HOW TO INSTALL PEX PIPE - WHY PEX PIPE IS BETTER AND CHEAPER THAN COPPER PIPE

this is PEX piping sighs happy sighs half inch half inch and 3/4 different colors as red as for hot blue is for cold or you can just go with the solid white and then just mark it with tape as you go the difference is so you can keep track of what's what when you're working on the project for example I'll show you over here and here's an installation for the master bathroom and as you can see the color is helping you keep understand with what colors to go in blue is always on the right as you are installing it and if you're working from the back you can get confused and that's why I had this tape there to keep me appraised of what it would be now this is this is very simple to install as opposed to copper which have to be sweat soldered and letter crimp connections with brass fittings and I'll show you those in just a minute but Christopher's gonna be finalized later here are various fittings that are brass and you notice that barbs on the hand that's a T connection from 3/4 this is a straight connection for a half-inch and they all come in all different configurations so there's a package of 3/4 3/4 by 1/2 you could tap off the path inch for that and you nail it down with these straps which will show you how to do that doodles you're very simple do you by the way to straighten up it's just you bend it with your hand careful not to crimp it but you can bend it with your hand and the connections these print on connections of stainless steel so we're gonna do one at the top of this installation that's almost complete Christopher's gonna do the final connections of an entire house project so we're gonna put it there you leave about an eighth of an inch of to being showing and then you use these crimp on connections or crimpers put it on like that 90 degrees and then you squeeze this is over my head so it's a little harder but generally okay that's the finished crimp go down all the way little release if you don't sew marking it for cutting we want to support it there there so the other two are to need is a pair of cutters runs about twelve bucks at Home Depot and you get a straight first put it down put it on there again leave your or hat eighth of an inch clearance there and I'll film push the firdos the final gripping alright he comes in his first Credle go ahead and insert it right in this little slot here saves a ton of money using and a ton of time so folks the PEX tubing saves a ton of money and a ton of time instead of running copper all the way up you're running PEX tubing all the way up and down just with your connections or down here etc so very little amount of copper and a lot of pecks to be fantastic and here are half inch to pingers and we're gonna put on four and then here we're gonna put one there and we're gonna put one down here and we're gonna put we have to nail these in I'm just getting it into position we have to put one down here they just slip on sort them snap-on would be a better term and that holds it in position that's all you need I put these brackets in place previously the valve bathroom and we'll show you solder connections for the valve tub copper allows you to have that nice snap in for your shower or if you've used pecs it's not going to work that you have to take the valve out of are the innards out of the valve body so it doesn't burn when you do it so he's going to go back to the other side while I nail these in place the students place underneath the house and you can see the main connections alright folks we are down in the crawl space this is a piece of one inch packs coming that's coming from the well and it's buried over six feet down because we're 7,000 feet up in Colorado and it gets frizzy here we got a pecs valve that gets shut off the water supply I've got an adapter goes to three-quarter pecks bring it up here now this particular fitting is for when I use a compressor to purge out the water if I want to winterize it over winter these are drains for the cold I branch off with a t connection going down and catch a lot of the other connections now I come in out of the hot water heater with my red this is my red line the whole house and you can see where it comes up that feeds the laboratory showed you before the blue one also at the same time coincidentally you're seeing black iron pipe this is for the propane tank installation because we're again out of the country and we're on propane so that's black iron but the same thing for the natural gas so the property from the well right over here has Tech's running all the way to the guest house and then this is the main house here but we've been drinking well water all week long while I've been staying here no taste no weird taste in the PEX piping at all I can attest to that and it tastes very refreshing comment below in the video if you know if PEX piping is bpa free or not I think it is but again if you know better than I do comment in the comment section below alright folks how to install PEX piping [Music]

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Length: 6min 51sec (411 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 17 2017