How to Fix Frozen Pipes! - Can JerryRig-ing go too far?
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2021
- Today we repair some very inconveniently placed water lines inside my house. The previous owners, during their remodel, must have put these water lines through the air intake vent. Which basically means our water pipes were left outside, uninsulated in freezing weather. This is not a good thing. So its time to JerryRig their JerryRig with our own JerryRig. Sounds safe.
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Finally he remembered the password of his second channel
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I KNOW RIGHT??? lol
"If we jerryrig their jerryrig with a slightly better jerryring then we should come out on top"
I saw your comment exactly when he said that
I'm stealing it, hopefully I'll run into a situation created by some Jerryrigger somewhere. It'll be my lightbulb moment..lol
What if the dude who did the remodel was named Jerry...
The Jerryrig cancels out and it returns to normal.
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Too late now, but I might have thought about putting some 1-2" styrofoam insulation inside that air intake along the floor to maybe help your kitchen floor not have a cold spot.
It looks like that duct matches the joist bay dimensions exactly... because why not? What knucklehead did that I wonder?
Edit: actually on closer review it looks like the "duct" is just the joist bay with sheet metal on the bottom...
@@zannanger8147 Welcome to 80s construction, would you like cardboard sheathing?
Zack works, talk and record at the same time, while in a step, what a man
dont hold back on uploading these kinds of videos, they're fun!
So there's a vent right under your floor, with little to no insulation to your floor with HOT AND COLD water lines running across it... America never fails to amaze me.
Was thinking the same. /Swede
@@ajbp95 and then they go and Artex the ceiling like it's 1986 😂 (it still is 1986 is large parts of America)
according to code, that ain't supposed to be that way but Americans are more about rebellion than some other countries as their inception proves haha
@@TheDanielShepherd I'm assuming you're from the UK? Are most new ceilings just flat? What material is used?
@@TheArtificiallyIntelligent Yes - they're just skimmed perfectly flat with plaster and then painted.
Great job Zack and Riley. Hope to hear an update with good news in the spring.
The only guy that doesn't need any mechanic to repair anything for him, he does everything, if your kids becomes like you, and your grand kids, it's gonna be a perfect family to can survive everywhere 👍🏾
really like these "other kind" of videos you are doing, like this and the garden
New video after almost 5 months 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
First video on this channel of 2021 awesome! Well done!
Good thing it's PEX, that made your job a lot easier. Kind of crazy that they'd drill right through an air intake like that though. Normally high efficiency heaters use PVC pipes for air intakes and exhaust.
I've also never seen a finished basement insulated from the rest of the house. Unless it's one heated from a separate heating system like a radiant floor heater.
0:33 My thought as a German: Of course pipes freeze - behind cardboard walls...
How you are doing fellow German
@@MrBlackFiction Doing fine, How about you?
Another fellow german here
I‘m still of the impression that solid brick construction is better 😂
Ja hatte genau denselben Gedanken
Great video! I'm going to be working with PEX for the first time as well this week for a basement laundry room remodel.
For someone living in a colder climate, cutting corners on a remodel like this is absolutely ridiculous. About a foot's length of pipe in my parents house runs uninsulated but behind a thick leca block wall, and that freezes at very low temperatures (~0 F), and that was considered a big mistake here.
I can relate, I'm rebuilding my future house right now, no heating installed, living 3 hour away and watching the weather forecast hoping it won't get below zero inside the house.
we have a seasonal cottage that was once all copper line. when it wasn't drained properly in the fall, we always had burst copper lines in the spring when we opened it up for the season.
Replaced everything with pex and never had an issue. It will freeze, but expands enough to not burst.
More videos like this please. Like...a couple thousand percent more videos like this.
The way american houses are constructed is hilarious.😂
Norwegian houses isn't simular at all
@@AArZAAA No, they are not
@@HorizonFarming oh how?
@@charliemccloskey8358 Basically everything. Houses in Norway are tougher, they never blow away, the dont rott in at least 40 years and they are better insulater, to handle the extreme cold. And the plumbing will never leak. It is a system called "Rør-i-Rør", if there's ever a leak, the water will just run out to a drain, and not inside thd wall.
