Pex Plumbing: How To; Rough in Plumbing Supply for Shower

all right guys back here in the shower making some good progress got everything framed out and i'm doing the rough plumbing here for the water supply so i wanted to show you how to do that um off camera i kind of got everything ran nothing is tightened down these are all loose and just quote unquote dry fitted so what you're going to have in a shower is a mixer valve that's going to have your input for your hot your input for your cold and then your output for your hot okay so if you just have a shower head one single shower head in your shower this will go straight up the wall into your shower head like that right there if you have a tub you have another output here that would go down to the tub obviously i'm not going to put a tub spout in the shower so i'm not i got that capped off one quick side note is in the instructions i saw that if you are gonna run this for a tub spout you can't use pex you're supposed to use copper soldered copper so just keep that in mind so in my case i don't have just a shower head i have boom right here so i have a handheld shower here's our normal shower head and then i'm gonna have a rain shower head so this is what's called a diverter so our water supply goes out into the diverter and then from the diverter it's going to go out to each location where where water will come out into the shower so the normal one is for the shower head which i just showed you right here this side is going to go to the handheld which is actually going to be on the opposite side right here and there will be a kind of a bar on the wall here with the the shower head that clips to it you can pull off and it's got the hose and then this side is going to go to the rain shower head which is all the way up here so these are really easy to do if you use the pex system okay these valves that i got have the threaded adapters so you just have to find the half inch threaded piece the half inch thread to pex adapter and that's it if you look here all you do is you have your half inch thread to pex and then you put your pex on and then run it from there these little things these little things clamp on and hold it nice and solid and watertight it's very very easy to do so i highly recommend using the pex system um if you're going to do copper solder copper you know you may want to hire a plumber to do that because you don't want to do that wrong and have it leak pecs is pretty much foolproof if you follow the basic instructions some of those instructions include making sure you have a nice flush cut on the end so it sits fl flush against the fitting you put your joiner here about a 16th or an eighth in from the end so you don't want it you don't want it all the way to the end you want it off just a little bit like that and then you squeeze it down once and i think some people recommend you squeeze it down twice just for good measure so you do that on every single joint all the way around that's what i'm gonna do next is get everything tightened down okay so just to show you how easy this is i left these two undone for these two hoses so i'm going to connect these here and i'll show you how easy that is you have your cutters here for this one i'm going to have it come down right here and then i'm going to elbow over and we'll connect it like that so what i'll do i'm going to cut it about there nice and straight i'm actually going to take that cut off and put it on here grab an elbow let me get one here anytime you put a an elbow or or any kind of connection on always just put the ring on first just so you don't forget ring on elbow on so what you're looking at here is cutting this pipe so it comes up to the end of this fitting and the whole piece is covered right here good i gotta get a couple of rings here there there there that's it okay so let's do this one real quick one ring two put that on there put our elbow in ring here and then connect our elbow that's it easy as that like i said you cannot it's it's hard to mess up the pecs stuff so the the only important thing is to make sure there's a little gap between the end of the pecs and where you crimp the ring so i've got the crimper here this is what it is right here and you'll crimp down till it clicks so let's do let's do this one right here put it around [Applause] and do it twice okay let's do this one here too while we're at it good good there we go this piece is done so just gotta go crimp all the connections and that's it i'll show you what it looks like when it's all done all right guys so there it is all the joints are crimped up to the shower head there's a couple of corners in there you can see that one right there t there come around this one goes to the rain shower head this one goes down to the handheld the last thing i need to do is use these clips here just put it around the for example you put it around the pipe and then just hammer that nail in i have a couple in already right there and right there but anywhere that the pipe is loose you want to put those in to keep it from moving because sometimes with water pressure as you turn it on and off you can get shaky in the pipes and you could hear that stuff in the wall and it's a more of a nuisance than anything it won't affect the performance but it's important to get those pipes tied down sometimes you can get friction rubbing with the pipes like against the wood or against other material it's running against so it's important to get those pipes secured down and we are done guys the rough-in is all completed we got everything secured where it was loose all the way up even across the rafters up here and then down here so we're good to go so stay tuned for the next step which is gonna be i think starting the cement board around the whole shower thanks for watching we'll see in the next one

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Length: 9min 31sec (571 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 27 2020