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With that shallow trench, you might consider putting the PEX in PVC pipe to keep errant shovels from cutting the PEX lines. Retrofit a guard by cutting a piece of pipe lengthwise.
I used two frost proof spigots that way it can be easily disconnected and drained, can be multi purposes for other things besides the shower as well, and doesn’t look like such a hack job visually from outside the house
Thinking of doing this to rinse off from my pool. But just going to hook it up to a propane on demand tank in a box on a pole. Or just attach it to the outside wall of shower.
Another intresting project from Mrs Wilkerson. Intresting because : Very good explanations Just says what needs to be sayed Good filming I recomend this DIY channel Thumb up from France Take care and stay safe .
I see a tiny problem. To drain the lines, you turn off the water underneath the sink, open the drain valves and turn on the shower. This will drain the lines going to the shower, but not the lines coming from the inside. You need to install valves inside the sink vanity to let air into those lines for drainage.
I think she can drain the line coming from house by opening the master bathroom faucet after shutting off master lines in house for cold and hot lines?
@@joonasfi the shot off valves are not arranged as you think. The house supply would have to be off to vent from the sink. A better solution would be a extra valve in the shower branch that could be used to blow air through the lines.
April - I enjoy your videos. As a Canadian, I would include a blowout port so that you could use compressed air to blow out lines for winter. Great job!
I'm very impressed how much you've grown as a contractor and a channel! Really impressive work. I watch your stuff all the time. I'm sure you saw the other comments about the PEX not being UV resistant. I just learned this myself this year. It would make a good video showing how to correct that!
I have yet to be 'un-impressed'....keep up the excellent work. I love all your videos and have used many of the things you have shown,taught and done yourself. Thanks from Virginia. Hal
@@AprilWilkerson why do you only reply to praise comments instead of one's that tell you what you did wrong. Only replies to the comments that say your so wonderful 👏
Might want to consider adding a backflow preventer on the cold water valve to prevent tainted water from getting into you houses drinking water. Just a thought. Nice video .. thanks for sharing a lot of great idea's.
Great video, thank you. Personally I would have done it all in copper pipe, copper fittings and lagged it all. A soldered copper joint is less likely to leak them some of crimp pex fittings, well from experience anyways.
Great job April, this is such great information and step by step instructions that anyone can follow. We just became aware of your channel and love what you're doing!
Another comment in the UV parade. A couple of years ago I replaced my pipes with PEX from the meter to the house, switched to iron pipe where I came out of the ground and into the house then switched back to PEX inside the house. Outdoor utility sink got plumbed with iron pipe then went back underground and switched back to PEX for the backyard, hose bibs came above ground with iron pipe. I've got no UV worries. I think just a box (maybe galvanized steel?) would enough to protect your exposed PEX. UV is the only drawback I know of with PEX. Wish I had seen your PEX crimping tips 2 years ago, would have used a lot less profanity. Jim Y
@2:20 "should it ever freeze in Texas".... Now that's funny! Great video, really like your content... just wish I had sponsors for my home projects (other than my bank account) :-P
You really need to build a cover box to the ground at the house and insulate the pipe from the ground to the shower faucet to keep it from freezing 👍 awesome build tho.
That's the purpose of the shut offs in the house and box in the ground. To turn the water off and drain it in the rare event of a freeze in that part of Texas.
Really want UV protection for the PEX, and where I live it seems better to have thick insulation for freeze protection, perhaps heat tape (does that work for PEX? Maybe on an outer galvanized protector?). I'd go deeper with the trench and put cheap concrete paver blocks and surveyor's tape over the pipes. First person doing e.g. landscaping who chunks their shovel into the ground...
So as a plumber this is very good but I noticed you backed off the Teflon when you were adjusting the shower head now there's a chance that can leak since you turned it anticlockwise and you should of ran copper on the outside till you went underground then go to pex or are you going to be covering the pipes up the wall up because pex doesn't go well in uv
The first time when you said , “should it ever freeze here in Texas” made me laugh so hard. I think last February just seems like a bad nightmare for all of us now. Couldn’t have been real. Great tip on Solidworks. I was not aware of this and will definitely pull the trigger on it.
I like your "Freeze Test" April! Here in Michigan I definitely have to be concerned about colder temps. I'm surprised PEX did not break too. Very Interesting Video!!!
