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15 Genius Plumbing Hacks!

what's up guys and welcome back to another plumbing tricks video if the water coming in your house is harsh you might have had this problem happened to you already if you're trying to get your toilet bowl cleaned with a brush or cloth and it's just not working get yourself some 2,000 grit sandpaper and lightly scrub the water mark until it comes off the sandpaper soft enough not to damage the porcelain yet rough enough to remove harsh watermarks like this with no strain pretty neat huh if you're trying to remove a sharkbite fitting that's too close to a wall and can't fit your dedicated removal tool get a good length of cord and wrap it behind the fitting and use a flossing motion to remove it it'll pop right off drilling out large sized holes with a battery-operated drill could be quite demanding to ease the process remove your hole saw and drill for relief holes on the perimeter of the hole using the center bit it'll allow for the sawdust to exit from the back of the holes and make the process a whole lot easier if ever you're going to install a chrome flange like this one and it doesn't want to seem to go on turn it around and enlarge the hole first it'll make it a lot easier to put it on the right way afterwards if you need to solder a vertical joint on a pipe filled with water get yourself a 12 inch section of pecs and use your thumb at the end of the pipe to suck any water out to be able to solder and then proceed to soldering if you got some hair stuck in your lavatory or shower drain here's a pretty cool trick to unblock it grab a tie wrap and notch it every inch or so with a sharp utility knife the hair will catch on the sharp notches and allow you to pull them out without a fuss if you suspect having a leaky toilet flapper grab a few drops of food coloring and add some to the reservoir if you see the colored water in the bowl after a few hours without flushing you need to replace your flapper forgetting to put your belt on before leaving work is a possible thing but if you're a plumber it's your lucky day wrap a good length of solder and double it up you can use it as a for a belt to finish off your day sometimes your faucets aerator could get blocked with debris now you could try to remove it by hand but using a pair of adjustable pliers is a lot easier instead of using the jaws turn the pliers around and use the rubber-coated handles to grasp it you'll have a much better grip and you won't have to force as much if you have a leaky shutoff valve and you don't know how to solder get yourself a 3/8 inch piggyback valve and install it over the old one you could close the new valve and it'll stop the leak until you reconnect it if you have a water meter in your home here's a neat trick to check if you have a leak somewhere take down the number written on the meter and come back after a few hours if the numbers changed you should consider investigating your showerhead lost some pressure over time here's a cool trick to restore it remove the head and store it in a plastic bag filled with white vinegar for a full day and reinstall it afterwards it'll break down any deposits and restore full pressure if you cut some all thread and try to screw a nut on but you're having trouble here's the fix thread your nut on first then cut it and remove the nut it'll rethread the cut portion and it'll allow you to install a nut a lot easier on this way if ever you're trying to solder and can't seem to stop the water here's a last case scenario option get yourself a compression valve and install it a bit further down the line you're trying to solder you'll be able to close it and stop the water from leaking and lastly if you're on a solar project and encounter a stubborn manufacture sticker as seen here get your torch to burn off the paper and use some soldering flux to take care of the glue easy as 1-2-3 and if you guys liked these trick videos make sure to give it a big thumbs up and share it with your friends and until the next one thanks for watching

