Man thanks for this video. I've been a little intimidated by doing this job on my own. Thanks for explaining even the little things and breaking everything down. Great video!
Iam a carpenter,but i watch your vidios on plumbing,You rock you show what to do, no stupid funny shit,or blasting music, Keep doning what you doing man, thank you
This was an excellent video for folks who are doing it themselves. I'm retired now but did a whole lot of this work once upon a time. I can't say I'm a fan of silicone, though! I relied on the rubber gaskets and seals. To be fair, many seals are of a lower quality today. I always greased all threaded fittings and bolts/machine screws, so that many years later the next guy could easily disassemble my work. Anyways, excellent how-to vid!
As a DIYer I appreciate you frequently acknowledging how real scenarios are always a variable that can basically absorb an entire weekend (for example) with multiple trips back to the store (and yes, it will be Home Depot or Lowes, because the "local hardware store" here (a quasi Do It Best franchisee) is gone by Sat noon until Mon morning. The tubs in our place have a combo overflow and drain control that is not like the typical kind with the plunger. You move a lever from 7:00 over to 4:00. 7 o'clock is closed; 4 o'clock drains the tub. (The lever control is in the overflow grate.)The linkage moves the drain cover, like how the modern ones require you to do that yourself. Made by Crane, and 85+ years old.
Thank You man !!!! Even though like you said you made this look super easy but just for demonstration purposes, I’m needing to do this to our upstairs tub, everything is accessible in basement, clearly have better understanding now, Thank You!!! But I know I will run into something 🤦♂️
I appreciate you taking the time to show everyone how to do this work and empowering us to give it a try before we call our local plumber. Got me feeling confident on my way to Home Depot lol!
I found thia video because we just bought a house and discovered that the "smooth operating" old drain lever is actually broken, presumably with the float/plug stuck in the down position. This video was SUPER helpful and I think I can attempt the repair on my own. Thanks!
THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH - Loved how you took your time, showed all the steps, and went 1 by 1. Thank you for posting this. Id love to see more A to Z videos like this, maybe for installation of faucets etc. i learned alot
Great video, new subscriber! We had a new tub just put in, looks like they used compression style connections vs glue on the tee. There is now an access panel behind the tub. Curious if they should have used glue instead of the compression style like in the original connection in your video before you replaced. I even heard that code in MD might even say glue connection is mandatory. Thanks
My tub drain came with gasket. Looks like you don't use it, and just use silicone instead. Did I understand that correctly? And thanks for the video... I personally appreciate the easy-to-see view.
I have to do this plus add a new trap in this 80 year old house. Existing has a trap made of steel pipe that goes into a drum trap. Is slow or blocks often. Do you have other videos?
We don't have a video for the scenario you are talking about, but I will try my best to explain how to do it. The drum trap should have an inlet and an outlet. Cut the inlet (pipe from the tub/shower). Put a wye fitting in and have the branch of that wye tie into the vent. On the continuation of the wye (straight part) that is where you will want to make the p-trap connection to the tub. In our code jurisdiction the wye for the vent has to come off within 2 feet of the p-trap. I hope to have a video of this scenario down the road we just haven't dealt with this situation since having started our UA-cam channel. I hope this helps. If you have any further questions on it let me know In the comments here and I will try to reply as quick as I can! Thank you for the comment, good luck!
Whatever you do make it so you can fix it easy in future. If that means making a step up to get in the bath do that. Cos im in the same boat ...and all the in pipes and out pipes at the far end going to the other end ..I don't know why the in taps are at the same place as the out taps...put them in the middle or up above on the wall like the old days so you can reach them!! And they look lovely those old copper pipes on the walls ...and put the out pipe so you can fix it and it has a drop. Mine has no drop so it constantly gets stagnant hair and crap and its so hard to get it out. 😂
@@jdcisneros9023 if it aint terrible ypu aint a plumber. ...you also replied to the mán above whos question is about his bathrub. But I assume you meant to reply to me. Not the smartest bunch are they plumbers...thank god they are totally dispensaible.
And check the home you're looking to buy to make sure this rule was followed. Otherwise you're tearing out kitchen cabinets to access tub or shower. Designers don't care
Hey Jeff, question. My bathtub has brass piping. I purchased a bathtub drain/flood kit, and right now I'm stuck on how to go from the PVC kit into the brass fitting? I saw-zawed off the drain and flood piping, but the brass T is still intact. My PVC kit has it's own T, where on the T section do I tie in the PVC piping?