No love for PEX A, huh? PEX B is what you’re using (uses the crimp-type fittings). PEX A uses expansion fittings and is supposed to be even slightly better than PEX B at freeze resiliency. Either way, as others said, PEX degrades with UV, so it should be covered there above ground. Running the PEX bare below grade also makes me pretty nervous, so I’d recommend others consider additional protection for the PEX if running it below grade like this. I also think part of what makes PEX great is that you don’t need to do so many fittings which introduce bottlenecks and also (more importantly) opportunities for leaks. While 90 degree corners and vertical/horizontal runs like you did under the sink look nice, it creates more effort and introduces unnecessary failure points 🤷♂️
I use Pex A...and the UV rating on for it is even less than Pex B. :). I've even used it as the main 3/4" water supply line from the meter, but I sleeve it in 2" PVC. If the supply line ever needed to be replaced, it could be slid into the 2" PVC without digging.
Aw thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Starting out, I didn't know anything but built upon my confidence, experience and tool accumulation. I bought my first tools from yard sales and pawn shops, buying only the tool I needed, then saving for the next one. I learning from my mistakes along the way but if I can do it, anyone can. Enjoy the build. Thanks for watching.
My Mom doesn't want hot water. She only uses it during the hot Texas summers after working out on the property. She feels the cold well water is refreshing when all yucky. Thanks for watching.
There are more than 2 types of crimping with pex. Check out uponor or wirsbo, Aquapex ect. The actual "crimp" ring is made from the same material as the pipe and gets stretched open before install
Beautiful! The only thing I would have done is put another wall on the outside right that comes back to the center of the front pad in order to add a little more privacy. My girls would require that. ;)
the valves you used are very fragile if your water is hard (limestone) then they will freeze and it will be very difficult to operate and if the handles are plastic they don't age well and brake very easily.
So I hate to bother, but you’re my favorite diyer and I was wondering if you could make a video on sink and bath plumbing basics?? You’re one of the main UA-camrs I watch to train myself at my maintenance manager job hana
Great project - I am curious if you've run into any issues since the build? Would you do anything differently if you did this again? Is it to code/ legal plumbing to "T" into the plumbing under the sink? thanks!
April as a carpenter head thanks for giving me this plumbing head project a great outdoors shower ; I'd add two things a privacy gate & a PVC shed roof. Sweet shower I may use this one for my shower, out on the range, & it's a great idea outside a sauna;👍. Best of blessings to you and all your friends 😘 David
That looks awesome April. I would love to have something like that but unfortunately it wouldn’t be able to be used for half of the year since I live in Vermont lol. Another great project.
Oh my! Yes, in Texas it can practically be used year around, especially with having hot water. My folk's only wanted the cold well water so only uses theirs in hot summer months. Thanks for watching.
This is legit. Personally I would be okay with only the cold side from an outdoor spigot. If I'm showering outside it's from working outside on a hot day and don't mind cold water. If this for a shower intended to compliment a pool then both would be nice.
That's precisely why my folks only wanted the cold water. It wouldn't be used in colder weather but after a hot day working on the property it feels so refreshing! Thanks for watching.
Did you or could you tell us what shower head, shower handle, and shower equipment you used. We have been buying the outside shower whole silver unit and they are cheap and break easy,
I could be wrong, but I think pex will degrade when exposed to sunlight for long periods. I live in CA and some of my plumbing and my water heater are outside under a covered porch. I had a contractor replace a broken line and I asked about having pex installed because I thought it might be cheaper and faster. He said since it was exposed to UV, pex couldn't be used, so we went with copper instead (original pipes are iron). Maybe that's pex-a or something? Anyway, something to think about.
YOU are correct, and it does NOT take a LONG time to destroy the Pex Tubing.. IT can be used Outside, Just needs to ALWAYS be covered from UV and Sunlight !!
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With that shallow trench, you might consider putting the PEX in PVC pipe to keep errant shovels from cutting the PEX lines. Retrofit a guard by cutting a piece of pipe lengthwise.
You should cover the vertical pex lines coming from the house with painted PVC, or something to protect them UV and a string trimmer.
The vertical wood board covers them pretty well.
pex isnt supposed to be in direct contact with the sunlight and uv, should cover up that exposed pex from the wall to the buried part
I thought the same, but knowing her, she already has plans to build a little enclosure around it.
