have a little proximity tester a little green stick on you or something all right so i just threw my laser level on the the mouth of that plug and it's on the mouth of that plug so the boxes are perfectly level what we have here is gonna be really common this countertop is not installed level there's a nasty slope it comes with these beautiful big feet on it that didn't give us the ability to level it off to perfection what we have is flat stable and pretty darn level as a result this plug is a quarter inch lower towards the countertop than this side and i have a stone backsplash so although it looks great it's going to be an issue as soon as i put the back on so what i've got to do got to raise this bad boy up because i need four inches of clearance right now i only have three and seven eighths okay so now i get to show you how to fix this as a diy renovator you're going to want to follow a lot of these little tips a little systems that i use okay here's one of my systems that i use when i mount my boxes i mount my boxes with one screw on a 45 degree angle from the middle going into the second hole all right here's why look at the size of this cover plate okay right i've got almost a half an inch of mercy here that i can play with so let's dig right in here max so what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut out drywall so that i can raise the box now this particular box has got the set screws on the inside of the box which is brilliant so when you're shopping you got choices the boxes come with the set screw on the inside or there's a little flange on the top and the bottom whatever you do make sure you always set it so that you can maneuver it to a new height [Music] okay now up we go right on okay again let's get the mouth working let's pre-bend the wires so they collapse properly and finish vertical now listen this is kind of like best case scenario everything's brand new everything's already flat and level you know using a laser level works but as soon as you have to start modifying things to fit a space like we did with the vanity and you can watch that in the other video that we did about how to go from single to double vanity really this should not be that difficult for a screw okay here we go then you'll appreciate the amount of effort and energy that goes into making this look good i'm only off half a degree maybe one degree tops over six feet and that eighth of an inch is the difference between me doing what cutting the plate what's the other option here cut the stone i'm about to stick on no the option is lift this up and make it look like it's set at the same height it's not going to be the end of the world it's still going to look perfect when you walk in and nobody's going to walk in your bathroom the laser will go aha you're out of 16 of an inch so there we go problem solved listen because we have lots of room we're gonna do the backsplash um then i'm going to add the silicone seal and then i'm gonna put the faucets in uh why the heck not right let's just make life difficult for me work top down and back front i would suggest usually in most cases put in the faucet first but i'm down for a challenge today i'm gonna go get the backsplash and i'm gonna teach you how to mount this and no you can't just use anything you got to use the right stuff so let's just do a test on this first see how it looks that's upside down we really don't want to start in the wrong direction there's a polished and an unpolished edge here this is natural stone these quartz all righty look at that that's pretty darn awesome you can tell gravity does most of the work here right when you go to install so anything that's a stone follow the same procedure like as if it's natural stone if you treat everything like marble you'll never make a mistake marble is porous different products have different porosity and you can attach things with white silicone black silicone clear silicone pl premium but sometimes the wrong combination of those adhesives will cause you to see the adhesive stain through the stone and you'll end up with a big squiggly line and then who's gonna look like an idiot right so might i suggest the best process here is to just lay it down and you don't even have to get too close to the edge okay gravity is going to do most of the work here all right and we're going to just slide it into place there you go so i don't even know if i'm happy with that i might have to take this off and just raise it up another quarter inch to get a bit of a gap resist the temptation to press it into the wall most walls have got a bit of a bend and a wave to it okay come back with your clear silicone and just throw the tiniest little bead right against the top and if the hole opens up just make it a wider bead the reason we're using clear is because it's a pre-painted surface okay and you'll see the paint through the silicone after it dries and you won't really be able to tell the gap now don't use just transparent the transparent stuff gets a little cloudy white and it never looks as nice but the clear always comes out looking more like a window like a piece of glass all right and when you do this you want to have the side of the finger pressed against the wolf so that if it squeezes anywhere it squeezes onto and behind the stone okay you see the gaps unacceptable always managing your silicone and your drips all right get a bigger hole and then open up the hole that wide and then just do a second pull close that gap if you fill it properly you won't get those shadows and stuff from the product not making contact with the back of the stone and behind it i know that looks a little funny right now but let it dry and it almost totally disappears that's how you fix an imperfect world clear