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Plumbing 101, Pex Tools, Pipe, & Fittings!
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Today we look at PEX installation tools, the types of fittings, and pipe used in the PEX style of plumbing system. I show how the different types of crimp rings are installed and some of the pros and cons of each type. I also show how simple it is to remove fittings in both the PEX and Shark Bite styles of fittings for reuse and give some advice on the type of pipe to use.
The tools I like to use can be found easily by following the following Amazon links! Yes, this helps us out a little bit and costs you nothing more! Thanks.
Shark Bite 1/2" and 3/4" copper crimp ring crimper amzn.to/3Ct8Mh3
Apollo PEX 3/8" - 1" one hand stainless steel crimp ring plyers amzn.to/3ECrHH1
Apollo PEX 3/8" - 1" stainless steel crimp ring plyers amzn.to/3CD6fAY
Apollo PEX copper crimp ring removal tool amzn.to/3w48qLn
Conbraco stainless steel crimp ring removal tool amzn.to/3CtaD5v
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THANKS SO MUCH for the Video!!! There was no PEX back in the 90's when I learned Plumbing.
I have to replumb my entire house and I've been researching fittings and tools for hours! If I had seen this video first it would have saved me a ton of time. Thank you for giving me a visual. Now I'm a lot more comfortable with my decision to go with the stainless rings.
stainless rings are the worst LOL good luck
I’m getting into plumbing and I just wanted to say this video helped out alot. Thank you so much !
Thank you. Very useful information without a lot of wasted time. And you seem like a very good person. I hope you know the Lord. Thanks again.
I'm from the old school. Copper piping and soldering all joints. A skill and art in itself. I haven't had a need to do any home DIY plumbing jobs on the new pex style plumbing.until I moved into our new home. Realized in short order that I didn't know how to deal with this new product. I've been watching many UA-cam videos but until I saw your demos I couldnt get my old brain around it. Thank you for a great video.
Good luck but using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html
My respect to you for working with copper. I know it takes a lot of skill to get things soldered properly and not melt other things or set things on fire. I know I wouldn't be comfortable with sweating copper (but I'm not a plumber), but I can glue PVC and CPVC (obviously not together since that wouldn't make a secure solvent weld). I imagine getting copper to bend without kinking also requires skill.
@Gwen G Personally I’d prefer to replumb my house with copper but between the hard water and chloroamine treatment in my area, copper actually pits and has pinhole leaks within a few decades. Some of the builders have even sued the water utility for damages. So I’ll probably use pex or schedule 80 pvc.
@@edbouhl3100 copper sucks. No plumbers prefer it. All new houses get PEX.
Nice job Dan&Sarah! This is great easy to understand introduction overview to the Pex system. Answers a lot of questions. Thank you my friends.
So much info about defunct plumbing materials and connections. Would rather just look at a few, but only good recommended types, and mainly PEX, why I’m looking at all. I’ve been soldering copper since the early 1980’s. Just got a torch, flux, emery paper, fittings, pipe and a cutter. It’s easy and the water systems I’ve done all still work perfectly...except a couple that have frozen and one that was scraped by ‘dozers.
SS crimp looks like the best choice for PEX: versatile, cheap, lasts as well as any, easy to use, only one tool needed for most size pipes and fittings, and only needs access from the front.
This is a God-send to guys like me. Potentially, it can well save a home owner thousands.
Thank You
Thank you very much! I am planning to do some more PEX videos in the near future!
@@DanSarahMakers Hi. Good video and quite helpful. I was wondering if I could use the food grade silicone, or the clear pvc tubing shown here. luckyzone.aliexpress.com/store/all-wholesale-products/4384085.html?spm=2114.12010612.pcShopHead_10081700.1 and could I replace the crimps and clamps with the standard hose clamps that you put on with a screwdriver? This is in an old trailer that I'm working on, and I don't want to invest a lot in the project. Thank you!
@@DanSarahMakersOh, and what size would I need if I want half inch or three quarter, do you know what the compatibility numbers are? That would be a great help to me if you know. Thanks so much!
