Hello, folks, Dave Schuelke here with the Twin Home Experts wanted to take a moment and
give you the insight on how to install a pex pipe.
Alright folks, so some of the tools that you're going to need in order to perform a proper PEX pipe
installation is the proper cutting tools. You can't just use a saw or a pair of
scissors. This precisely cuts it nice and clean so you make your connections it's
less likely that it's going to leak. Second tool you'll need is actually a
crimping tool this is what compresses these rings pipe to the fitting and what
this is going to do is make sure that you've got a joint that's not going to
leak. All right well, you might want to consider a tape measure as well but other than that as long as you've
got those two top tools you're ready to start. Alright folks so as you can see
I'm using a plastic pecs fitting. We used to use a lot of brass and felt that that
was the best fit but nowadays now that they've taken most of the lead out
of these fittings I feel like the structural integrity of these type of
fittings are not there so especially with hard water love plastic fittings
very resilient to corrosion not gonna wear and tear so plastic to me in this
day and age is a great option. Alright let's get right down to the connection.
The first thing you're gonna do is you're gonna slide the crimping ring
over the pipe now you can see the cut is very straight that's very important if
you cut these at an angle and it's not straight more than likely this joints
gonna leak. So make sure again you use this to make your cut
now you slide your ring over now you're ready to go ahead and slide the pipe all
the way up against the fitting if you come a little closer Wyatt
get a little bit better visual then what you're gonna do is you're gonna slide
the ring to about like that a little bit of a space alright so now we're ready to
use the crimping tool and let us show you. Alright folks so a little bit of a
trick to these crimping tools this particular model here requires a quick
little adjustment first. As you see we've opened it up and it engages and opens
the closet right there so again let's do it one more time so we open and then it
engages for he crimping tool to now be in a mode where we can go ahead and
crimp all right so what you want to do then is just slide the clipping tool
over the coupling just like that and once you line it up precisely on the
crimping ring then it's just a matter of squeezing and compressing the crimping
tool just like that and it'll let you know when it stopped then what you do is
take both hands open it up and as you can see we've got a perfectly tight
connection there. Alright now let's go ahead and do a install inside the wall.
Alright guys so here's my pipe I need to raise this up because of the new vanity
so again what we're going to use is our proper cutting tool we're going to open
this up a bit I'm gonna hold the pipe and then again really important that we
cut this straight in order to do that make sure that the cutting tool is nice
and straight then you're ready to make your cut alright just like that alright
now that we've now that we've prefabbed our piece we can go ahead now and slide
this down inside the wall go ahead and just eyeball this to the
cold water line as you can see there then what we're going to do is we're
going to bring the pipe that we cut and knead it up with the new pipe put your
finger on it like that and then you're gonna grab your tool again and make your
cut just like that now you're ready to join the two together okay go ahead and
do that let's get our ring alright there's a ring on this point now we need
our coupling which is right here
slide that together again make sure you don't have any debris or anything that
may cause any water migration okay alright now we're ready to go ahead and
crimp this side and folk so again push out this opens it and then what's good
about it again once you set that ring down at the bottom just release the top
of the crimping tool and it'll lock it in place okay again you want to make
sure you line it up precisely now two hands just crimp it all the way down
until the handles meet and there we go alright so let's go ahead now and
utilize this get inside the wall to finish our connection alright folks
again sliding this over the pipe
push the coupling down to the right all right now that we've got lined up we're
ready to go ahead and push down on it
all right folks well there you have it hopefully this gave you the inside on
how to install PEX piping what we're gonna do now is simply just strap and
secure everything and we're good to go. Hey if you like this video give us
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