silicone do not touch that again once you put silicone somewhere do not work above it for at least 24 hours all right or 12. like don't be nuts but at least 12. now we're also going to want to put a little bead right down here to prevent water from getting in between the backsplash and the countertop and this is just a thin bead nice and easy i'm always managing the tip of that silicone this is where having the faucet here first is difficult trying to manage that look at all the difficulty i'm having here turn your water on use your finger to drive it okay there we go now we're going to move on to the other faucet in case you didn't see me and saw the faucet on the going from one to two vanity video okay we're gonna do the quick version of this for the extended version you can watch the video where we went from not one vanity to two but one sink to two sinks we changed the plumbing we opened the wall we did everything re-rooted in it all right so it's worth the watch because one of the ways you can increase the value of your home is if you have a single vanity in your master bath change it to a double his and hers right easy money okay so here we go i just tried to remove what i saw was a foreign obstacle in the drain it turned out to be a piece of that broken glass from that damn light i wanted to show you so reach down and pushed it with my finger and guess what it didn't move but the finger did that really sucked and there we go i just saved 1500 in hospital bills okay just joking i don't have to pay for mine up here and i didn't want to rub it in here we go here's our faucet assemblies right all right when you're dealing with these widespread faucets there's always multiple parts make sure you consult with the installation instructions but for the most part you're going to have something like this you back up the bottom plate so now you have something nice and tight and the handle goes on and it makes something pretty with an eighth of an inch there so there's no no rubbage when you're opening and turning it okay piece of cake and then we can thread on a washer from underneath they're marked hot and cold all right and then we have the faucet line which has got something similar going on right here like that there's no way to connect that and hold it in place until afterwards yay this is the drain comes in the gasket for up top it's also threaded here okay here is a place i think i forgot to do that on the other video max anything that's threaded should have a joint compound okay and it can be as simple as something like this been in that box man for months look at that comes out like brand new okay nothing too serious go backwards until it sits in the cradle there off we go to the races okay that's just to make sure that nothing leaks down the road um you can buy different tailpieces that's why it comes like that all right sort of different functions so whatever is what it is we just drop that in the hole and everything else we connect from underneath here's the uh the shortened skinny on it okay so you drop that in and then from underneath you put this other gasket on this way okay there's a hole in the sink that you want that wedge to fill and it goes under compression by using a slip ring and that and then you tighten it all up okay now if you want to watch the whole palming assembly we've got it in the video for how to go from a single to a double sink i suggest you watch it it's very detailed and step by step but just so you know plumbing is pretty basic every time you buy a plumbing fixture it comes with instructions all right and if you like these particular faucets they're very affordable real bell pro information in the video description so you can find out where to get it where you live the good thing is is the faucet part here okay it's a push connect all right and so the water supply hot and cold go into the bottom here underneath the sink and then just push connect the top in alright it's about as simple a plumbing as you're going to find in the market and this stuff works phenomenal let's just get it on make sure your handles go in horizontal so you turn towards you that's why they're marked hot and cold because they operate in the opposite function so make sure you put the hot on the right side and there's this lovely little set screws in here for the handles okay this little piece of packaging that looks like garbage keep it don't throw that out all right there we go there's the skinny okay now remember i showed you how to draw the lines over here for the other mirror i wanted to just put this one in because um real quick i got weirdly lucky with studs and framing in the wall this one not so lucky i missed it by half an inch and this one there's nothing here okay so in this case i'm just going to take my phillips bit all right i'm going to put it right where the hole is that's it okay i'm going to punch a couple of holes in here i'm going to show you i get these at home depot okay these are actually one of the best wall drywall anchors out there now if you haven't seen it we do a video we're kind of making fun of drywall anchors because most of them don't work with their darn all right these actually do you collapse the middle and you push the points over all right you stick them in that hole and generally speaking they're bigger than your drill bit take your hammer and sink them in nice and flush they have that star grid on the backside it cuts the drywall okay so they won't twist so feel free to give them a good shot all right and then inside the package they have this little red plunger okay and it's skinny skinny skinny and then it gets thick and you want to put that plunger in there and push it until the thick part goes all the way to the back maybe