I noticed that in Part 1, but didn't comment on it since I was sure she was going to make sure the PEX was all covered in Part 2.
I used two frost proof spigots that way it can be easily disconnected and drained, can be multi purposes for other things besides the shower as well, and doesn’t look like such a hack job visually from outside the house
April this is one of the easiest designs with the greatest looks that I think that you have done. Very beautifully done!
Thanks so much!
Fantastic project and outcome! I would add a cover to hide the pipes along the wall that blends in with the siding.
You can add an outdoor deep sink for gardening.
Thinking of doing this to rinse off from my pool. But just going to hook it up to a propane on demand tank in a box on a pole. Or just attach it to the outside wall of shower.
This is the best design I've ever seen for outdoor showers. The little bench sets it apart from other designs.
Glad you like it!
Wow! What a great video! Thank you for the time and energy you gave to create it. This is what excellence looks like!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another intresting project from Mrs Wilkerson.
Intresting because :
Very good explanations
Just says what needs to be sayed
Good filming
I recomend this DIY channel
Thumb up from France
Take care and stay safe .
Many thanks!
I see a tiny problem. To drain the lines, you turn off the water underneath the sink, open the drain valves and turn on the shower. This will drain the lines going to the shower, but not the lines coming from the inside. You need to install valves inside the sink vanity to let air into those lines for drainage.
I think she can drain the line coming from house by opening the master bathroom faucet after shutting off master lines in house for cold and hot lines?
@@joonasfi That should work, but I would prefer to do it all from the bathroom vanity and not involve the rest of the house.
@@joonasfi the shot off valves are not arranged as you think. The house supply would have to be off to vent from the sink. A better solution would be a extra valve in the shower branch that could be used to blow air through the lines.
April - I enjoy your videos. As a Canadian, I would include a blowout port so that you could use compressed air to blow out lines for winter. Great job!
I'm very impressed how much you've grown as a contractor and a channel! Really impressive work. I watch your stuff all the time. I'm sure you saw the other comments about the PEX not being UV resistant. I just learned this myself this year. It would make a good video showing how to correct that!
I have yet to be 'un-impressed'....keep up the excellent work. I love all your videos and have used many of the things you have shown,taught and done yourself. Thanks from Virginia. Hal
Aw thanks! Glad you enjoy my channel. Thanks for watching.
Thank you 😊
Really Nice Outdoor Shower! Reminds me of the one on Green Acres!🤣
Looks great April. Sure will be handy to have one. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Great! Thanks for watching.
@@AprilWilkerson why do you only reply to praise comments instead of one's that tell you what you did wrong. Only replies to the comments that say your so wonderful 👏
Might want to consider adding a backflow preventer on the cold water valve to prevent tainted water from getting into you houses drinking water. Just a thought. Nice video .. thanks for sharing a lot of great idea's.
Yes, A backflow preventer is required by code where I live.
You packed a lot of info and tips into that nine and half minutes. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
This is so much better than the ideas I was kicking around! Thanks for making such a luxury accessible!
You're so welcome! I just love it! Thanks for watching.
2:15 - should it ever freeze in Texas.... [February Intensifies] LOL
thanks
Great video, thank you. Personally I would have done it all in copper pipe, copper fittings and lagged it all. A soldered copper joint is less likely to leak them some of crimp pex fittings, well from experience anyways.
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Great job April, this is such great information and step by step instructions that anyone can follow. We just became aware of your channel and love what you're doing!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful workpiece
Nicely done. After yard work, this would be great to have instead of tracking dirt all over the house.
Exactly! My folks love theirs and after a day of working in the hot weather on the property it is so refreshing!
Interesting, thanks for posting and thumbs up.
Thanks for watching!
Another comment in the UV parade. A couple of years ago I replaced my pipes with PEX from the meter to the house, switched to iron pipe where I came out of the ground and into the house then switched back to PEX inside the house. Outdoor utility sink got plumbed with iron pipe then went back underground and switched back to PEX for the backyard, hose bibs came above ground with iron pipe. I've got no UV worries.
I think just a box (maybe galvanized steel?) would enough to protect your exposed PEX.
UV is the only drawback I know of with PEX. Wish I had seen your PEX crimping tips 2 years ago, would have used a lot less profanity. Jim Y
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO! Thanks for sharing! Keep your videos coming!