Great video. I teach some basic construction skills to kids in high school and videos like this are a great way to introduce a topic. Had a lot of good information in a short time which is essential to keeping teenagers attention. Thanks
For someone without the hand strength to repeatedly crimp fittings, the expandable PEX-A would be the way to go. Milwaukee and DeWalt both have battery powered expanders. Works good in tight spaces as well. Cheers!
Ryobi also has powered crimpers for both crimp rings and pinch rings.
The cheapest Milwaukee expansion tool for Pro-PEX sells in Canada for $ 530.00 with tax after adding a battery & charger. A little expensive for a DIY homeowner.
Great video very thorough and detailed 👍
This is my first lesson on how to use Pex. It actually looks like fun and much easier than galvanized and copper. I just need a plumbing problem to arise now so that I can apply what I learned from your video. Thanks for the intro.
FYI-Using PEX A with the expansion connection method is superior in few way such as to not cause restrictions to the water flow. Here is 1 example ua-cam.com/video/an4C5w0H-A0/v-deo.html Good luck.
Hire my cousin. You'll have all the plumbing (and other general construction problems) that you need. I'm trying to get a shirt printed for him that says: "Measure once, cut twice ... or more."
Excellent video with respect to your fitting presentation and post commentary on the different fittings and your professional experience with straight vs coiled pex.
Thanks for a very informative video and yes this old dog learned new tricks from your video . I'm a housing professional and have seen many system and was always confused from the array of systems but you made it easy to understand today again great job.
You mention the crimp rings are easier to remove, though other videos say the clamp rings are the easy ones to remove! Cheers thanks for the video.
I was hoping you would go into the pros and cons of each type of pex fitting. Might be a good topic for a follow up video.
The biggest take away for me was the straight vs coiled PEX tubing preference. I never thought about that and how it would effect working with it. Thank You.
Nicely done video. Good intro into PEX and the crimping styles for attaching fittings. I have a 2016 RV and the fittings are plastic and I need to repair the fittings to the sink and shower. I'll go with the copper fittings with the crimp clamps due to tight spaces. This was a good 101 video for sure. Many thanks!
Out of all the videos like this I never see the most common crimp system at least in my area. That is viega or heatlink. They have a stainless sleeve that’s really easy to crimp. Much easier than the copper rings in my opinion. They also go over the end so you dont have to worry about positioning. They have a little window to make sure the pipe is all the way up then you crimp it. I don’t use this system. I use uponor expansion. However they seem like the most common for plumbers. Viega makes the stuff for pex b and heatlink is a pex a version. Most of the examples shown are what’s sold at box stores. I’m not knocking what’s shown it just seems like they always get left out
Great tip about getting straight lengths vs coiled unless you have long runs.
Very helpful video on fittings. Thank you!
Very important information thanks a lot for your efforts.
Thank you for taking the time to explain those options. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks bro. Very informative.
(Gray = poly butylene or poly b) Great video!! I'm using this info on my DIY plumbing today!!! Thanks!!
We used Pex or something simular in '97 in Dads new house. I think we used a type of fitting that used a ferrel a threaded nut and a compression ring. Don't quote me now 21 years later, but it was fast way of doing it.
It does not have a plastic taste in the water as some people might say it does as would be most likely the plumbers who bad mouth it the most on account it's easy to install & most anybody with little skills can accomplish it on a D.I.Y project. This makes it a threat to their job security. Plus it holds up to the freezing weather expanding & contracting without breaking & if so it freezes you just need to thaw it with a hairdryer. It's also just so easy to fix or add to with a simple cut, a clamp ring & crimp. No glue or soldering is required. & besides that you can easily snake it through the wall studs & around corners without splicing couplings or elbows in between every stud or rafter. It's the best of the best! However don't expose it or mount it in direct sunlight or have it exposed to ultraviolet rays & always allow plenty of expansion & contraction as if need be you can loop it in a wall cavity about every 8' or 10'.span. One man's loss is another man's gain. So use it & let it be your gain.& not your payment plan pain. I am a good man to have on hand, Dave the handyman! Home repair guy St. Louis, Mo.