i'll just show you what happens to it and what happens is it pushes the back out okay and then when you put in the screw this screw goes all the way through the back and then pulls it nice and tight and creates this crazy wedge right that is a really good system and i love it it's harder than you think sometimes there we go all right it takes a lot of force there we go now these are robertsons imagine that i wasn't expecting that to be a canadian product and then at the same time i shouldn't be surprised that the best plug system that i like is a canadian product all right okay one more quick time i haven't even checked to see but because it's a robertson screw and i'm thinking it's a canadian product i'm going to check to see if this is available on amazon if it is i'll put in the video description down below not too many robertson screw fixture products available in the states wow the back of this mirror is crazy sharp i almost want to wear gloves touching this thing so what happens when you purchase stuff actually these weren't even on amazon my wife went and bought these at the store there we go okay all right another reason to buy an olfa knife right there makes your finger really long piece of cake right ah she's coming together okay so this part of the video is going to be just really um just information based it's not going to be a step-by-step install i don't want to be the guy that makes an installation video for every kind of door on the market in every scenario i'll do that for a whole year right that just it's not helpful but what we are going to do is we're going to share the the thinking process the design process so that you order the right door okay remember when you are building a shower your pan has got a certain size but it gets attached to the framework and then we add a tile backer board or cement board or water resistant drywall or whatever have you of half an inch then we're adding thinset and tile so your build out is almost an inch on each side so usually if it's a brand new build you'd have a 34 inch space on tile on tile now i'm 33 and now when i measure this across i actually end up at 32 and three quarters okay so when you go to the hardware store and this is part of the reason why we did this because you can buy all this at home depot they make these insight is the is the um the model all right and it's called the pivot door which means it has a piece of hardware where the doors hinge it's swinging on a hinge it's not a slider and in small spaces you've got to have a hinge door and it'll give you two numbers and this is the range okay the hardware itself has got a bracket that attaches to the glass that you can adjust with the drill and you can slide the pin over the bracket up to an inch and a half distance from one to the next so what you end up doing is when you get this kind of a package you first take the instructions and you got to read through them all right to make some sense of it because every company is a little different in this particular situation one side of the door has got three pieces of aluminum track that can be built out which is really mind-blowing so let's take a look at this so here we are obviously this is the piece that the door will close against okay the door itself has a magnetic track on it and here is the here's a piece of track that you could use all right because i like to be able to put this is actually the middle piece believe this or not okay ready there we go there's the middle piece this is the piece that actually gets attached to the wall okay and the fun part here is you would put a silicone adhesive on there now they tell you to line this up and drill holes we already know how hard it is to drill a hole around here but then the second track sits right in it has a little groove here check that out they stack together kind of like a lego block okay all right and then the door track would fit inside of it and you would actually put the screw through both pieces of trim the holes line up and then you put the door track inside of this one there we go and that's how you would get the build out for a really small shower well my shower is a 33. so it would stand to reason that i wouldn't need this much build out right but the truth of it is is even when i fully extend the door on the hinge i measured it off in advance this is a little bit more than i need right but instead of using this piece with that track up against that wall i'm going to cheat and use this piece up against the wall with the silicone and then i'm going to come by and install this track and here's the cool part i'm going to show you when we do the installation later but my thinking is this since i have a little bit of mercy here i can make adjustments for level okay and i can take a point and i can pre-drill a hole through both pieces of metal and i have a special cap like a dish with a screw and then a snap-on chrome cap that i can get and i can do that from the inside obviously so it's more decorative and i can get this lined up perfectly all right i like that flexibility so that's how i'm going to do it that means i need these two pieces so this one is going to go on this side this track goes on this side now here's where it gets a little weird in all the years that i was working and we'd have custom glass installers come on site never once did these guys ever drill anything into the tile okay they simply use the structural silicone put painters tape on it and then came back the next day that's what we're gonna do in a lot of cases they would they would use um two-sided tape and then silicone on the back of the track and stick it all in place okay and then they would silicone the outside edge tape it mark it do the whole install and then let