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How to Fix Common Leaks

okay so I'm going to talk for a few minutes about how to fix some of the most common plumbing leaks that you might see in your home or business okay but first before I go into that I should talk about the types of joints that you have when we say joints in the plumbing world we're talking about connections between pipes of like or unlike materials so the most common one of the most common is what we call it IPs joint IPS stands for iron pipe size this being an iron pipe this is most likely found in gas which is a no-no so stay away from it but this also translates to other pipes too you could have a brass pipe all right exactly the same as this which is called a nipple but this would be made out of brass that would be found in the water distribution system okay this is a three quarter IPS steel nipple you could just dis Ainley have a three quarter IPS brass nipple so let's just assume this nipple is brass okay and when you have a leak on something like this as long as it's not decayed or old banged up or dented or otherwise destroyed okay you can seal that leak by doing two things one is teflon tape okay this is a non sticky type of sealing tape okay I always try to take the first few inches of it off and get rid of it cuz it's been dusty okay what you want to do is you can see that tape is just kind of laid on the tip of my finger I would take the pipe that I'm going to be sealing and wrap the tape around it three times one in the direction of the joint in it so turning clockwise to three a lot of amateurs and homeowners will try to mummify the threads of these things in tape it's just not necessary three is the number now that could actually serve that could be enough but I also like to use pipe dope the amusingly named pipe dope or pipe thread sealant okay and again same as a kind of in my video about soldering a joint you don't need a ton of this stuff the first three the first three threads are more than enough when you take your master with the city of New York they'll actually fail you for using too much of this okay so it's kind of go gently around and make sure that you've got a film of it on these threads so now you've got a sealed joint okay now if we were taking this if it were brass and we're screwing it into a fitting in the wall we're turning a clockwise into the fitting and you're going to feel it stop it's going to be too much for your hands to do that's when your trusty channel locks come in or a wrench you would grab down and turn it in a lot of people use like The Incredible Hulk type strength to turn these things in it's not necessary these threads you can see this side better they're tapered okay as you turn a nipple in an IPS nipple in those threads we'll bury into the fitting you'll leave about four threads it's enough it's enough you don't need to kill it you don't need to put it in there like it's never ever going to come out of there again just snug is good if you have to do it more than that there's something wrong maybe you've damaged the threads or maybe you know the fitting it may be the fitting is bad maybe the threads are damaged so you don't need to kill it putting it in there that's an IPS joint another type of joint that you'll see in the plumbing system is a compression joint now a compression joint works on a very very different different mechanism okay this here is a 3/8 what we call a 3/8 compression coupling coupling meaning it joins two sections of 3/8 pipe together all right this works on a nut in ferrule system this is the nut and this is the ferrule this little brass ring what happens with this type of joint notice threads are only in this nut to hold the ferrule down to the pipe it's kind of a neat way of working they call a compression because when you slip this nut over the pipe followed by the ferrule now we're over a pipe and we're going to thread it on to this coupling okay as you turn this nut down that brass ring that brass ferrule inside actually crushes down to the pipe wall and it crushes down so tight it crushes down so tight that it effectively makes one piece of pipe once you crush the ferrule down to the pipe it's on the pipe forever if you need to make a repair you have to get rid of it cut in another joint and then fix it that way but that's another type of joint so this would be the other side you put your nut over the pipe first followed by the ferrule and thread it on and then you would kind of hold back with two pair of channellocks or two adjustable wrenches and just join that together it's a very very tight leak what we call a mechanical joint this is a mechanical joint the last joint that you would see with some exceptions in the plumbing system is the one that we covered earlier the soldered joint this is generally seen on any pipe from half-inch up to six seven eight inch six or seven eight inch pipe is going to be about that wide around and a lot of times you see a different type of mechanical joint with them as well but for your purposes doing a home repair that's going to be completely irrelevant but this is your typical half-inch joint here soldered joint and if you had a leak in a solder joint that would indicate either a poorly soldered joint the first place or just aged corrosion in which case you would get like let's say this 90 was leaking right here we would cut out the affected area right and install a new 90 and join it okay and solder it much the way we did in the other video and that is how you would fix a leaking pipe