OK, so I have old pipes in my bathroom, My "stopper" is on my faucet in my tub. My question is, does the faucet have same kinda plug inside as the other stoppers not on faucet?
I’m currently doing this, but there is a bit of standing water in the drain. The horizontal pipe from the drain to the T is parallel to the ground, would you recommend trying to instead add a little slope so there is no standing water?
If the T is on its back does it still have a p-trap? Ideally you should try to make the T vertical rather than on its back and worst case scenario definitely do try to put some fall on it so it drains out better!
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 the T is set up correctly, just like yours, where overflow drains straight down through it. The horizontal run from the drain to the T is very horizontal so you can see some water sitting in the drain through the bathtub drain hole. I agree I’ll need to put some fall in the horizontal run
The watco demonstrated here does not give you the option of 1. Using a hair catch cover or 2. Having a male to female threaded overflow drain with gasket and silicone. Seems like two very important things to me that are not available with this tub waste kit.
Just unscrew the overflow plate and pull it off and send it down the overflow. Only use a 1/4" cable and put a towel on the bottom side to make sure you don't scratch the tub!
I have an overflow that doesn’t have a screw to keep the twist type overflow, on. I don’t want to try and pull it off. The back is butted up against a screen. Anyone have any ideas on how to get the overflow to release? It’s a turn type in an American standard jacuzzi style tub.
Are you actually talking about the overflow or the drain stopper on the base of the tub? I know some of the ones that click open and closed pull strait out, without a screw and are held in place with an o-ring. Some of the off brand lift and turns unscrew by turning the whole stopper, usually using channel locks around the outside. If it's really stuck, you can easily break the little cross it screws into, though.
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 talking about the handle that is normally just a vent or a lever. It twists and pulls the stopper down. There is not a set screw inside a hidden hole…
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 it’s leaking at the tee from the drain and overflow. There is a metal nut below it that is leaking. I can unscrew the trap if I can remove the overflow
@Pc Rashford well the concerning part is that the drain and overflow should tie into eachother...so you may have a broken pipe if the overflow pipe fell but the drain is still hooked up.
There is a difference yes, ABS (the black plastic) seems to expand and contract due to temperatures much more than PVC does and it uses a different glue to create the joints.. We aren't very big fans of it. ABS is also typically far more expensive than pvc ever since covid. Here in Omaha you are not allowed to mingle those pipes together for it to be to code. It either has to be all pvc or all ABS with some exceptions. Hope this answered your question!
Now show how to install one by yourself on a tub that's already been in for 20 years and there is a wall there like there would normally be. It's easy to install when there is no wall and you can just reach over the tub and hold everything with one hand and screw in the drain with other hand. No one ever does a video in real life situation as to where the tub has been in the home for 20 or 30 years and they have to replace the entire drain and overflow, trap by themselves.
Well, we do that quite frequently in real life applications but most homeowners don't even know what the waste and overflow looks like behind their tub and in the walls...so that was the purpose of this video to give homeowners a better understanding of how things work.
Dude he literally said it multiple times that hes making it look easy for demonstration purposes. You know how it all works and is needed to replace it so look at your set up and figure out how to do it. Its really not that hard if you can cut a whole behing the wall where the plumbing is.
Try doing it by yourself in an actual reso situation when there is a wall there. One person cant reach around and hold everything unless your a super hero stretch man. When your by yourself you have to come up with some creative ways to install one by yourself..
I love how this bath is up at a level that you can see under. Im trying to seal a out pipe thats not working well with silcone and christ i should have done yoga. Its insanely badly placed..we figure out iPhone but we can't make it easy to fix the tub when it needs it. And plumber do not exist here. Not resistsred not licenced...jsut cowboys and ill do a better job than that!
Good walkthrough, but the corners you cut in this video range from silly to reckless given people watching this don't know that they're a problem. 1) not covering the drain will potentially let hardware fall into drain (sure, you're removing it, but why create this hassle when a simple drain covering fixes the issue); 2) your sloppy measurements are clearly wrong. Sometimes a cm or 2 error can be the source of either a major headache/re-do during install or the source of a leak many years later; 3) cutting something on your leg with a saw is just stupid; 4) cutting pipe without deburring or cleaning it up anyway is potentially going to create issues in the future. I do think your video is valuable to many, but I think at least mention of these issues in the comments would be appropriate. Thanks!