Not due to threat since anyone can just as easily install PVC and its not bad mouthed. Nobody in our family calls plumbers unless codes are involved because not much to running most any plumbing you don't solder. Mouthing of pex came about after Polypropylene plastics were determined to be just deadly in microwaved food containers so its assumed by some that Pex is also somehow bad for us ever since then. I don't microwave my water lines, how about you?
Its just peronoid people I swear, their needs to be door to door psychologist in our country because they'd make a damn killing today.
@@harryballz6358 Look, Smarty Pants, maybe you don't nuke your pex but some of us are pretty bored stuck in our house these days...
I don't know anything about piping, but I need to fix my moms mobile home. Would pex piping be ideal and do I have to take apart the floor boards to get to the pipes?
Great vid! Only thing I didn't get was how to remove the stainless steel rings!
When using the copper ring to crimp on to hold it in place, it helps to use a channel locks to easily pinch over it 1st just enough so it wont slide & then use your crimper to finish it. Those special copper rings with the orange no slide.sleeve will only cost you more than the regular copper rings would be using this method of pinch & crimp.
This is why I read comments: I have so much to learn.
"...use a channel locks to easily pinch over it ..."
NOTE: this is NOT a procedure that is recommended or suggested by the mfg. It requires another tool (Channel Locks) that is likely to distort the ring and may compromise the fitting. If you find it difficult to place the ring properly using the standard tool(s), use the crimp rings designed to solve the problem by the folks who designed the system because, if you screw it up, it will cost you more to repair it than you would save on a pack of rings.
Of course, if you're working on someone else's home or something you're going to flip, what the hell? Right?
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Awesome Brother I'm replacing my tub n shower diverter that was leaking, so I'm putting a new system in. Thanks this gives me more confidence with this you saved me 1k, appreciate you keep it coming.
Thank you for making this video on plumbing. I look forward to more videos on this subject.
Very educational. Thank you.
Great video. Thx for posting.
Definitely earned a big thumbs up! Thanks for the great demo and insight!
Glad it was helpful!
Bang up job. Thank you. I had my plumbing redone with pex a while back and now I have to replace my water heater. Wasn't sure if I needed something specific to my pipe.
The tubing with aluminum sandwiched between two plastic layers is still used in all in floor heating applications where Ethelene glycol is the circulating fluid for heating.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It helped!
Very nicely done thank you.
Very helpful and informative video. Thank you for taking your time to make and post!
Great video! It's exactly what I was looking for. I've done a healthy amount of construction/remodeling work, but Pex is new to me. Trying to replace my kitchen sink faucet and didn't have the slightest clue how to do it. I figured out that I need tools, but research showed me all different kinds and I had no clue which one would work best. I'm still undecided but at least I have a basis to start from now.
Keep it simple. The Kitchen Sink Faucets likely fasten to the hot and cold water valves under the sink and all you'll need is a couple of wrenches (and a BASIN wrench - to get loosen the nuts holding the faucet to teh sink, etc.)
Try Googling "Replace Kitchen Faucet - This Old House " on UA-cam as I know they have done this several times. You will not need any PEX or fittings as discussed in this video.
Just started to research pex. Good vid...was quite helpful thanks.
Thanks G for you, info, and demo, also; It would be nice to see how pex and copper can be combined interchangeable.
I will see what I can do. I have been planning a video like that for a while now!
Thanks for the video. I've never used PEX before and it was a really helpful overview.
Just what I was looking for - THANK YOU! 🙂👍
dude thank you you im dealing with a 23 year old rv thank you
Thanks for information, that's great
Thank you so much! I'm working on a rental trailer and it has some PEX pipe in it and I was not familiar with any of the fittings (especially the Shark ones) and I didn't know how to release them or what fitting that I needed to use to add additional water lines to the existing PEX ... and now I feel (thanks you your video) that I can do the work myself!
Good information. Thanks.
Very educational video ! Thank you for your video sir ! 👍
I laughed when you said I've got a half inch shark bite removal tool but I can't find it. It would require me dumping by entire tool box to find mine. Great video!