@@HorizonFarming I’m in Canada (-30 in the winter) and mine seems more like his 😂
I would have just given the pipes a sweater and called it fixed
This is the true jerryrig way.
Well done man
dang, they joy of owning a house. So much fun to find all the little surprises lol.
I actually like these better than the phone ones. Inspiring to those wanting to fix stuff themselves but have no idea of the process.
Those clamps work really good. They are what I used in my house when I built it. What I did was ran all of my pipes in the attic and there’s no brakes in the pipe only a beginning and a end. No leaks.
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Have you considered converting to a higher efficiency furnace and just sealing off the envelope of the home? Not only is it easier for the furnace in terms of rust but it spares you the wet filters if it rains and you have it on.
Careful running pipes that close to ceiling. They could be easily punctured by drywall screws. They make nail plates when pipes and wires are close to walls.
Pet is fairly burst resistant
Who is going to put ANYTHING in there ceiling... like I've never seen any screws in a ceiling
@@ipant1056 this things are like thing they regulate so they dont happen. Even when the chances are .00001% of you puting a scre trought that specific part
I think he would take note of where the pipes are before they screw the gyprock in
You're an awesome guy jerry you do good Diy Stuff and you explain stuff In details keep it up Hope U reach 1M
Wow this is a great video Idea!! Super important imformation!!
Awesome, great video. I didn't had to do this repair but it was very informative videos thanks alot Jerry you awesome.
well done... excellent learning for all of us... thanks for the share
You didn't need to use that fancy drill, just some No More Nails adhesive as the patch is not structural.
Jerry also didn't mix and thin the mud, never use ready mix mud direct from the bucket except to pre-fill panel gaps.
Dont forget to clean the cieling fan blades on the top side.
The main thing is wife approval, because happy wife happy life, you did a great job of fixing the situation, I have my older brother and his family living in Salt Lake City, beautiful place 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘But sending the love from Melbourne Australia, stay safe guys
Nothing more exciting than finding a solution to a problem.
Jerryrig their Jerryrig really got me 😁
oh i hate knocking down dry walls. It always left the place dusty for months. Even we cleaned up after the job, every few days, we could still see a very thin layer on furniture, especially dark color furniture.
Such beautiful house! In Turkey we usually live in apartments which hosts dozens of people under same roof. And there is a very very big noise pollution problem which we can't solve.
Awsome video!
You can get a 90deg tool that can be use for tight access areas, it has 10mm chuck so you can drill, drive, sand etc
That design you have fails at speed and has limit torque so be careful , thanks for the video from Wales 🏴 in the Uk
It deep froze in Texas earlier this year. It wasn't the PEX that failed but the actual couplings that don't expand when frozen.
As a general contractor watching this is hilarious
You did an ok job. I don’t know the codes in your area but be careful when it comes time to resell your house. Since you showed us how you did your “magic trick” repair plumbing job.
You should isolate the duct so the kitchen floor temp is the same everywhere
You should do more DIY videos for this channel. So nice...
His eyes when the water started falling:
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Love it 😂
that 90 degrees tool is very helpful, i have that same in work.. :D just from milwaukee.
For future reference you can use a nap paint roller to get that same texture in your mud. Just dip the roller into the mud (preferably a large 5 gallon bucket) and spread it on. Works a lot faster. Then you could knock it down as needed to match your ceiling.
I've never seen that type of vent for a furnace. Is this the combustion air the furnace is pulling in?
I really respect the proactivity.
Might want to recheck the pipes for leaks in the summer, since metal expands from heat.
Jerry "DIY" Rig the tool man! 😁
If you have frozen pipes again, they sell pipe insulation wrap that you can plug into an outlet and it turns on when it detects a temp below freezing and it keeps the pipe just warm enough to the water inside doesn't freeze.
Wow I can't believe they just drilled holes through all that venting -- gas line included. Incredible.
That isn't a proper, to code vent. I can't believe they tried to pretend a typical joist space could be used as a combustion air intake.
Primer before the texture! it helps it dry uniformly so you don't see the joint lines. Also you should have wrapped the cold line in contact with that metal duct. It might not be affected at 32, but it still might at 10.
7:31 Those oscillating saws are awesome to have around.
4:25 the look on your face is priceless!
