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Replacing Fill Valve in Toilet Tank Plumbing contractors, San Jose, CA (408) 432-1412 or (650) 242-6054 Hi Guys, this video explains how to replace the toilet fill valve at the house. Make sure you don't use plumber's putty! The gasket won't make a good seal, and you'll have a leak using plumber's seal. Thank you for watching, we'll see you on the next video! If you need a plumber to replace the toilet fill valve, call us at (408) 432-1412, (650) 242-6054 or visit us online: www.donerightrooter.com

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Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Upgrading a bathroom is one of the more popular home improvement projects. Handling the plumbing for draining your shower can be exceedingly simple unless you go overboard.

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Whether you are a bathtub or shower person, most people look for shower only options when buying a home. This simple fact means more than a few homeowners spend a weekend upgrading or installing showers in their bathrooms. Fortunately for you, it is a fairly simple process.

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Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

A collector or pan refers to the horizontal surface located at the bottom of the shower. The collector typically consists of a non-slip surface slightly banked towards the center or wherever the drain is located. Combined with three to four inch walls around the side, the goal of your shower drainage plumbing is to get the water to flow to and down the drain.

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

You can physically build a collector for your new shower, but you really need to think about it. Do you really want to get into the complications of getting the sloping correct, not to mention making sure every aspect of it is waterproof? And I mean every aspect! It is much easier to simply buy a pre-cast collector online or at your local Lowes, Home Depot or hardware store. Building one might sound like a great idea, but you will probably feel differently after a couple of hours.

Regardless of how you go about getting a pan, you should make every effort to use one that has the drain located in the same spot as the original pan. Moving the drain pipes can be a task, particularly if the builder used a unique framing structure. If you are determined to move the drain, you are going to have to cut back the pipe or lengthen it, which may mean ripping up large chunks of the floor. Put another way, you are going to be looking at a multiple weekend project.

Assuming we have our drain lined up, the actual hook up is fairly simple. The drainage pipe should be facing vertical up to the collector. It will often look like a "U", which means it acts as a cleanout to keep nasty smells from coming back up from the drain. To connect the drain, you are going to create a water tight connection between a drain cap on the top of the pan and the drainage pipe. Systems vary, but you are typically going to do this by putting a coupling piece on the top of the drainage pipe. This is then covered with gaskets and literally screwed into the drain cap. The drain cap should act as a locknut, to wit, it screws directly onto the coupling.

The tricky part of this process is getting your drain cap to fit into a watertight position in the pan. This is accomplished by backing off the drain cap once you are sure everything fits together. At that point, you put plumbers putty around the underside of the cap and then screw it back on. The putty should form a tight seal between the cap and the shower pan, which keeps water from trickling under it and into the framing under the shower.

Obviously, bathroom showers come in a wide variety of styles these days. If you purchase a collector, they almost always come with plumbing instructions or the store can note anything unusual you should know. It sounds complex, but is typically pretty straight forward. Have fun!

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

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How To Make A Nice Lamp From Simple Cheap Items

How To Make A Nice Lamp From Simple Cheap Items Video Clips. Duration : 15.27 Mins.

This is a step-by-step video on how to make a pretty lamp, using simple, cheap items. The items you will need to do this project are.... a glass bottle, shoe polish, masking tape, egg shells, all-purpose glue, mod podge sealer, twine, a drill, a masonry drill bit, plumber's putty, a soft cloth, and a lamp fixture set.

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Sink Drain Repair - How to Fix A Leaky Sink Drain Basket

Repairing a leaky drain basket is actually more complicated than repairing sink pipes. Usually, the most common cause of the plumbing leakage is a loose pipe connection. This problem can be easily overcome by tightening the nut that holds the pipe joints together or by winding up a plumber's tape around the connection. Below is a step-by-step instruction on how to fix sink leaks.

Sink Drain Repair - How to Fix A Leaky Sink Drain Basket

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Sink Drain Repair - How to Fix A Leaky Sink Drain Basket

Sink Drain Repair - How to Fix A Leaky Sink Drain Basket

1. Detach the nuts which connect the sink plumbing with the basket strainer using a pair of slip joint pliers. Also detach the nuts which connect the trap and the pipe leading to the house drain. Remove the basket and the trap from the sink plumbing for getting clearer sight.

