PEX Pipe - 5 Connection Options

on the build show today five flavors of Pex piping with Master Plumber Eric Anie let's get going all right guys I got Eric on in tell Eric I've been working out I'm feeling a little stronger than normal settle down mant all right so Eric we see a peex fitting right here yep and there's more than one option for peex fittings there's actually five flavors right yeah you know we see a lot of them out in the out in the industry this one in particular is made this is a brass fitting female adapter but it's got a a stainless steel press like collar ring on the end of it gotcha so how about this how about we go back to the studio Eric we'll actually roll out all five of the fitting options which show these guys the tools and let's talk about the options out there I think this is going to be a terrific video if you're building a custom home if you're a builder or even if you're a young plumber five flavors of pack I'll meet you back in the studio okay y'all're back at the studio I've got Master Plumber Eric Anie with me and on this video we're going to run down all five connection options on PCS I'm really intending this as a builder advice video if you're building a house here's the different options and I'm going to try and get Eric to give us a little uh kind of pros and cons on each one of these systems so that being said let's start at the first of the five connection options where do we start Eric well it's just kind of the agnostic uh known as a major brand in the industry but we're going to call it push to connect right P to connect that's technically what it is it's often times called a shark bite yeah they were the first brand that came out with this type of connection right yeah exactly and now all the man major manufacturers offer it's pretty cool stuff to be completely honest with you uor has it as well they came out with this not too long ago yeah brand new couple other brands yep but the whole idea here is there's no tool necessary right very little tool tools okay so there are a couple things that you do need for a push to connect fitting uh all the manufacturers are going to say you need some type of gauge to mark your tubing to show an insertion depth thing so I know we had a marker around here oh here I got Sharpie in my uh go check this out cool Sharpie there you go brother oops wrong side I like I like to say man you fancy okay so I do need to Mark the insertion depth onto the tubing okay and then oh c very appropriate fitting for me to have in my that's what I thought my van there so now it hits that line if push it all the way in that that fitting and the seal is being made by a rubber o-ring and some the it's holding onto the pipe with a stainless steel kind of grip ring so when this system came out how long's it been now 15 years ago maybe at least maybe even longer I always thought of it as a kind of transition cuz if you look at the bag not this one but some of these bags will say uh works with PEX copper CPVC and per which kind of looks like PEX pipe but it's slightly different so in other words this one fitting can work with all kinds of different pipes and so I thought of it as like an emergency or you know I got a cap something yep but today we're seeing Builders especially new construction new construction plumbers even using PTC in the whole house right they are it's common all over the world too so not as much in North America we're starting to see more of it look the fittings are a little bit more expensive than these other fittings they are so because it lowers the barrier of Entry right you don't need any real elaborate special training in order to uh assemble it and you don't need a expensive tool like you're going to see with some of the other ones right exactly and so it's it's pretty simple right the other thing is um look it hasn't been really accepted by all the Professionals in the industry you know skepticism these fittings carry all the same rating is the rest of them on the table pressure temperature working operating pressures things like that they are by all accounts maybe you could see the hesitation I don't love to admit it but they they meet all the same standards yeah right it's just a little bit easier it's a great product DIY I don't know personally if I would use this to Plum an entire house and here's why expensive yeah like the fittings themselves I do already own tools that allow me to use other sure fitting systems that are lower cost and just as reliable all right so uh the bottom line in this is two things i' I'd say uh we often call these shark bik fittings that's kind of the Kleenex brand they were the first to Market it is interesting that they have been innovating too though they have the Shar bike max out now that I saw uh when I was buying fittings and uh I'll leave that for another video but uh they've innovated a lot I think in general ptc's come a long ways but it's definitely not uh a common occurrence in new construction at you know you brought up I want I do want to backtrack a little bit you brought up early on with this discussion here the transition between different materials yeah that's actually how I use them uh without shame if I we see a lot of uh CPVC from the late 90s early 2000s new construction in the Twin Cities area and I it's not my favorite material to work with and I'm not stocking that that material on in my shop or on my van so transitioning over to something like PEX or even copper depending what we're doing to CPVC push to connect is fantastic for that makes a lot of sense yeah okay next up we've got uh expansion PEX or what we a lot of professionals are going to call PEX a Pex a uh there's some brand names out in the industry that a lot of people are familiar with upor uh formerly woro y okay okay so PEX a I've used a pexa a lot over the years a little more flexible uh a little bit easier to bend than let's say PEX b or PEX C this is PEX B still pretty bendable