Great job.... 👍
Hats off dude
Why didn't you install a proper furnace air intake? This way your cold spot in the floor would be fixed too??
that wouldn't be much of a JerryRig at that point
Hot tip, when turning your water on, do it even slower than you are. It prevents a sudden rush of pressure, which is bad for the fixtures, and usually whatever faucet is closest to the valve takes a real pounding and can ruin it.
In Finland we use defrost cables on waterlines witch tend to freeze. And of course we use insulation inside our walls
You can use pliers to squeeze the ring slightly to hold it in place before using the crimpers.
I need to patch a hole in our ceiling so, thanks for the tutorial! :)
Here's a handy tip for mixing mud in the future, add a little dish soap! Will give amazing results!
this stuff is so fun
I'm not sure if this is the same in US-houses, but where I live this wrap between the wood and the free space, where you put the pink stuff in, should be airtight. so the condensation stays outside the wood and will not rotten long term.
Wish we had crimping in the UK. Closest we have is JG pushfit. Good but not as simple as these. But then I wonder how reversible crimping is.
Zack is the type of guy who throws away the instruction manual
Amazing what people do without thinking it through. The house we live in now had two shoulder height shower heads (I’m 5’10”). 🧐
The face, when the water spilled out of the blue pipe, was hilarious.
Great video. The only suggestion I have is that you did a cut-erooski when you should have done a cut-eroni @ 4:08.
Quick suggestion , for a added freeze protection, at the area inside of the ductwork now above the lines. How about lining that area with a foam kitchen floor mat . Pre-cut and Pre-sprayed with 3m adhesive. Put it above your pipes like a sticker inside of your vent. Application is probably going to go down like putting a pizza in a oven with a or.
Boom I just G.R your fix....
Its called artechs for the ceilling textures its used on walls and cellings
Yo there's this guy that runs this channel called jerryrigeverything and he looks and sounds just like you.
WHAT?!
@@JerryRigEverything wait, yall should do a colab together, that would be AMAZING 🤣
@@JerryRigEverything might be your long loss brother he look just exactly like you! 🤣
Must be a clone
Hey, I thought that 😂😂😉
Just when. You think the Damage wasn't enough. He destroys more celings for more jerryriging!! I approve
I have that angle bit but mines is from Milwaukee. Life saver
I know I'm late to the party but you might want to consider putting metal to block nails & screws from hitting the pipes. I'm not a plumber so I don't know code for that but I have watched a few remodel TV shows & if waterpipes are close enough to worry about screws or nails you put some metal in to protect it.
Looks like a good repair, might need to clean your intake out?
Jerry, for texturing, using a medium texture paint is the quickest option for you instead of working on the putty...
How did you even find out about the original pipe condition at the first time? I would never have thought about it being run incorrectly.
Hey Zack! When I was watching your last video I saw a hummer vehicle . Is it yours? I also saw it in the video which the Tv’s.
If that's 10" osb ijoist, then I probably would have just run 6" pvc ducting pipe from the outside to the furnace. The only real jerry rig would be bringing up the pex so the pipe can travel underneath. Put some insulation around the pex and around the ducting at the entrance to the house. That takes care of the cold floor problem too.
I want more videos on this channel
Cool house
Aaayyyyooo Wtf a second channel 🤯
time to call Holmes Inspection...
wonder if there are other water lines or hvac problems in the house...
Didnt you get the go no go tool? might have been helpful instead of pulling to check if it is properly sealed.
That mesh tape also acts like a skeleton to so the mud doesn’t crack that the joints
The good tho g about pex is that if it does freeze it expands more then enough b4 it actually breaks its way better then pvc
So relatable, swiftly walking back into the room after turning the water back on. lmao...... I've done this countless times...
Bravo!
Nice video
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All we need is a jerryrigeverything in our house
just casually break the ceiling, no big deal
Your furnace draws in cold air from outside? Is this where your air filers are?
Welcome to JerryRig Your House" with you host Zac. Next week how to make a bead door.
Next video..
Durability test on this pipe can it survive 🤔
Zack your lever valve for the water shutoff for your house should be plumbed in so that if the lever falls it should fall in the off position, good for safety.
Residential Hvac code allows you to put pipes through duct work BUT you need to insulate them VERY well to keep this thing from happening