hey guys my name is Sam welcome back to Green acre homestead we're in the middle
of a budget mobile home renovation and today we are taking a couple of steps
backwards we have to go back and redo some work that we did in the past it's
not fun but we gotta get it done to get started today I've got to clean off this
appliance counter top station thing that we built and it kind of got me thinking
what appliances do you have in your kitchen or your home that you can't live
without historically we're not very big on appliances like gadgets and stuff
like that but we did get the Magic Bullet a couple of weeks ago and I
actually also bought another one that should be here tomorrow I'll save that
one it's not a new gadget at all we're actually probably pretty late to the
kitchen gadget game arena but I did some research and first saw it from another
YouTube channel and I thought wow that looks pretty cool so stay tuned for that
one what appliances do you have in your
kitchen that you love can't live without and you always tell your friends and
family about leave us a comment below and tell us I'd love to read it and we'd
love to hear it whenever we painted the kitchen we had to take this countertop
off and I didn't attach it yet I'm telling you a lie I guess Angela
attached it all right well that's attached that totally changes the whole
situation of the thing
well as you can see how the floor tore up the insulation tore up and I'm
looking at these pipes that's what the problem is
when I did all the plumbing PEX work of the house and everything I ended up
messing up big-time but it's not unfixable what I did was pretty simple
it was an easy mistake that anyone could make and was one that I thought I was
being really careful about not making but I still made it I crossed the hot
and cold lines so everything from this point forward hot is cold and cold is
hot my goal is to pry off the crimp rings from the PEX pipes where I attach
them to the gray pipe Andry crimp them on the right side hopefully this goes
easily and it's not gonna be too big of a pain let's go ahead and hop in it's
probably a good idea to go ahead and turn the water off to the house before I
go cutting in the main water lines wouldn't you think welcome to the well
house so I've got a quick disconnect or a service disconnect right here easy is
done so now the water won't kick on or the well won't kick on and to go ahead
and drain it I've got a sediment filter right here and I'll just open it and
it'll put the water outside
just old guys tractor getting towed behind a truck and backfiring like crazy
all right I'm back in the kitchen I picked up one of these little plastic
pans while I was outside I'm gonna use that to catch all the water in as much
as I can it's time to go ahead and get down here get on the belly use some vice
grips and see how easy these crimps are to get off
so once the top little crimp part has been broken it relieves a lot of the
stress you're able to twist it and turn it and get it off a lot easier this is
the best way I've found to remove these without damaging your couplers your pipe
and everything else there we go one last twist and that's off let's eat here put
that out of the way
and then the rest of this clamp just kind of unwinds from the or unwraps from
the pipe just like that that's not we'll come on I gotta cut that
there I'm not so sure that I have enough of this gray pipe to pull it through and
be able to attach to this red so I think I'm gonna have to add a coupler in this
section as much as I don't want to add another piece another point of possible
failure I am pulling on this gray pipe and it's not budging so I didn't give
myself any extra with that so let's climb up again let's get a
coupler and some more clamps then get back down to the floor
alright three-quarter inch coupler
three-quarter inch clamps
all right so now what I'll do is I'll cut this where it's pretty much close to
the red one so I know that I can kind of move and connect them a little easier
right before I forget this clamps going over there this is going here and the
coupler is going there these bad boys so the way these crimpers work is you put
them in the end of the put the clamp in the end of the jaw and you start pushing
it and they'll start ratcheting once it starts to ratchet it holds it in place
it won't back up or loosen and to go all the way and then right here it pops
loose and lets you take a crimper off it's a way of letting you not under
crimp things there we go one done and we'll do this one good connect OOP
almost forgot put a ring on it
oh here's a look at the top of the tool here and where these little nubs fit in
here and then you're able to squeeze and crimp it that's how that works
one two three squeeze sure gosh it's really hard to do there that's a proper
so one last ring cold line and see if I get these can I twist it over here we go
now they're separated better keep them separated all right
really looking good in you all right you okay there it's good looks good looks
good this little insulation piece still looking good
put this under here to keep these pipe connections from rubbing each other and
creating a hole all right this all looks fine let's go back out in
the wheelhouse and turn the water on
success no leaks awesome woohoo now it's time to put this floor back together
Stratton my wake here look at what I did in the kitchen oh yeah that's one of
those jobs it doesn't feel good to do but it feels good to have it done hope
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