it's not like you can't bend it right right yep it's a it's a plastic product so I mean it's PEC it's polyethylene cross link it's you know flexible more flexible it's just how the it's the it's the ingredients that go into the the batch of cookies right you know it's how they make the the tubing itself okay so how does the fitting work on these expansions well the fitting is really neat so the a lot of people like a Pex a system because the fitting itself the ID is the same size as the ID of the tubing uh so meaning the inside diameter ID correct uh is going to be the exact same here whereas some of the other systems the fittings are smaller can you show us a little side by side comparison see if we can zoom in and show that yep so really what we're talking about with PEX a is the the the fitting size physical size of the fitting is larger so we have to stretch the tubing to fit on the outside of the fitting so in other words this is a half inch and this is a half inch but you can't insert that dry without doing expansion right and so this is a this is also called half inch but this is an insert fitting we're going to talk about these in a second but I can install that got it without stretching the tubing got it interesting so what makes PEX a or expansion PEX um a little bit different is that whole scenario where the two the fitting is larger than the it's it's competition which in theory allows a better flow path I mean yeah I I think they could prove that in a laboratory but there's not a lot out on the job site that's really noticeable to be completely honest yeah that makes sense with this system though we have to have we have additional Parts okay so with the push to connect we just slam it on we go mhm with the expansion you've got these rings that are made out of the same type of material as the tubing itself or similar material so on this package they're calling an expansion sleeve is that a common name yeah I probably just called it a ring I think that's just kind of automatic it's probably what's stuck in my head so you you slide that on the outside there's a stop on the end of this little okay so it can't go too far in other words it's stopping at that end yeah I can't slide it down to my hand it stops directly on the end of the cut tubing okay I can't put any further now again we have already talked about I can't slide this onto this F just simply doesn't fit yeah okay so what we need to do is we have a special tool now uh we used to do this manually that was a long time ago to be I'm maybe dating myself but now we've got power tools these have been around for a long time too so this is a Milwaukee uh PEX expander okay so it's got uh different size heads on the end of this cone head here that uh are specific to the size of the tubing we're working with but this is half inch and so I'm going to insert the end of this and press this button in a series of expansions this is going to enlarge the ID of the tubing so in other words you're sh you're sliding that in and we're we're expanding that ID of the tubing so go ahead and give it a try yeah real quick I'll do that it's going to it's I have a few seconds to work with it I can insert it onto the fitting and then the tubing starts to contract automatically on its own okay so in other words once you do that you're going to quickly drop that fitting in you got to have the fitting around don't don't expand go to your truck and grab it yeah exactly or otherwise you just have to re-expand yeah there let me give you a uh let's put a uh t on there uh as our fitting as if we were doing a transition here half inch okay let's put that fitting on [Music] okay there's a number of expansions you're supposed to do so you kind of count that in your head and then there's enough time to you know I didn't have to hurry right and I do have to kind of hold this here for a second if this were up in the air maybe hanging vertical I'd have to make sure that I hold this long enough so now already it's getting tighter now we're good it's not fully sealed there's a a specific amount of time that you have to uh wait before you can pressurize this that's maybe one of the downfalls uh much though not much however I live in a cold climate right so in the winter time when we're doing new construction or repair 10 deg in that house yeah so we might actually have to go get a heat gun to heat this up oh interesting if it is really cold this isn't an awesome system to work with without the I of adding heat maybe waiting a little longer before we pressure I don't have that problem in Texas there you don't well it's not a huge issue and like I said with the heat gun we can combat that but it's you know time is money so there's two things I think are interesting on here that that uh the non Plummer will maybe not notice without pointing to it check this out there's these little Nubs on the side and you'll notice when Eric put that fitting on it's stopped at those Nubs the other thing I'm seeing is it kind of looks like and maybe correct me if I'm wrong is there like a little Barb on that fitting almost like kind of like an arrow head on there yeah so there are yeah you are and actually there's more than one there there's some smaller ones too uh which matter because in the engineering of the system and the testing and the verification that this process holds and performs as needed there's actually multiple barbs on there so there's multiple sealing points that's cool okay so that's expansion I like that I've used the expansion a lot it's very popular uh we see it in potable systems we see it in heating systems we see it in all types of piping and we can get it in like now actually uh upor uh is making PEX a up to 3 in diameter so for like commercial applications pretty so that was half inch but obviously they make it in different sizes this look like this looks like a 1 in yep uh which is pretty common on on feed lines on my houses uh and 3/4 half uh and if I