Actually we quite literally showed you how it is removed and installed in the field. With the bonus of being able to show you what it looks like in the wall with our open set up. This helps people understand what parts they're working with. Thanks for the comment though!
Man thanks for this video. I've been a little intimidated by doing this job on my own. Thanks for explaining even the little things and breaking everything down. Great video!
Iam a carpenter,but i watch your vidios on plumbing,You rock you show what to do, no stupid funny shit,or blasting music, Keep doning what you doing man, thank you
Thank you! Much appreciated words.
You know you’re a boss when you can run a flat head bit on a variable speed drill without slipping.
This was an excellent video for folks who are doing it themselves. I'm retired now but did a whole lot of this work once upon a time. I can't say I'm a fan of silicone, though! I relied on the rubber gaskets and seals. To be fair, many seals are of a lower quality today. I always greased all threaded fittings and bolts/machine screws, so that many years later the next guy could easily disassemble my work. Anyways, excellent how-to vid!
As a DIYer I appreciate you frequently acknowledging how real scenarios are always a variable that can basically absorb an entire weekend (for example) with multiple trips back to the store (and yes, it will be Home Depot or Lowes, because the "local hardware store" here (a quasi Do It Best franchisee) is gone by Sat noon until Mon morning.
The tubs in our place have a combo overflow and drain control that is not like the typical kind with the plunger. You move a lever from 7:00 over to 4:00. 7 o'clock is closed; 4 o'clock drains the tub. (The lever control is in the overflow grate.)The linkage moves the drain cover, like how the modern ones require you to do that yourself.
Made by Crane, and 85+ years old.
Thank You man !!!! Even though like you said you made this look super easy but just for demonstration purposes, I’m needing to do this to our upstairs tub, everything is accessible in basement, clearly have better understanding now, Thank You!!! But I know I will run into something 🤦♂️
I appreciate you taking the time to show everyone how to do this work and empowering us to give it a try before we call our local plumber. Got me feeling confident on my way to Home Depot lol!
Awsom man .im a Diy gal well explain nice n slow . love how the camera man zooms in so we can have a close up look,specialy on those gasket .thank you
I found thia video because we just bought a house and discovered that the "smooth operating" old drain lever is actually broken, presumably with the float/plug stuck in the down position. This video was SUPER helpful and I think I can attempt the repair on my own. Thanks!
My first time watching your videos. I'm now a subscriber. Keep on keeping it simple!
THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH - Loved how you took your time, showed all the steps, and went 1 by 1. Thank you for posting this. Id love to see more A to Z videos like this, maybe for installation of faucets etc. i learned alot
Thank you for the video. I am glad you are taking the time to help us DIYers!
Thank you for your time making this video it helps me very much…watching from Prince George, BC
This video and instruction was excellent! Thanks for helping the DIYer .Other videos aren't explained so clearly .
Glad we could help, thanks!
Thanks very much! This was just what I needed.
looks like everyone is watching his content but nobody subscribin. subscribe to this man!😂
That first comment is so true I do this type of work you're so right total different story although the videos informative in its own right
Very detailed walk through I truly appreciate you sir
Well done and easy to understand. Thanks for the demo.
This was helpful as basic as it seems
very good teaching and camera work
Great video! Thanks for the demo!
This video is gold ... stray to how to do the work ...thanks
Thanks for the comment!!
U welcome man u video is gold to me ...
Thanks for the video I love this video I see it very often
Great video, new subscriber! We had a new tub just put in, looks like they used compression style connections vs glue on the tee. There is now an access panel behind the tub. Curious if they should have used glue instead of the compression style like in the original connection in your video before you replaced. I even heard that code in MD might even say glue connection is mandatory. Thanks
Great video thanks
These jobs are always demonstrated in the world's most ideal environments
That was the point of this video. Most home owners don't know what plumbing looks like behind finished walls!
Great video. You done good!
My tub drain came with gasket. Looks like you don't use it, and just use silicone instead. Did I understand that correctly?
And thanks for the video... I personally appreciate the easy-to-see view.
the gasket goes on the back side (behind) of tub. I highly recommend plumbers putty over silicone which goes on front side.