Your information is beautiful and helpful I hope to be health and safety
Love all your projects
Love it!
Plumbing lines in soil and no backflow preventer!
So cool!!!!
@2:20 "should it ever freeze in Texas".... Now that's funny! Great video, really like your content... just wish I had sponsors for my home projects (other than my bank account) :-P
You really need to build a cover box to the ground at the house and insulate the pipe from the ground to the shower faucet to keep it from freezing 👍 awesome build tho.
That's the purpose of the shut offs in the house and box in the ground. To turn the water off and drain it in the rare event of a freeze in that part of Texas.
@@ColeSpolaric
I understand that but the sun light on the pex is no good too . Box is for more than one reason !
@@allenwilson9656 correct! PEX is not meant to be in direct sunlight and the UV rays will make the pipe extremely brittle over time
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Absolutely beautiful I love it
Really want UV protection for the PEX, and where I live it seems better to have thick insulation for freeze protection, perhaps heat tape (does that work for PEX? Maybe on an outer galvanized protector?).
I'd go deeper with the trench and put cheap concrete paver blocks and surveyor's tape over the pipes. First person doing e.g. landscaping who chunks their shovel into the ground...
Excellent
Are you not concerned about UV exposure to the PEX?
Yeh, it will break for sure. I had some exposed pex, and after about a year, stepping on it caused it to give me an unscheduled shower.
Love it, Thanks for sharing.
So as a plumber this is very good but I noticed you backed off the Teflon when you were adjusting the shower head now there's a chance that can leak since you turned it anticlockwise and you should of ran copper on the outside till you went underground then go to pex or are you going to be covering the pipes up the wall up because pex doesn't go well in uv
Counter clockwise??
The first time when you said , “should it ever freeze here in Texas” made me laugh so hard. I think last February just seems like a bad nightmare for all of us now. Couldn’t have been real.
Great tip on Solidworks. I was not aware of this and will definitely pull the trigger on it.
Last Feb was certainly a nightmare! It was a once in a lifetime freeze to be sure. Thanks for watching.
Great minds think alike. I Love the content so far. (Especially the folding Adirondack chair.)
Glad you like them!
I like your "Freeze Test" April! Here in Michigan I definitely have to be concerned about colder temps. I'm surprised PEX did not break too. Very Interesting Video!!!
That shower is awesome, great job and thumbs up !
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
No love for PEX A, huh? PEX B is what you’re using (uses the crimp-type fittings). PEX A uses expansion fittings and is supposed to be even slightly better than PEX B at freeze resiliency.
Either way, as others said, PEX degrades with UV, so it should be covered there above ground. Running the PEX bare below grade also makes me pretty nervous, so I’d recommend others consider additional protection for the PEX if running it below grade like this.
I also think part of what makes PEX great is that you don’t need to do so many fittings which introduce bottlenecks and also (more importantly) opportunities for leaks. While 90 degree corners and vertical/horizontal runs like you did under the sink look nice, it creates more effort and introduces unnecessary failure points 🤷♂️
I use Pex A...and the UV rating on for it is even less than Pex B. :). I've even used it as the main 3/4" water supply line from the meter, but I sleeve it in 2" PVC. If the supply line ever needed to be replaced, it could be slid into the 2" PVC without digging.
That's a very good feature.
you or my inspiration
Looks GREAT! What an awesome idea.
I’m so inspired!!!!! You’re so talented!!!
Aw thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Starting out, I didn't know anything but built upon my confidence, experience and tool accumulation. I bought my first tools from yard sales and pawn shops, buying only the tool I needed, then saving for the next one. I learning from my mistakes along the way but if I can do it, anyone can. Enjoy the build. Thanks for watching.
This is very cool would be a great idea if you had a pool or something
I'm so proud of you. I feel like a mama!!
Thanks! And thank you for watching.
You make it look easy!!! Great work!
they have portable hot water heaters for camping which would work great at your parents.
My Mom doesn't want hot water. She only uses it during the hot Texas summers after working out on the property. She feels the cold well water is refreshing when all yucky. Thanks for watching.
There are more than 2 types of crimping with pex. Check out uponor or wirsbo, Aquapex ect. The actual "crimp" ring is made from the same material as the pipe and gets stretched open before install
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Very nice! As far as I know red/white/red pex is all the same (except color).