Awesome video Dan, thank you very much.
great video thanks for explaining everything I did not understand till now👍
Thank you for sharing 👍👍
Excellent video. You covered the bases exceptionally well. Thanks
very good video ,it was very well explained Thank You
Make sure you test each connection with the go-nogo connection tester for a proper ring to pex seal.
Jack, what is this you speak of?
Educate me/us please.
Pretty koo video dude, summed up all the questions I had thanks again. 🤙
Nice video!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
i will do a dry run because you sure made me want to try it!!
Really informative video! Thank you! 👍🇨🇦
To take off the pinch clamp just take a dremel thin grinding wheel and grind down that little piece that holds the end of the clamp to the underneath part of the clamp. The pull it apart with a pair of plane out diagonal wire cutters. You can also use the dremel with the thin grinding wheel to cut in a diagonal method on opposite sides to weaken the pex still on the fitting but be careful not to grind into the fitting.
Great informative video
I've tried both the copper crimp rings and the stainless steel clamp rings. When I used the copper crimp rings, the PEX pipe was securely fastened to the fitting so tightly that I could not rotate the fitting on the pipe, it was 'one piece'. But with the clamp ring, I could rotate the fitting with not all that much effort, the clamp ring did not do as good a job as the crimp ring. I could see a clamp connection leaking after a few years.
A person who is thinking about doing any plumbing should consider only these types of fittings:
- 1) Expanded-PEX fittings (Uponor) as the fittings have a larger inside diameter than 'crimped' type of PEX fittings, so less resistance to flow. Crimped-PEX fittings are okay though for smaller flow items such as sinks and toilets. If you want to use crimped-PEX but you need more flow than the 1/2" crimped fittings provide, then you will have to use the larger 3/4" PEX pipes. The crimped fittings for the 3/4" PEX pipe have the same internal diameter as 1/2" copper pipes do, so 1/2" copper pipes can be connected to 3/4" PEX pipes with no loss in flow rates at all at the fittings.
- 2) Soldered joints = to solder in the adapters that allow the PEX to be connected to existing copper pipes.
- 3) Threaded fittings = to connect the PEX pipe to valves, water filters, water heaters, or other threaded connections.
- 4) at places where you need a 90-degree bend, simply use a 'metal PEX pipe 90-degree bend support' that is available at all Home Depot stores for $2.50 each - it is way easier to install than a 90-degree fitting would be to add to the PEX pipe. It just slides over the PEX pipe itself, causing the PEX to bend really tightly, and no cutting of the pipe itself is required.
Do NOT use SharkBite fittings for connections to hot water heaters as the extreme levels of thermal expansion will lead to leaks in just a few years.
Do not use the 'clamp' stainless steel rings on PEX fittings, use the 'CRIMP' copper rings instead as the 'crimp' rings won't expand once they have been crimped, but the 'TAB' on the clamped stainless steel rings tends to OPEN-UP as time passes, and that often leads to leaks after 6 to 8 years in hot water pipe fittings that have more thermal expansion cycles in them than the cold water pipes do.
Often a homeowner has a situation where he/she cannot shut off the water completely and there is a bit of water dripping out of the copper pipe. You can't solder a fitting onto a copper pipe that has water flowing through it like that. In a situation such as that the easiest option is to use a SharkBite fitting on it. Before SharkBites it would be necessary to use a vacuum connected to a length of 3/8" copper tubing to 'suck' the dripping water out of the pipe as a fitting (or valve) was being soldered to the copper, but that was hard to do and needed skill. Still, I prefer doing that to using SharkBites, I just trust solder to hold for years, more than I trust a rubber O-ring to hold for years.
Lots of good info, thanks for the input.
Use type A with plastic fittings when your on a well. Sulphuric water turn brass black and tears up cooper. That in turns transfers to the porcelain on your sinks and toilets.
Awesome video. Thanks!
Lots of knowledge here thanks
thank you so much for sharing this video, it is really a big, big help
Great video. Could u make a video showing how u would instal the pex tuning to an under counter sink to the shut off.