everything set up afterwards blows your mind there's really no need to be pre-drilling holes and putting penetrations in the wall if you use the right kind of silicone and tape it in place she's not going anywhere all right that's what i'm going to do what i'm going to do is i'm just going to start this video right after it's all set set up okay and then we can show you how to assemble the door and make the adjustments because i think that'll be a lot more valuable than watching me put silicone and tape everywhere so you're going to have to figure that out for yourself every shower is going to be different and these kits come these doors they come in these increments okay so they actually carry like five or six different sizes in the store locally which is really handy so make sure you measure properly for the finished space if you're going to order a door or something like that you've really got to consider how level is my wall am i going to be building it out am i adding a half inch thinset or a quarter inch and collapsing it so it's always best to try to order something like this after you're finished the tile don't guess in advance because it's just going to be very frustrating these are actually in stock it was really really handy all right so now it's time for me to install the door and i've read through all the instructions i've got my parts out i understand the process it's not that tricky step by step just follow their advice earlier i mentioned how i was going to install the track for the door and just use my structural silicone and two-sided tape to set it in place i did that and i came back and i took a look at it and i wasn't really happy because when i finished reading the instructions i realized there was no top rail this is a frameless door right there's only a frame on the left and right side there's nothing across the top so in reality there's nothing to keep the weight of that door from pulling away from the wall over time so in hindsight i decided to go back and even with the the frame installed i was able to go with a 3 16 bit glass and tile bit okay to get through the porcelain in the glaze and then i use a 3 16 one of these bad boys here it's a masonry drill and put it in my hammer drill and it punched the hole in no time and i was able to set a couple of those screws on each side that's always an option i usually use quarter inch bits but three sixteenths work just fine and then i was able to use the stainless steel screws in the package to fix it all in place i did have framing in the wall set up earlier whenever you're installing anything in the way of a plumbing fixture tub shower always anticipate someone's going to install the door later on and put framing in the wall and it'll save your bacon okay here we go we'll show you the assembly and then i'll show you a few key points from when you're setting a door in place because this is a safety glass you can tell because it's got a stamp okay safety glass always comes with a stamp to prove that it's safety glass which means that if i use the wrong kind of pressure or put pressure in the wrong place it'll just shatter it's actually happened to me on the job site before something like this only shorter for a neo-angle shower i set the corner i lined it up started sliding it back and the corner of the glass hit a screw head that was protruding just a little bit too far in the track yeah you can't just go to the store and buy a replacement right you have to call the manufacturer they have to ship it out special it takes weeks it'll drive you crazy so when you're working with this stuff be really careful to follow all the instructions read it and then read it again and then follow it after okay that's all i can say no to system in the world is exactly alike and there are hundreds of different manufacturers out there making this stuff so my suggestion is be careful there's a company out there i think it's ove right they make great products but their glass is 10 millimeter that's half inch their products are incredibly heavy all right we bought one of their shower kits once and it took four grown men to carry it upstairs it was unbelievably heavy it should be in three boxes not one i don't know what they're thinking so try to stick to the thinner glass this is like a 3 8 it's a lot lighter you'd be surprised the difference 40 pounds makes all right okay now they suggest to put this on facing away from the magnet all right and that's the bottom and that's the top it fits evenly great so just start with one side there we go just a word of warning don't just run your thumb along to push it down it'll get incredibly hot really fast and you'll be burned before you realize what happened that too i learned the hard way okay that is the inside of over here this is the outside of the glass that's where the decorative part goes here we go you just set that up it's funny because you know you can always use these compression fittings through glass as long as the metal is not in contact with the glass and you've got these plastic fittings you can put all kinds of pressure on the glass it's really strange in these situations don't be afraid to over tighten if you go too loose it'll just loosen up on you okay to date i have not been in a situation where i've been able to over tighten this here goes everything so now i gotta get it on my shoe so i can get my hand underneath it pick it up and we're gonna set this thing in place now it comes with a bracket that goes on the very bottom oh one second there's a little plastic piece that goes in the hole that's the same size yeah and that's about here [Applause] craziest thing i've seen i need to really make an adjustment here i have to adjust this hinge to make this door as wide as