well this is probably a whole another video but I think think that a few of these manufacturers make 38 as well not nearly as they do not very common North America but it could be used for sure okay so PTC expansion what's next uh probably a little lesser known system but something I've used for about 25 years believe it or not it's PEX press press yeah so uh the brand or manufacturer that I use is VGA okay okay you probably you're familiar with Vega's products with their Metals the pro press y they invented right our press copper fittings um so press pecs uh not at all the same as the expansion fitting system totally different interesting so now we can use we could use the same type of tubing all the tubing diameters are the same maybe they're not the same you know material makeup as far as the ingredients but now instead of having to expand the pecs expansion M we could just insert the fitting right on the end and these fittings actually come with these nice stain steel rings already installed on them this is Vega system yep and now we use a tool uh a couple different types of tools so you've got this manually expanding tool like I've had this thing for like 25 years it looks old it is still working great it is yeah it is working great and this goes on that uh we clamp it down you got CL it okay so this is half inch uh real quick one one thing that I kind of like is they color code the sizes oh so the yellow is indicating half inch and blue must be 3/4 then yeah just make kind ofy and then my tool my/ in tool is yellow and my 3/4 tool is blue oh so this is actually corresponding to that this is actually a just a quick indicator that's nice it's nice I like that uh so this is simple so I can just push this on here like that okay and uh just so the camera can see you're noticing he's putting this right up against that yellow collar is that correct yeah so it's it's covering this entire stainless steel ring here inside of the jaws of the tool and it's really simple you just have to squeeze it doesn't take a ton of force and now what we've done as a permanent connection uh with the fitting inside the tubing we didn't have to expand it so now yeah you couldn't you're not going to pull that out uh I don't think it's even possible I've seen pressure tests and you know different type of dynamic tests where it's incredible the permanence basically of a fitting system like this so uh this fitting from is it VGA or VGA it's Vega this is V's fitting there's a lot of different manufacturers we actually have some here this is a more generic well maybe not generic it's aollo brand but this is the same thing these are separate sleeves correct yeah exactly I was just going to point that out so you can buy the fittings right so same type of fitting more or less uh it inserts into the tubing but then you would have to you would have to first push the the this like thimble ring on the end of it okay and it's got a stop on there too if you can see that guys stopping at the end of the pipe it does it's probably even hard to see with the camera but there's this tiny little hole in the end of it see that yeah yeah what's the hole for it's a visual indicator so I can see that the tubing I can see the tubing through that hole and so that I know it's made it all the way on got it uh the reason that's important is if you're cutting the tubing and you uh maybe you kind of uh oval the tubing maybe put it out around it might not be easy to put this on there maybe you're in a precarious position that visual indicator tells me the installer anybody that I've got that on there all the way which is important okay and then you in insert the fitting okay and we do the same process as we did before we use this over here we don't want to use it now oh yeah that's true no we got more we got more go ahead okay so yeah same thing uh manual press with this I do have to kind of this time you don't have a ring so you got you got to kind of line it up a little bit a little more to it yeah there's a little more to it that's interesting that's kind of a that is kind of a manufacturer's benefit to these vas I suspect that this individual system is probably less expensive than this wasn't it it would be but if you consider having to buy uh maybe you're buying in larger bulk pack 100 pack R yeah or even a thousand right big bag of these now you have to store these separate from the fittings that they're going to fit on right so now you've got these cases that have multiple bins multi you more inventory time is money it is it is you know I love the fact that uh with this system not to really pump up V too much here but it's nice because I grabb the fitting the Ring's already on it yeah even your least cost plumber is going to be1 bucks an hour and for a master plumber you're going to spend a couple hundred bucks an hour so do you really want them fumbling around and getting all kinds of fittings this in the end could be pretty valuable TimeWise yeah look this fitting doesn't do me any good without the the ring right mhm and vice versa so I can have all the Rings in the world if I don't have the fitting I need yeah we not doing any good so press inventory press uh real quick before we go so you saw me do two of them with the manual tool spin around forever I don't even really use this anymore I keep it on my van with two hands you got to have a little bit more you almost need a third hand with that thing right I mean maybe yeah especially when you get to the 3/4 and the 1 in it gets a lot harder right press it it does so I actually brought today with me just for to show you I don't have the press tool with me but you've seen me press copper you know this is a jaw that just goes in my copper press tool got it so it's it's a tool that's similar to this different head on there the Jaws go on there and it's got that hyd uh super action to clamp that down and then you can do it one handed too yeah so I can do it onehanded I'm pulling a