Very informative! Thanks for sharing! 😊
Thanks for commenting. Appreciate ya!
I have to do this plus add a new trap in this 80 year old house. Existing has a trap made of steel pipe that goes into a drum trap. Is slow or blocks often. Do you have other videos?
We don't have a video for the scenario you are talking about, but I will try my best to explain how to do it. The drum trap should have an inlet and an outlet. Cut the inlet (pipe from the tub/shower). Put a wye fitting in and have the branch of that wye tie into the vent. On the continuation of the wye (straight part) that is where you will want to make the p-trap connection to the tub. In our code jurisdiction the wye for the vent has to come off within 2 feet of the p-trap. I hope to have a video of this scenario down the road we just haven't dealt with this situation since having started our UA-cam channel. I hope this helps. If you have any further questions on it let me know In the comments here and I will try to reply as quick as I can! Thank you for the comment, good luck!
I have a 74-year-old house that needs that too. Can you tell me approximately how much a plumber would charge?
Fantastic
I need to know how to do this while installing new tub into the tightest fit ever known to man surrounded by 3 walls.
Whatever you do make it so you can fix it easy in future. If that means making a step up to get in the bath do that. Cos im in the same boat ...and all the in pipes and out pipes at the far end going to the other end ..I don't know why the in taps are at the same place as the out taps...put them in the middle or up above on the wall like the old days so you can reach them!! And they look lovely those old copper pipes on the walls ...and put the out pipe so you can fix it and it has a drop. Mine has no drop so it constantly gets stagnant hair and crap and its so hard to get it out. 😂
Welcome to plumbing my friend if it ain’t terrible you ain’t a plumber
@@jdcisneros9023 if it aint terrible ypu aint a plumber. ...you also replied to the mán above whos question is about his bathrub. But I assume you meant to reply to me. Not the smartest bunch are they plumbers...thank god they are totally dispensaible.
If your installing a tub put the head on an interior wall so you can access the plumbing from the back
And check the home you're looking to buy to make sure this rule was followed. Otherwise you're tearing out kitchen cabinets to access tub or shower. Designers don't care
Hey Jeff, question. My bathtub has brass piping. I purchased a bathtub drain/flood kit, and right now I'm stuck on how to go from the PVC kit into the brass fitting?
I saw-zawed off the drain and flood piping, but the brass T is still intact. My PVC kit has it's own T, where on the T section do I tie in the PVC piping?
I like how he talks.
Can the p-trap be installed perpendicular to the drain?
What brand of bathtubs do you recommend?
thank you for sharing
Best plumbers in the country huh... Damn that's a little over the top let's be honest here
Thanks for the videos very helpful!
OK, so I have old pipes in my bathroom, My "stopper" is on my faucet in my tub. My question is, does the faucet have same kinda plug inside as the other stoppers not on faucet?
Excellent
Nice detailed video
Thank you for the comment!
Hey Jeff, would you attach the waste and overflow plumbing before putting the tub in if you have access to connect to P trap from below
I would say yes we have attached the waste and overflow ahead of time before but in most cases we hook up the overflow after the tub is set.
Thanks sir
Gracias 👍
I’m currently doing this, but there is a bit of standing water in the drain. The horizontal pipe from the drain to the T is parallel to the ground, would you recommend trying to instead add a little slope so there is no standing water?
If the T is on its back does it still have a p-trap? Ideally you should try to make the T vertical rather than on its back and worst case scenario definitely do try to put some fall on it so it drains out better!
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 the T is set up correctly, just like yours, where overflow drains straight down through it. The horizontal run from the drain to the T is very horizontal so you can see some water sitting in the drain through the bathtub drain hole. I agree I’ll need to put some fall in the horizontal run
The watco demonstrated here does not give you the option of 1. Using a hair catch cover or 2. Having a male to female threaded overflow drain with gasket and silicone. Seems like two very important things to me that are not available with this tub waste kit.
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How do you snake the tub from the new overflow if the screw hole is in the way
Just unscrew the overflow plate and pull it off and send it down the overflow. Only use a 1/4" cable and put a towel on the bottom side to make sure you don't scratch the tub!