possible now so that's the widest it'll go we'll bring this into position set it on the bracket yes it's going to be too wide we're going to back it up about a half an inch okay okay that's perfect now i'm in position where i can install this bracket right again we gotta put the extra plastic wheel on here we're gonna set that down all right i've also got that really in a bad spot had no mercy for the install up there and then that happens okay try that again this is one of these moments you've just got to say to yourself i'm going to drive myself nuts it's going to be frustrating as hell i'm going to get through it i'm not going to lose my temper i'm not going to lose my temper i'm not going to lose my temper i'm not gonna lose my temper okay now believe it or not i'm supposed to now get a little tiny screw screw in place here to hold this bracket petrified hole of the door coming off okay this ain't going to work and i'm talking about the guys who made this door what the hell are they thinking there is a little set screw in here so i'm going to tighten it which creates compression from the hinge and the outside panel and i'm going to just tighten that so that nothing's slipping around anymore now i can use both hands okay maybe just maybe with my big fat fingers i can get these tiny little pieces together boy oh boy yeah good luck with that i need a longer drill bit i can't get my drill to line up because i'm i need a longer drill bit that's hilarious i need to go get my six inch drill bit now be right back sometimes four or five inches just isn't gonna do you got to pull out the big guns just so you can get the right angle okay all right right now what we want to do is we want to level this off we want to kind of square this up so that it's sitting in the hole properly before we bring in the next track okay [Music] good you know it's funny i was more concerned at the very beginning that i wasn't gonna have enough room my home's gonna be too big now i'm loving it okay so i don't need this anymore that was temporary okay what i want to do is i want to get the the last piece of track all right this track goes inside of this one here's my track and i have to drill from the back side in three spots to make a hole the right side for my machine screws so i push it all the way bring the magnet over snaps out the track exactly where i want it [Applause] now in this situation as soon as you feel yourself go through that second piece since it's just a hole there's no other glass or anything you're fine stop what you're doing get yourself a set screw line this up okay hopefully this works it's always a terrifying moment because the hardware they bring you is usually really soft alloy and because i felt a little bit too tight this time i'm going to drill the hole and i'm going to give it a little bit of wiggle room just to open up a hair more there we go this time i'm feeling a lot more confident i don't want the thread to have to fight that hard getting level [Music] perfect one for the bottom [Music] okay next thing is the handle eh relatively tight the washer will compress at that point without putting all that pressure into the glass and that's what's going to keep it from shattering on you just tightening on the handle maybe one of these days we'll buy one we'll just blow the door up for fun next but that's what it's for okay so don't have that experience and go i don't need a washer there goes your door it's five cents for the washer probably another 150 for the replacement glass door all right see how it works that looks alright that's an interesting installation okay now the only thing left for me to do it really is to just go along with all my silicone double check all my joints make sure everything is cleaned up and topped up and looking pretty right this is adjusted it's functional it's done now this is the benefit of doing the frame in one day and then walking away okay speeds up the whole process find something else to do with your time come back later when everything's fixed in place and you're ready to hang on it okay all right brilliant well hopefully that was helpful guys there's a lot of tips and a lot of tricks what you really need to know is every product out there is going to have installation instructions nowadays they don't always ship it with the product you have to go check online with the product code and the name and the instructions are always listed there make sure you follow their instructions don't cowboy and just go i've done these doors before it's too many products too many different nuances too many competitors in the marketplace to be able to do that anymore we're long gone are the day where things just make sense now we're all engineered really uniquely so i've installed i don't know maybe 100 or 150 shower doors on my day and i've only done five or six of them that were the same make and model twice or three times it's crazy but that's just the way it is all right um don't forget if you like this information and you want to learn more tips and tricks about maintenance and installation in your home give us a thumbs up don't forget to follow us subscribe to the channel put it in the comment section down beneath you just hit the show more and expand the comments tell us what kind of information you're looking to see because we've got our new studio up and running and we're making content specifically to inform you of how to do certain things we're finished the farmhouse now we're no longer making videos about what i'm up to we're making videos specifically for you to help you out okay so jump in the comments and tell us what 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Length: 59min 2sec (3542 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021