Hi April. Excellent video. I never knew pex was so strong. Looking forward to seeing future projects. Good job.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
I'm in Texas, too.....we had some -2 degrees F this past winter.
Beautiful! The only thing I would have done is put another wall on the outside right that comes back to the center of the front pad in order to add a little more privacy. My girls would require that. ;)
I see I'm not alone in scorching the paneling when sweating an under-sink fitting. Even the professionals do it from time to time. ;)
Thats better than my regular shower.
Amazing job April
Very nice and simple
Looks great April, love the videos!
Another great video Ms April
Thank you!
Great info, and a very nice project!!!!
I love this, but what if it's reall off-grid and all you have is a hose to run to a tankless water heater, but you also want cold water?
the valves you used are very fragile if your water is hard (limestone) then they will freeze and it will be very difficult to operate and if the handles are plastic they don't age well and brake very easily.
Yup, always splurge on the good valves.
So I hate to bother, but you’re my favorite diyer and I was wondering if you could make a video on sink and bath plumbing basics?? You’re one of the main UA-camrs I watch to train myself at my maintenance manager job hana
Add a solar water heater to your parent’s…can make one with a large pressurized PVC pipe painted black.
You are amazing. Love your videos. thank you
Glad you like them!
muy vueno
Great job as always!
Clever
Thanks!
Nice job always great information. Thanks 😊🙏
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great project - I am curious if you've run into any issues since the build? Would you do anything differently if you did this again? Is it to code/ legal plumbing to "T" into the plumbing under the sink? thanks!
We got down to 5 degrees this year and for 4 days in N Louisiana. I got lucky that none of mine busted. It's all pex
April as a carpenter head thanks for giving me this plumbing head project a great outdoors shower ; I'd add two things a privacy gate & a PVC shed roof. Sweet shower I may use this one for my shower, out on the range, & it's a great idea outside a sauna;👍. Best of blessings to you and all your friends 😘
David
Great video but what about the Uponor system for pex?
I was thinking about that, but couldn't remember the name!!! I remember Handeeman using that system on his new house
SWEET.
That looks awesome April. I would love to have something like that but unfortunately it wouldn’t be able to be used for half of the year since I live in Vermont lol. Another great project.
Oh my! Yes, in Texas it can practically be used year around, especially with having hot water. My folk's only wanted the cold well water so only uses theirs in hot summer months. Thanks for watching.
Great job!
This is legit. Personally I would be okay with only the cold side from an outdoor spigot. If I'm showering outside it's from working outside on a hot day and don't mind cold water. If this for a shower intended to compliment a pool then both would be nice.
That's precisely why my folks only wanted the cold water. It wouldn't be used in colder weather but after a hot day working on the property it feels so refreshing! Thanks for watching.
April, Have you checked to make sure the calking does not degrade the pex? plastics and some chemicals don't play wall together!
That brown grass should turn green now if that gets used often enough!
You’re a boss!
Can you do this same setup but off grid style with no access to house water.
Did you or could you tell us what shower head, shower handle, and shower equipment you used. We have been buying the outside shower whole silver unit and they are cheap and break easy,
"Should it ever freeze in TX..." Yeah... Apparently it does these days...
Hey April, what happened to the bloopers you used to put at the end of your videos? I really miss them.
There you go u the woman I love it I will like to do one like that Excellent nice job ⚒🛠😎🍻
Are you burying that PEX directly in the dirt trench or are you protecting it in some way?
I could be wrong, but I think pex will degrade when exposed to sunlight for long periods. I live in CA and some of my plumbing and my water heater are outside under a covered porch. I had a contractor replace a broken line and I asked about having pex installed because I thought it might be cheaper and faster. He said since it was exposed to UV, pex couldn't be used, so we went with copper instead (original pipes are iron). Maybe that's pex-a or something? Anyway, something to think about.
YOU are correct, and it does NOT take a LONG time to destroy the Pex Tubing.. IT can be used Outside, Just needs to ALWAYS be covered from UV and Sunlight !!
Luv your work ✌🏿
I would love a set of your plans
Below description of Video, I leave a Link to the Plans. Click on Show More and scroll down. Thanks for watching.
Ordered it thank u