I hate plumbing

[Triplegreen500]

I see you went the “ hammer-open the drywall school “
Love it!

Well yeah, with a waterfall in my basement and water coming out an electrical box and a network outlet box in my living room...I was in a bit of a rush lol. I'd killed the well pump and opened the utility sink faucet in the basement, but the pressure was still taking a while to bleed off.

And, I got to cheat. Fridge and cabinets hide most of it! But compared to an entire 2 bedroom apartment...this was a breeze to patch!

 

[toolmanmike]

Might be nuts but i trust solder joints... my house is 43 years old and not a single leak or corrosion (lucky) yet.... I'm sure sharkbites are great but.. just dunno.. seems wrong

I helped my oldest install a water softener in his house. We used PEX-A. (with the expansion tool instead of PEX-B with the metal clamps) I had never used it before and as old fashioned as I am, i must say, I was impressed. We had to cut into the main feed near the water meter and run pipe through a suspended ceiling to the utility room almost across the house, where we were installing the softener. It went fast and really slick with the fitting and expansion tool and rings. As an FYI, here's a video about the 2.

 

[1967coronet]

Funny the subject came up.
We are doing a refresh on our rental.
Paint , carpet , ect.
The faucet set in the tub shower had been in since before we owned the place 12 years this year.
I had swapped in new cartridges a couple times.
I decided this time to replace the set.
Stub wall at the control end with 18" and shelves onto the house wall.
The shelves were all held in place with ring shank nails. After destroying the shelves it was time to take the plywood access back off the stub wall.
Yep ring shanks again, though this time I went home and grabbed my Dremel tool and some bits, took the heads off the nails and pulled the panel.
I just know whoever nailed that together was laughing.

 

[toolmanmike]

Funny the subject came up.
We are doing a refresh on our rental.
Paint , carpet , ect.
The faucet set in the tub shower had been in since before we owned the place 12 years this year.
I had swapped in new cartridges a couple times.
I decided this time to replace the set.
Stub wall at the control end with 18" and shelves onto the house wall.
The shelves were all held in place with ring shank nails. After destroying the shelves it was time to take the plywood access back off the stub wall.
Yep ring shanks again, though this time I went home and grabbed my Dremel tool and some bits, took the heads off the nails and pulled the panel.
I just know whoever nailed that together was laughing.

At least you have access. The dummies that did our bathroom before we bought the house installed the tub, built a wall, and covered the bottom with ceramic tile. Wallpaper on the top of course.

 

[eldubb440]

Woke up this morning
Smiled with the rising sun
Went to put clothes in the wash
And there's a leak coming from the main feed line where it tees
I will repair it
But it's a PITA and I am not a fan of plumbing
Ok, that's my rant for the day

first world problems...... I'd just have the wife beat my clothes over a rock

 

[Budnicks]

I used to enjoy plumbing, copper or even cast iron drain stuff
when new & not a rebuild, or remodel it's a whole lot cleaner...
I'd rarely ever use any of the PVC/Plastics (ABS was ok but didn't prefer it)
or plastics tubing or pipes of any kind

when they've been around for over 100+ years like Copper & Cast Iron
or black pipe for gas
(some galvanized, rust from the inside out, usually just nipples,
out of the angle-stops, old school, tried & trusted)
I always put isolation valve/s (ball valves instead of gates) in
& usually a union in hard to get to areas too
to make it easy for the next guy, (usually me)
I learned my lessons in commercial 'facility management', make it serviceable...
Home or shop

carry on

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[JackR]

Last year had a fresh water line to the refrigerator that had a slight leak….for a long time until is wasn’t a slow leak.
Black mold. Ate the tile, the drywall, the studs, the cabinets…..
That was not a fun thing to do
Now I pull the refrigerator out every now and then.

 

[Don selleck]

helping my friend with his bathroom, trading him labor to help me sand on my car and assembly. The last guy did this to fix a toliet drain, used a second piece of flooring to shim it, that was set too high off the floor in 1973 when the house was built, Its been screwed up from day one. I ended up cutting a soffit apart in the bathroom below. The issue was a partial floor joist the drain landed on. they hacked it and didn't get the elbow low enough, I simply cut the joist the rest of the way thru and built a box header for the floor, lowered the toilet drain, realigned the new shower drain, and sweated the copper to the new shower faucet, and of course drywall. this is day 5 including demo. he's painting this weekend, flooring trim toilet set and shower door Monday, and possibly part of Tuesday. then back to the Cuda, planning on hitting it hard for the rest of April and May.

 

[moparedtn]

Lfelong fire sprinkler guy here. To me, it's all just pipe and fittings...
That said, when I put this house up here 25 years ago, I did it all with pex and
knock wood, only one leak in all these years (which was quickly remedied with a
shark bite/gator bite type fitting).
Pex is far more temperature resistant and doesn't degrade like other types of piping.

 

[Moms68]

I would not use shark bite fittings that would not be accessible such as inside a wall cavity. They are great for quick repairs but I'm of the opinion that solder is the only sure way to permanently join copper pipes and fittings.

 

[moparedtn]

I would not use shark bite fittings that would not be accessible such as inside a wall cavity. They are great for quick repairs but I'm of the opinion that solder is the only sure way to permanently join copper pipes and fittings.

It's personal preference, but I'm a bit less confident in their use on "hard" pipe as I am on Pex.
Pex, 100% no worries ever for me.

 

[Triplegreen500]

I've used them on dozens of hard pipe (cpvc and copper) in the last 5 years and zero leaks so far.

Again - I anchor the pipes coming in at both ends so no flex at all, but no problems.

 

[jimbosride]

Went to hook up the sink in my wife hair salon... The building owner said " I got a plumbing dude" That can handle it.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

I’m not a fan of plumbing and need to get a pic of one job I have been putting off for years. I’ve always lived in old houses where the plumbing job is rarely as simple as it seems.

I kind of like electrical tho, I’m not licensed but have fixed/diagnosed problems right behind the guy with a license.

 

[kiwigtx]

Woke up this morning
Smiled with the rising sun
Went to put clothes in the wash
And there's a leak coming from the main feed line where it tees
I will repair it
But it's a PITA and I am not a fan of plumbing
Ok, that's my rant for the day

My wife woke me at around 5am a few weeks ago to the toilet cistern over-flowing. The internal flexible hose had split just inside the fitting, and a mains pressure style spray was flowing out the top like crazy. Luckily my Plumber had installed a small ball valve inside the cistern, and so I was able to shut the water off, and fortunately I had a spare flexible hose at hand. Went back to bed wet & cold about 40 minutes later....after much cursing & swearing.

 

[kiwigtx]

You should see all the copper for our new boiler install years ago. It's a 4 zone system and it's all copper. I should be down polishing it right now.

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That's not your boiler....that's your moonshine still setup.

 

[BB BELLA]

sharkbites are junk, if you disagree you just haven't had experience with them! if I ran an insurance company that would be the first thing I'd make people sign off on"no sharkbite fittings in the house" or you get no water damage ins!

 

[toolmanmike]

That's not your boiler....that's your moonshine still setup.

 

[moparedtn]

sharkbites are junk, if you disagree you just haven't had experience with them! if I ran an insurance company that would be the first thing I'd make people sign off on"no sharkbite fittings in the house" or you get no water damage ins!

In my 1999 built house with all pex plumbing, I've had 3-4 of the original crimp connections fail over the years
(shark bites didn't really come around here until around 2004). Once the 3rd crimp failed in 2005 though, I went
through the entire house and replaced any readily accessible fittings with shark bites.
("Inhabited" portions of the house, in other words).
20 years later, zero failures. As in none...