I have an overflow that doesn’t have a screw to keep the twist type overflow, on. I don’t want to try and pull it off. The back is butted up against a screen. Anyone have any ideas on how to get the overflow to release? It’s a turn type in an American standard jacuzzi style tub.
Are you actually talking about the overflow or the drain stopper on the base of the tub? I know some of the ones that click open and closed pull strait out, without a screw and are held in place with an o-ring. Some of the off brand lift and turns unscrew by turning the whole stopper, usually using channel locks around the outside. If it's really stuck, you can easily break the little cross it screws into, though.
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 talking about the handle that is normally just a vent or a lever. It twists and pulls the stopper down. There is not a set screw inside a hidden hole…
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 it’s leaking at the tee from the drain and overflow. There is a metal nut below it that is leaking. I can unscrew the trap if I can remove the overflow
I took of the cover on the bath to the over flow now the pipe has fell down inside the back of the tub :s
Is the drain still hooked up to the tub?
@@jeffmummplumbing9321 yes just the overflow gone missing doen the back, im dont known if its fine to bath????
@Pc Rashford well the concerning part is that the drain and overflow should tie into eachother...so you may have a broken pipe if the overflow pipe fell but the drain is still hooked up.
these bathtubs doesn't need p trap?
They do! The P-Trap gets installed below the T fitting connecting the drain of the tub and overflow. Hope this makes sense. Thanks for the comment!
I thought you're not supposed to put metal male end into the pvc female end
Am not a plumber. My question is, this is there any difference between pvc pipe and ABS Pipe, are you aloud to mixing them together
There is a difference yes, ABS (the black plastic) seems to expand and contract due to temperatures much more than PVC does and it uses a different glue to create the joints.. We aren't very big fans of it. ABS is also typically far more expensive than pvc ever since covid. Here in Omaha you are not allowed to mingle those pipes together for it to be to code. It either has to be all pvc or all ABS with some exceptions. Hope this answered your question!
This video is designed to make you call a plumber.
Now show how to install one by yourself on a tub that's already been in for 20 years and there is a wall there like there would normally be. It's easy to install when there is no wall and you can just reach over the tub and hold everything with one hand and screw in the drain with other hand. No one ever does a video in real life situation as to where the tub has been in the home for 20 or 30 years and they have to replace the entire drain and overflow, trap by themselves.
Well, we do that quite frequently in real life applications but most homeowners don't even know what the waste and overflow looks like behind their tub and in the walls...so that was the purpose of this video to give homeowners a better understanding of how things work.
Hire a plumber….
Dude he literally said it multiple times that hes making it look easy for demonstration purposes. You know how it all works and is needed to replace it so look at your set up and figure out how to do it. Its really not that hard if you can cut a whole behing the wall where the plumbing is.
Really dude 😅 you didn't listen at all
He did say several times this is an easy example and don’t expect yours to be this easy
Try doing it by yourself in an actual reso situation when there is a wall there. One person cant reach around and hold everything unless your a super hero stretch man. When your by yourself you have to come up with some creative ways to install one by yourself..
most times it takes two guys to install the drain.
Only takes 1 man though
I love how this bath is up at a level that you can see under. Im trying to seal a out pipe thats not working well with silcone and christ i should have done yoga. Its insanely badly placed..we figure out iPhone but we can't make it easy to fix the tub when it needs it. And plumber do not exist here. Not resistsred not licenced...jsut cowboys and ill do a better job than that!
Good walkthrough, but the corners you cut in this video range from silly to reckless given people watching this don't know that they're a problem. 1) not covering the drain will potentially let hardware fall into drain (sure, you're removing it, but why create this hassle when a simple drain covering fixes the issue); 2) your sloppy measurements are clearly wrong. Sometimes a cm or 2 error can be the source of either a major headache/re-do during install or the source of a leak many years later; 3) cutting something on your leg with a saw is just stupid; 4) cutting pipe without deburring or cleaning it up anyway is potentially going to create issues in the future. I do think your video is valuable to many, but I think at least mention of these issues in the comments would be appropriate. Thanks!
People shouldn't do their own plumbing anyways.
Lmao you SHOWED no in field install tips ....WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND EVERYONE WATCHING
Actually we quite literally showed you how it is removed and installed in the field. With the bonus of being able to show you what it looks like in the wall with our open set up. This helps people understand what parts they're working with. Thanks for the comment though!