trigger instead of manually operating uh a kind of press to too it is it's you know what it's about uh just wear and tear on your body yeah this is easier let the tool do the work that's right okay uh and then it also makes my press tool more versatile so that's we've got PTC expansion press now honestly we're going to talk finally in fourth we've got the most popular fitting system in the country North America I've been using this or I don't always use this system now but for years that's all I used starting in about the year 2000 yeah so I've been almost 25 years with uh mostly PEX in my houses right so PEX hits a scene uh kind of new construction in North America late '90s early 2000s it took a lot of uh companies to really jump on board right but like you said as a side note though PEX is not a new technology no I looked it up and I actually made some old videos about this PEX came to America in 1972 the year of my birth so uh you know PEX is the same age as I am it's 50 years plus in America it is it is I I I I guess what I meant by that it just really wasn't we weren't seeing it as a correct an installed product new construction replacing copper it took that long for for uh companies and there are some things that went into that that whole process but so this is this is what we call crimp okay so this is a copper ring it doesn't really look like copper it's made out of copper it looks black though yeah it is but it's I think it's an alloy technically but it is made out uh made out of copper mostly and this is going to in go on the outside of the tubing okay so similar to what we had on this guy with the crimp sleeve yeah but see we don't have a but now it's a loose ring W that's interesting it is so I personally don't have a ton of experience with this system uh when I started out in our area and we started using PCS I was still early on in my career at that time but when we started seeing PEX and installing it for new construction in the Twin Cities Market we really had like two main players and that was at the time woro right now upor now upor and then at that time still coming into the market was this German company that had bought a a a uh manufacturer in the United States so they could get into our market and they were called VGA got it okay so which are two dominant players today they are yeah and they're you know world class and and so are a lot of other manufacturers though so like this system is most commonly used with fittings that are made by two different companies in our industry um or I guess plumbers would recognize the two main companies that make what are those Brands Watts okay uh old Plumbing yep uh nib or I guess there's three nibco mhm and zern yeah all those names are a long time they have been they have been they make you know everything for everything Rel Plumbing related uh so these copper Rings like we said they slip onto the outside of the tubing you then insert the fitting again so now we're not expanding anything okay so just to just to uh for my own knowledge there is still a there is still a nipple on there that that prevents this from overdriving and and that tells you physically to stop but the ring doesn't have that so how do you know where the ring goes now so the ring you you there is about an eighth of an inch or so uh of tubing on the fitting side of the Ring okay and that that's just a visual okay so you have to visualize that and understand that uh there is training involved with this like they you know each of the fitting manufacturers will give you a manual show what need is needed but then there's a manual tool okay uh there are power tools available like I said I don't even have one but you've got some different tools here here's a manual press or crimp tool that does half inch and 3/4 all in the same tool all in the same tool so you got to hold that I'm to surprised it's actually my tool so this is so so this is actually why I don't love this system personally but it is like I said number one in the entire world or entire North America here' be my concern though you're working overhead oh shoot or I'm in a tight space under a cabinet or vanity or a wall maybe I'm making a repair and it does get cumbersome to get this positioned on there just right yeah and then I have to kind of look at it there it does move around see I'm not any good at this I'm not going to lie to you that's all right oh I'm probably not helping as your pmer Apprentice well I told you I'm kind of I'm not very good at this and then there's a lot more for actually was his Apprentice for a day by the way okay so we've made the joint now see I'm not super enthusiastic about the fact that there's not a lot of tubing right there but I'm guessing that this is going to hold it's probably going to be watertight but you would have liked to seen a little bit more tubing there a little just you know about an eigh of yourself yeah um it ain't coming off though is it yeah yeah you know the old ad is you can shake it a few times and say that ain't going nowhere but so in your opinion why is this the most popular system in America and I I'm guessing I think I know the answer I think it's just inexpensive yeah it's cost right it is uh it's it's proven reliable there's no doubt about that uh and so cost drives a lot of sure Innovation and you know but speed of the other ones maybe is kind of the the uh the what makes it and maybe slightly more Rel not reliable per se but slightly less prone to human error human error is a huge thing so I've made some uh reluctantly I I'll admit this I've made some mistakes on installs when I did new construction years ago everyone asked uh where I didn't press one side of a fit oh maybe and it and believe it or not I've seen situations where you can put this stuff together and under the just the most perfect circumstances you can even do like a a pressure test it wouldn't blow off and it didn't blow off it didn't you know until they moved in uh well