Very Informative and detailed. Great hands on demo too. Thank you!
yeah I have a rental trailer with the PolyB pipe. Thankfully my well water doesn't have chlorine and after 23 years have not had a single leak due to the pipe failing at least.. Well except when a rat chewed through it..:). Thankfully Home Depot stock a PB to PEX fitting for $2 which can be used with a standard PEX crimper... I keep 4 of those on hand just in case.
Very informative I work at a local hardware store and I really want to help customers more with there problems but I dont know much about plimbing
Very excellent video bro. Learned so much. Thank you. Looking forward to your upcoming video on "Building a bar in Key West".
I did my garage air lines with pex and shark fittings, slick , no air leaks at all.
Now I'm gonna run a hot water line to my washer.
Great video. Don't forget, it is a good idea to use the "shark bite" depth marker, for a reliable connection.
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Very helpful, thank you.
Great video - very informative....thanks so much! I can tell you know your stuff!
Thank you very much for the info Dan.
The gray was called Quest tubing polybutylene , I think they had more problems with the fittings than the pipe.
false pipe was bad
Thanks. This was very helpful.
Great video, thanks 👍
To keep the crimp ring in the right spot, I first wrap 6 wraps of masking tape on the pipe in the right spot to keep the crimp ring from sliding down the pipe. you need to make sure that the crimp ring stays in exactly the right spot on the pipe while crimping and the masking tape keeps the crimp ring in the right spot if you 'press. the crimp tool up against the tape while you are crimping. Then when the crimping is done, you remove the tape.
Excellent Video.. I have Questions on (1) How does those Plastic fittings will stand up to freezing Vs Metal fittings used in pex B pipping with crimping system? (2) Crimping with this fitting which reduces flow of water as they are not exactly 1/2 " or 3/4 inch when you slide inside pex B tubing, is there any inexpensive fittings which can donot do that at the same time will standup to freezing situation by not bursting ?
Good tutorial that answers a lot of common questions. I've always been a copper pipe and solder guy for hidden connections. It does take some experience to complete some solder connections in tight places. Shark-Bite or Push-On connectors have pleasantly surprised me how well they seal the first time and every time. Shark-Bite can make some very difficult connections very simple. Shark-Bite "slip joint" fittings can be a real problem solver when working in tight spaces or with rigidly fixed piping. I still have some concerns regarding the longevity of Shark-Bite connectors when they are hidden in walls where they are not accessible, such as behind tile. Early PEX systems seemed to be inferior and builders were just trying to save costs, but time seems to have proven them to be a reliable system. Whether they will perform for 80 to 100 years like copper can is yet to be seen. I know of two cases where PEX tubing was chewed and damaged by wildlife causing flooding. I would avoid the use of PEX anywhere that it could be accessed by rodents, squirrels, raccoons...etc. If you have a grizzly in your crawlspace, you have a bigger problem.
I agree that Shark-Bite are amazing as "problem solvers" for tight places or where you don't want to introduce a flame. There are concerns with their ultimate longevity. I've also heard of problems with PEX tubing and rodents, squirrels and raccoons, etc. PEX piping will also melt in a fire, but maybe that's a good thing, since the water spray could extinguish the fire. LOL.
God Morning. Thank You. Jack
Fantastic info, thank you!
thank you
I just redid my bathroom my shower and kitchen waterlines with pex And we did the drain lines with PVC I did this for under $600 with Delta faucets and mixing valves my plumber wanted $5300
Good Video!
Thanks that cleared things for me..
A handyman is another word for non- professional. A DIYer will use want he can afford, a professional will use top shelf material. A handyman will use what ever is laying around.
07:15 the pex that has to be expanded is called Uponor AquaPex
which one better in ur opinion
1. pure pex pipe with all plastic or
2. Rifeng multi layer pex pipe which has alumunium inside plastic
If I have black pipe coming into my house and I want to go to ball valve and then pex after that. What fittings would be best ?
Great video, would have just liked to see you cut off the last type of crimping ring.
Thanks for idea of buying straight pipes not curved ones..
NICE!!!.... thanks!
Well done. Thank you!
Good info, thanks.