Post Tricks Of The Plumbing Trade Here.

Ron The Plumber

UPC 606.2

Copper Water Tube Joints in copper water tube shall be made by the appropriate use of approved fittings properly soldered or brazed together.

Your way is not an approved fitting.

AJX4

And I know exactly this situation; idiot trim guy shoots a nail through the trim board right above the bottom plate and you cannot cut into the plate or access from underneath to do a 2 coupling repair. Cutting out the 2by4 would be nice but if your' pulln the toilet or moving a cabinet, against a tub with no way for a sawsnall or minihack, you improvise. fear of causing a fire can also be a consideration when dealing with pvc in the mix. I've never done your method but I can see where the event could play out and be better than some plumbers actually solder. Improper method is seen too much in my area and those ringed solder connections is just poor makeup of the joint, contamination or too lazy to sand. I ever catch a plumber not sanding pipe or fittings because their new I'm firing them on the spot. My guys know better than that nonsense BS.

smellslike$tome

Discovered this today. Sorry if it's already been posted but I didn't feel like reading all 7 pages. If done very carefully, you can drive a talon strap (snail clamp or whatever you may call them) nail into a mortar joint. I suspect that this may not always work depending on how the mortar was mixed and how long ago but today I got caught without any other means of strapping a 6' piece of pex pipe so I tried it. First one went in like a champ, second went half way in and then I bent the nail, carefully pulled it out, tried number three in the same hole and it worked like a dream. Now I don't really know how long it will take the nail to corrode away but I'm thinking a loooooong time. I was surprised it even worked at all but it did.

__________________
Looking For A Birmingham Plumber The Best Plumbing in Alabama

plumbmaster

old rusted out pop up nut cant be removed, or once you remove the nut you cant get the top off. most people get out the mini hacksaw and cut for 30 -45 min very annoying. now all you have to do is get out you dremel or rotory drill and install a metel grinding disk and slowly cut away inside of pop up. this takes practice and you will break alot of disk at first. do not force disk let it do the work. place spinning disk down inside pop up from top and cut metal or plastic between overflow holes on pop up after 2 cuts pop up falls apart. I dont even try to remove nut any more 20-30 seconds and pop up is cut.

plumbmaster

if you do scratch any porceline you can use pumice stone to take off scratches with out hurting porceline.

plumbmaster

Iuse a little bit of stem grease on water valves or any water fittings that are compression or threaded. easier to install and take off if you still have that customer 3-10 yrs from now.

Ron The Plumber

Remove the old wax off that wall hung toilet with a torch so the new neoprene gasket will bond to the toilet surface, warm the wax and wipe it off.

I said warm it up don't over heat the porcelain.

plumbsharpWA

Why don't you just use a washer supply line? That would eliminate the hose adapter AND you now have the short hose if floor drain is close by. i felt stupid when it took me loosing 3 hose adapters to figure it out... and 3 trips to supply house( extra long lunch break that i didn't want)!

plumbsharpWA

Thanks for the water heater tricks. Just found this site today. I wish I found it 6 months ago, BEFORE a 78 unit condo conversion. Was running around with 6 garden hoses to try and be efficient at draining and all i needed was a compressor? I guess apprentice is p/c for dumb ass?

Alan1981

Awesome!

Alan1981

thecrow71

You can use your pex tool to reshape soft copper tube 1/2 head for 1/2 cu and so on. Slides right in. Just be sure to not over expand.

cos

I usually use my dremel with the mini cut-off wheel for closet bolts.
Anybody else?
Also works for getting old kitchen faucet nuts off to. (Saves me time anyway).

plumberman

Cutting ductile iron 4" and below. Instead of using the cut off saw. Use your rachet cast iron cutters works everytime.

novicepro

when a piece of bread or those pills or vacuuming isn't stopping that leaky pipe when sweating, put a compression ball valve and stop cussing

stp57

Dremel tool works great, but wear glasses. Those cutting discs will fly when they break.
Steve

MDFinestKid

shark bites are used for domestic hot and cold, not legal in some states. I believe Cali

MDFinestKid

Ever hade a problem with your toilet flanges being to low? Befor setting your toilet flang in the rough break apart a 3" j-hook and place under the flange befor screewing it down. This will rais you flange to floor level.

MDFinestKid

explain what is a pumice stone please for my future use

MDFinestKid

You can also use a water pump with a washing machine hose and will pump out 40 or 50 gallon under 5 mins gaurantee faster than a compressor.