until yeah and then the ceiling of the basement caved you know fell onto the floor that kind of thing it's funny that you say that I have a buddy who owns a big Plumbing uh company in town and he moved to expansion for that reason cuz you can't accidentally dry fit it you have to expand it and and pop it in yeah so that's why he likes this that's exactly why I moved to that about 15 years ago worked with it for about 10 12 years and then there was supply chain stuff I ended up moving back to this but you know I'm not doing new construction anymore I'm not doing the same amount of fittings that I used to you still have to pay attention you can still dry fit things it's not the best uh scenario but so this is uh we're not done though with this okay okay so you have to crimp it but wait there's more yeah but wait there's more so there's actually a tool we don't have it with us today but it's kind of along the same lines as marking the depth of the tubing for your push to connect there's a noo go gauge so it slides over the outside of that copper ring got okay so if it doesn't slide on you know uh nicely and it fits snugly then we have to look at the calibration of the tool maybe the tool was bad maybe we were weren't down there Square it didn't get all the way jammed tight yep uh whereas uh you know something needed calibrated so it might not that's interesting there's a go noo on that ring because that ring is moving I don't know a slight half a millimeter or whatever the dimension is yeah so you've actually taken the the ring and you've changed its diameter got it okay but again this is the most popular fitting system by sales volume in the industry fascinating okay I got I got one quick question for you this is kind of random but when I was buying some parts for this video at the Home Center I saw that there's a pro crimp ring and a standard crimp ring I don't if you can see that and the only difference is the standard crimp ring looks like a wet ring as you called it which I like that example the pro version has a little plastic nub on there what is this what is this plastic nub do and why why is this a pro version well it's interesting they call it a pro version I thought it was a little more DIY but so uh just in all fairness I showed it once already I'll put the the ring on the end of the tubing and it can just kind of drop on there right okay so we already saw in my my example that you can position the ring in kind of the wrong spot you want that spacing this little red sleeve this pro version that's a stop ah and actually like that I like that that makes sense I would use that if I was using this system probably cost more it probably cost more that's true I didn't even look at the price on those packages but it's an extra Buck or something yeah who knows you know but actually that's in my opinion a good feature I'm not sure what happens to the plastic it probably kind of spits off let's put one on see we have an extra uh well well we have the other here here there you go here we go where's our cutter here we had a cutter up here yeah where do what did we do with that what I do the two here it is okay so we'll just cut this one off right my really basic tube cutter I'm embarrassed by my tools Eric I wouldn't be they're effective they work what okay what am I doing here so I'm going to take this Pro ring and I'm going to put on the end of the red too I'm going to take that fitting we used for the last example and I'm going to insert it okay same process but I'm not having to hold that kind which probably makes it easier yeah that's a good thing yeah let's see here if I can just do this all by myself man I am not coordinated today I mean it's it's not easy and honestly it's not I'm not used to I'm I'm really not yeah you're going to have hold the way for you look Eric's good at upor and veg I make a pretty good plumbers assistant be honest I always said I wanted to be a plumber if I wasn't going to be a builder did it stay yeah the little but the little red thing yeah the red thing didn't move just the uh copper did and you're not going to be able to see this on camera but if you were if you had the amazing eagle eyes that I have there's a pinch point it looks like on here uh there is you can kind of see there there is a there is an action and there's a difference then you got to really zoom in on the light I can't imagine the camera's going to going to see that yeah there's a little Ridge where the two uh sides of the tool meet yep so that that Ridge is indented on there and you can see that and now it's not going anywhere so also interesting to note that these are two different fitting systems but the same fitting yeah two different joining or joining systems me yeah so the fitting is similar uh there are some slight manufacturing differences from one brand to the next but the idea is this there's a very small barbs many of them on the on the fitting itself and then the pressing action from the the tool and either the stainless steel or the copper will seal against those very slight barbs let's say got it on the fitting but yeah one fit into the next there's not a whole lot of difference which brings us to the last joining system number five what do we got number five so this is uh also very popular probably rivaling and numbers the uh crimp but we call this pinch okay and so these are stainless steel clamps and are there any brand names on these pinch that you know of yeah so early on I believe the manufacturer's name was oder and and that's right here on this package which is interesting and they're calling it a clamp but there's that oder on there so I wonder if I wonder if that was maybe the uh inventor or the patent holder or something it could be you know I didn't do a lot of research on that I think it's either the manufacturer or somebody who who engineered the system maybe the actual engineer y but it's an oder clamp or a pinch clamp and that uses the same type of