2. Detach the cardboard washer and rubber washer from the basket by loosening the large nut which secures the washers.

3. Use a rubber mallet or other hard but non destructive tool to remove the plumber's putty which seals the sink basket and the sink together. Scrape of the remaining putty residue around the sink hole with a putty knife.

4. Once the drain basket flange has been removed, you should check it thoroughly for rust or other damages. In most cases, leakages are caused by the water flowing out of the cracks in the plumber's putty seal. If this is the cause of the problem, simply put the drain basket back to its place and seal the parts properly with the putty. On the other hand, if the flange is already rusted, cracked, or damaged, replace it with a new one then repeat the same procedure to install the parts back properly.

5. To strengthen the connection of the sink drain, apply a thin rope of plumber's putty beneath the drain basket flange. For PVC pipes, this method is sufficient enough for preventing further leakages. However, if your sink drain uses metal pipes, plumber's tape applied onto the drain connection will help to strengthen the joints.

6. Place the drain basket back into its proper place. For safe installation, you can ask a family member to hold the sink in place while you attach the plumbing. Don't forget to put back the cardboard washer and rubber washer that you removed previously. If you use new drain basket to replace the damaged one, use the new rubber washer that comes with it.

7. Place back all the nuts to their original positions and make sure all of them are installed tightly and correctly. Before cleaning up, make sure there are no more leakages in the sink drain basket or pipe connection.

Sink Drain Repair - How to Fix A Leaky Sink Drain Basket

Kitchen faucet Trouble shoot

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www.plumberx.comHello this is PlumberX. People always ask me what gave you the idea and what made you create these how to plumbing videos? Coming up with the idea was easy. After many years as a plumber and servicing customers at there home I've seen a lot of people in tuff situations, people that could not afford a plumber, people that didn't have time to wait for a plumber to come to there home and make repairs, hearing horror stories of Plumbers that have rip off costumers and gave bad service, to me this was a loud cry for help. One story come to mind; A friend of mine calls me and ask, PlumberX could you do me a favor and help this older lady that I know, and go by and look at her Plumbing, she needs plumbing work really bad but she's to scared to call a plumber because of the cost, and she know that if I send you over there to check out the plumbing she can trust me as a friend recommending you, sure I said I could do that. The next day came and I went to the older lady's home she came to the door with a pleasant smile very humble. I could see it in her eye's she didn't have to say a word ( What is this going to cost ) she was very polite and courteous. Sir would you like some thing to drink and I do appreciate you coming to check out my plumbing on such short notice. No problem mam, lets see what's going on here with your plumbing. This way Sir in the kitchen. As I walk through the home I saw in the corner of my eye younger children around 3, 5 and 6 years of age ...

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How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

If you are considering upgrading your bathroom and kitchen sink faucets, you have come to the right place. The following explanation will make your task much easier and will save your time as well.

How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

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How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

However, before we start, make sure that you have following materials ready with you.

- New faucet assembly

- Basin wrench

- Adjustable wrenches

- Slip-joint pliers

- Scouring pad

Now follow these simple steps. (Assuming that you are replacing the old two-handled faucet with the more modern single-handled type)

Replacing Kitchen Sink Faucets
1. Before you start, go at the shut-off valves under the sink, and turn off the water.

2. Open the faucet so that it could drain any excess water.

3. The next step is to disconnect the hot and cold water supply lines from the shutoff valves. You can use a small adjustable-wrench to do this.

4. Reach up behind the faucet. You will find the coupling nuts that connect the supply tubes to the faucet. Unscrew the same using a basin wrench.

5. Behind the faucet, you will also find mounting nuts that hold the faucet in place. Remove these nuts using the same basin wrench.

6. Now that you have disconnected the mounting nuts, you can lift out the old faucet. Lifting it out, disconnect the sprayer hose from the assembly using an adjustable wrench.

7. Lift out the sprayer hose, and remove the faucet.

8. Once you have removed the faucet, clean the surface of the sink thoroughly with a scouring pad.

9. Remove the escutcheon cap and replace the same with the one that is included with your new faucet.

10. Now you are ready to make the new connection. Bring your new sprayer hose, and slip it down through the sprayer hole.

