Hello, everybody Roger Wakefield here with Texas Green Plumbing
Want to let you know that
Today we're talking about, what can i do plumbing, myself so if you're a homeowner especially here in the texas area
Where we're located you can actually do just about anything to your plumbing, system that you want to do the thing is you've got to
Get it inspected you've got to get a permit you've got to do everything that a plumber has to do
so let's talk about your plumbing and
What all your plumbing entails so
The waterline let's start there your meter where the city
Tells you how much water you use that water line coming in from there going to to your house, where your valve, box is located
That you are responsible for that line underground and you're responsible for any leaks on your side of the meter so
what it looks like is coming in
Everything there is yours once it comes out of the meter it's yours so the water line coming into your valve box
You're responsible for those valves so if you've got valves there that you can't open or close
That's something that you may, want to change because that's one of my top plumbing tips is
Teach everybody in your family how
To turn off the water to the house and the reason I say that is five or ten minutes can
Make a big difference in how much damage is done if there ever is a water leak in your house so
take a look at that teach your family how to
Shut off the water make sure they all know how
so once it comes in through that valve box then it goes through the distribution
System it goes to your
Hose bibbs it goes to every fixture in the house it goes to your water heater
Your water heater then
Heats up half of it and sends it out to all the hot water outlets in your office or in your house
So all those products are all that all of that system that's all you
Once it hits the drain line, and goes all the way out hopefully you've got a two
Way clean-out either in your front or back yard
But once it hits that
It goes all the way out to the city, tap which is where your sewer line ties into the city
the city's
responsible for the tap
But you're responsible for all the piping from your house out to that and you're responsible for all the drain piping under your house
So if it comes to a slab leak if it comes to
You know a water leak under the house a water leak in the yard a sewer leak in the house the sewer leak under the
Yard all that plumbing is yours now in Texas
If that house is registered as your homestead
You are actually allowed to work on any of that plumbing yourself the good thing about it is
There's not a lot to plumbing as long as it doesn't leak and as long as you know
That the tips the tricks and the tools to do it right
Plumbing is something that you can work on all the time
Main thing
Is make sure you turn the water off before you work on any water lines and
make
Sure you have somebody that are watching or you've double-checked it to make sure that it's not gonna flood
When you go to turn that water line, back on now we've mentioned a, water line we've mentioned a sewer line
the other thing that a homeowner here in Texas is
Responsible for is the gas line, now i know that sounds funny but
from the meter
To the house is yours so if your meters installed either back by the alley or up
By the curb that distribution piping underground, where it goes underground comes up and turns into your house, that's all you
so
You know what we're having a lot of problems in north Dallas right now and explosions
Guys, it's sad but
that piping put in the ground that the Atmos is busy replacing right now, we started putting that piping in
20, 30, 50, 100 years ago
It's steel pipe and steel pipe starts rusting the day you put it in underground
Some residential homes also have, steel pipe distribution system and when we go out
And test them, we left the owner note that, we can't just go in and fix the risers on a chin
We have to replace that service
so
you're responsible
From your side of the meter all the way through
Where it goes to either your water heater your furnace your stove your dryer wherever you
Use gas at so there's a lot of different
aspects to it if your meter is mounted at your house and your line literally comes out of the meter and goes in
The gas company is responsible for that relay, getting the
gas to that meter
When it comes out and comes into your house hopefully there's a valve there if you ever smell
Gas at your house i recommend turning it off right there at the gas meter and then contacting a plumber
If it's an emergency and you don't know how to turn it off call the gas company
Immediately they will turn it off
they
Will put a lock on it and then when you call a plumber to come out and fix it that plumbers gonna have to pull
A permit and get it inspected
The reason being gas is dangerous
now
We get back to the question, what plumbing can i work on myself
You can work on gas you can work on water you can, even work on the drain if you know
Where a slab leak is you can. Jackhammer your floor up you can, tunnel down to it you can fix it and make the repairs
Do a test on it make sure it's not leaking get it inspected
Before you ever cover it back up if it's a
Gas leak and you're comfortable working on it that's one thing i tell people you can work on whatever you're comfortable
Working on so if you're comfortable working on gas you're comfortable working on your water line, you're comfortable working on your sewer you can
do it
Here at texas green plumbing what we're trying to do is we want to get information out to our
consumers to all the consumers to let them know there's a lot of things you can work on yourself
It's not very difficult it's easy to do
And with the right tips the right tricks and the right tools it's things that you can do yourself
What i want you to do is check back on our channel we're, going to be creating do-it-yourself videos we're
Gonna, answer questions we're. Gonna teach you things that you can, do for your plumbing system
To make it to make it better and to save you money
If we can save you money by teaching you little tricks and little tips and little things that you can do you're
Gonna be a more educated consumer
Also will teach you what questions to, ask if you, do have to call a plumber that way you know exactly
What you need, to know to be a wise consumer and on plumbing there's a lot
To know it's not hard to work on if you know. What you're doing but sometimes knowing, what you're doing is the most difficult part
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My name is Roger Wakefield I work at Texas Green Plumbing, where we're saving you money one drop at a time