fittings okay same insert into the um and it's interesting that there's also a pinch clamp and a pro pinch clamp from a different manufacturer too nope I think we're back to that uh maybe the pro maybe allows it to stop on the tubing yeah I'm we're making guesses now I'm going to try that we're going to look at the pro okay okay so there's the pro one yeah so this actually has a little arrow telling us which direction oh interesting yeah to insert it so it'll stop and only insert so far onto the tubing and just like the other one this one doesn't have this so This you'd have to be a little bit more uh careful yeah because it will go all anywhere on the tubing and we want to have that that about that eth inch spacing or so y between the fitting and the clamp itself now this I'll be honest with you I was a little fumbly with this one I'm probably more so with this one because well you have to so this Tool uh again here let's do it so the camera can see you if you can if you see this small opening on the end Yep this tool fits onto that stainless steel clamp and it takes quite a bit of force to be honest with you oh gosh yeah and then once I get to the end of it the tool will release and you see how it yeah so you went from here let me show the original diameter to that so it went from this to this it pinched it quite a bit it kind of feels like it's a zip tie Almost Doesn't it that great yeah like a zip yeah exactly that's a pretty good explanation I'd say um what's happening is is there's some some Hooks and Slots on that stainless steel uh pinch clamp and they're that H those hooks are holding on uh and when you pinch that it's it's uh decreasing the diameter of the the ring got it does that make sense yeah um and again the pro model the only difference is there's a little connection here which when you slide it on stops it from going down and it's holding onto the pipe right there yeah which is kind of cool and again it's kind of funny they call that a pro model but that makes a lot of sense for somebody doing DIY to have that but honestly I I would say that's if you own a plumbing company these would be a great one to have for your crew it actually does make it look like or does look like it's easier to install mhm for sure I don't have a lot of experience with these I've actually got more probably more experience with um just various failures across all of these and it seems that these their um maybe their weak point is the clamp separating and then not now it's no longer holding pressure against the fitting so when I was a production Builder uh prior to starting my custom Building Company from 2000ish to 2005 uh we did about 150 homes a year and they were all pinch okay uh and I have only one example and I was the warranty department manager for a while I can only think of one time that we ever had a fitting failure we had one house one time of the several hundred we built during that time that had one fitting failure that that seemed like it was plumber error uh on the fitting install a lot of times s that's what it comes down to is the installation error uh maybe tools were out of calibration look people make mistakes too right and maybe they just go on notice for a good while this is mechan this is like a mechanical clamp though just kind of how it's built yep you lose that whole the mechanics of it when you go to that copper ring y that's just a solid ring right no hooks and Barbs and things like that uh same with these stainless steel press uh Rings yep right or sleeves uh same situation and really these are doing all the same thing yeah they're just pressing on the outside of the tubing onto the barbs of the fitting that's where that seal is those little barbs on the fitting itself yeah so let's wrap up the video Eric for plumber advice uh it seems to me like you've had really good success with the Press style and in particular VGA which has those pre-installed yep uh you and I both have had good success with the expans expion absolutely style uh and it's interesting to note that a lot of Manufacturers are coming out with PTC I do see I suspect in the not too distant future uh we're going to see more and more new homes with PTC in them uh and part of that is because it's a toolless system it's very quick and easy to learn uh and we want more and more young people to come into our trade speaking of which I mentioned earlier in the video I got to spend a day with Eric as his apprentice and that is a series called talking trades uh which by time this airs we'll have at least one or two of those episodes on YouTube but on the build show.com you can see all three episodes with Eric and I and our pre-episode with Mike and Sherry Holmes talking about this great need that we have in the industry and the incredible opportunity especially in the plumbing trade that Eric and I talked about but later on in the series we're going to visit with some other trades men and women so go out to the build show.com check that out in the meantime go follow Eric's Instagram which is mechan mechanical Hub and go check out his other videos on the build show.com great summary today brother it was a really fun video for really enjoyed seeing these and thinking about these on my job site in the end all of these systems uh are very reliable and very good systems I've used uh pretty much everything on a house that I built at some time in my past uh really without incident I can think of only that one issue uh with pinch years ago but that honestly I would still Plum a house with that today it doesn't that doesn't that one issue doesn't uh foil me from thinking I would use that on the other hand there are a couple that I think are a little bit better in the long run uh Eric and I have some other interesting stuff coming up so stay tuned in the meantime follow us on Tik Tok or Instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the build show [Music]

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