REPLACING WATER MAIN SHUT OFF VALVES

[Music] howdy folks welcome to plumbing with tim today we're heading beach side to an oceanfront condo building uh that needs all their water main shutoffs replaced in the building there's multiple buildings out here we're just working on one today and i think there's 12 of them so this ought to be fun let's go all right so we've arrived uh it's a busy little road right on the ocean here across the street from the ocean let's see what we're working with just here see there's one there and one there one's for upstairs once we're downstairs and we got 12 of these i don't know if we're going to get them all done today got the meter cut off let's start draining water okay being on the ocean and stuff everything rots so they painted these pipes to try to protect them we're going to have to scrape those things off so we can get a good cut and stuff is hot out here we're working right on the sun 9 o'clock in the morning it's quite loud too all the traffic try to get some of this paint off here with my channel locks i'll go ahead and cut these all out cut out but look it's just all full of water and stuff i think i'm fighting that for a while so the only thing i have on me unless i hook up some sort of shop back is a supply line and i start blowing this out okay [Music] these are the replacement valves they are three-quarter inch brass made by wolverine brass however we're going to remove these handles because it's beachside and we've got special ones made for wolverine brass stainless steel so they're going to hold up better over the salt air and stuff water's back so we're gonna have to blow them out and quickly at least get our valve on before we make our connection it's only a way to do it we're gonna be fighting it the whole time all right it's a race of time here and get that valve on before that water starts so we beat the water now i got only got 11 more of these tie that together with a slip coupling this will be done [Music] three three-quarter inch slip coupling let's get that cleaned up and it is cooking out here brightness on let's get some flux on this little pre-measured piece that i've already cleaned slide that slip coupling right in there all the way [Music] give it a go tight fit okay now we gotta try to get that on the other end [Music] do well we got it and that's why i left this side open because they're connected together and i kept blowing water out of here but that solder joint took we're good now only 11 more to go hey that's all the time we got for this one we got rained out just letting you know we got all those valves in by 2 30 the afternoon uh one thing i did want to reiterate on is the fact that being on the beach and stuff you seen i had to change the handles out put stainless steel ones in we turned everything on just nick of time before the storms hit and we had no leaks we actually had another plumber come by and help us out so we get it done a little quicker thanks got any questions leave them down below and don't forget to subscribe until next time it's been plumbing with tim keep on

Channel: PLUMBING WITH TIM

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Keywords: REPLACING WATER MAIN SHUT OFF, plumbing with tim, wolverine brass

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Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020