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How Plumbing Works

supply and wastewater never meet so we've gone through all kinds of plumbing acrobatics over the decades to make sure that the wastewater from your building doesn't contaminate the water supply that we all share one of the ways we do it is really quite simple it's an air gap between the the faucet and any kind of basin so that air gap makes sure that if the basin backs up the faucet isn't buried in the water and therefore won't be a opportunity to siphon dirty water back into our municipal supply we've come a long way and cholera is something that we just don't really see anymore and that's pretty remarkable I mean the thing about plumbing is the more I study it the less interesting it is but the more fascinating it is to me that we actually pulled this off because it's an amazing feat and when you see that you know at the end of the last century at the end of the 2000s I saw the end of the you know end of the 19th 1999 at the New York New Year's I saw all kinds of greatest accomplishments of the 20th century and greatest engineering achievements and so forth and plumbing was always really high up usually like second or third I mean it was often above computing and above aircraft and above automobiles telephones all kinds of things that we think of as being frankly a little bit more technologically important but just providing clean drinking water to our buildings and then being able to get waste water away from our buildings in a sanitary way that's a really big deal the second way we do that is with what's called a backflow preventor there's several different flavors of backflow preventor but one of them is called a vacuum breaker and that's what you see here in the middle image it's in this case it's a toilet so what happens is and I'll show you an example in a little bit the way a backflow preventer works is the water moves one way the way it's supposed to run and everything works fine should water back up should there be a siphon that may take unsanitary back to our supply system then instead of pulling from the water a little a little kind of mechanism makes it so that air fills the pipe so water moves one way but if it backs up the water isn't allowed to move in air enters the system and and allows the siphon to draw air instead of water where this might be a problem is well say there's you know the fire department might often usually almost always uses the same supply system that buildings use so if there's let's say a fire in the neighborhood you wouldn't want to condition where the fire department is using the hoses and it's creating a negative pressure and everything and it's actually trying to suck back we don't want that we don't want a situation where for instance a hose is been used to fill a baby pool the baby pool has been sitting there for three weeks because you went on vacation forgetting about it and now the holes in the algae filled baby pool water if there's a fire in the neighborhood we don't want a negative pressure on the supply line that would actually suck the algae filled water back through the supply system we'd rather not have that so that's what we use something like a vacuum breaker this is a good time to introduce types of valves we have a gate valve we have a globe valve and we have a check valve each serves a specific purpose and frankly these are kind of old-fashioned names for them they've since been superseded the gate valve looks like a gate I'm going to screws down into the shut-off position it pretty much sets everything else and when it opens up it you see kind of stays out of the way and doesn't add a lot of friction to the system we use gate valves we engage gate valves if we want to do maintenance on the system so there may be one for the whole building and there's probably also one for each of the appliances inside the building we can shut off the gate valve to say our dishwasher and then we can do maintenance to our dishwasher or we can shut off the gate valve to say our entire building and then we could do maintenance to the entire building now the globe valve is kind of the opposite the gate valve is not made to be used all the time it's not made to be a particularly comfortable mode of turning on and off the water and you have to turn and turn and turn is this gate screws in and to engage and screws out to retract the globe valve is a bit different the globe valve is what we might use for sail faucet in the case of the globe valve if you look at it you can see as water moves through it there's quite a lot of friction but it's made for repeated use so it's made to be comfortable it's made so you don't have to unscrew it too many times to open it up and we're not too worried about the extra friction because it's like a faucet where it's only really at the end of the line for one particular fixture a gate valve may be in line for the entire building so we wouldn't want it to create a lot of friction downstream the third type of valve is called a check valve and check valve is a backflow preventer much like the vacuum breaker and you could see the waters allowed to move one direction but not the other and often what happens is right when the water moves into the building there's a check valve and that check valve is required by code because it wants to make sure that if for some reason there was a siphon it's one more way to make sure that we're not contaminating from our building the water supply for the other the other people in the municipality let's go ahead and do number 36 number 36 reads a water tank is 75 feet above a fixture what will the pressure be at the fixture you may ignore losses from friction for this exercise and we're given a formula that pressure is equal to zero point four three three times height go ahead and hit pause all right let's go over number 36 and the municipality here's how it generally works we have a reservoir we have a water tower we have a pump that takes water up to the water tower and it holds it in the water tower and the water tower is often on top of the hill then somewhere else lower than the water tower we have our building and we have a fixture in this case the fixture is 75 feet below the top of the water and water seeks its own level the amount of pressure in the fixture is a function of the height of the water above the texture the higher the water the more the pressure

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