11. Feed the sprayer hose up through the center faucet hole, and connect the hose through the sprayer nipple using an adjustable wrench.

12. If the hot and cold supply tubes of the new faucet have a different length, attach flexible connectors to the fittings on the supply tubes. Hold the faucet fitting stationary with one wrench and tighten each connection with another wrench.

13. Insert and feed the supply lines and the connectors into the center hole, and then seat the faucet.

14. Now crawl up under the sink and in order to hold the faucet in place, install a washer and nut to the end bolts.

15. First, tighten the nuts by hand, and then with a basin wrench.

16. Connect the supply lines to the shutoff valves, and turn the water on.

17. Turn on the faucet and check for leaks.

Replacing Bathroom Sink Faucets
1. Go underneath the sink. Turn off the water. Loosen the collar nuts on the drainpipe.

2. Drain any excessive water, and then remove the drainpipe.

3. Loosen the nuts that hold the pop-up assembly in place under the sink using slip-joint pliers.

4. Unscrew the pop-up flange in order to free the assembly underneath the sink.

5. Remove the fittings that join the supply lines of the old faucet to the shutoff valves, using a wrench.

6. Repeat the steps 4-15 as explained above for replacing kitchen faucet.

7. Now, you have to install the pop-up assembly.

8. Push the pop-up rod down through the body of the faucet.

9. Attach the flat bar.

10. At the bottom of the new flange, use a little plumber's putty to hold the tailpiece so that the whole assembly protrudes up through the drain hole in the sink.

11. Spin the ring to position the same with the tailpiece under the sink.

12. In order to secure pop-up housing in place, tighten the nut on top of the tailpiece.

13. Hook up the pop-up lever onto the flat bar in order to secure it to the pop-up housing.

14. Drop the stopper into the drain hole.

15. Replace the drainpipe.

16. Tighten the collar nuts.

17. Turn on the faucet and check for leaks.

Hence, replacing a kitchen and a bathroom faucet is almost similar except for the work related to the pop-up assembly that is included with the bathroom sink.

How Plumbers Replace Bathroom and Kitchen Sink Faucets

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Upgrading a bathroom is one of the more popular home improvement projects. Handling the plumbing for draining your shower can be exceedingly simple unless you go overboard.

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

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Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

Whether you are a bathtub or shower person, most people look for shower only options when buying a home. This simple fact means more than a few homeowners spend a weekend upgrading or installing showers in their bathrooms. Fortunately for you, it is a fairly simple process.

A collector or pan refers to the horizontal surface located at the bottom of the shower. The collector typically consists of a non-slip surface slightly banked towards the center or wherever the drain is located. Combined with three to four inch walls around the side, the goal of your shower drainage plumbing is to get the water to flow to and down the drain.

You can physically build a collector for your new shower, but you really need to think about it. Do you really want to get into the complications of getting the sloping correct, not to mention making sure every aspect of it is waterproof? And I mean every aspect! It is much easier to simply buy a pre-cast collector online or at your local Lowes, Home Depot or hardware store. Building one might sound like a great idea, but you will probably feel differently after a couple of hours.

Regardless of how you go about getting a pan, you should make every effort to use one that has the drain located in the same spot as the original pan. Moving the drain pipes can be a task, particularly if the builder used a unique framing structure. If you are determined to move the drain, you are going to have to cut back the pipe or lengthen it, which may mean ripping up large chunks of the floor. Put another way, you are going to be looking at a multiple weekend project.

Assuming we have our drain lined up, the actual hook up is fairly simple. The drainage pipe should be facing vertical up to the collector. It will often look like a "U", which means it acts as a cleanout to keep nasty smells from coming back up from the drain. To connect the drain, you are going to create a water tight connection between a drain cap on the top of the pan and the drainage pipe. Systems vary, but you are typically going to do this by putting a coupling piece on the top of the drainage pipe. This is then covered with gaskets and literally screwed into the drain cap. The drain cap should act as a locknut, to wit, it screws directly onto the coupling.

The tricky part of this process is getting your drain cap to fit into a watertight position in the pan. This is accomplished by backing off the drain cap once you are sure everything fits together. At that point, you put plumbers putty around the underside of the cap and then screw it back on. The putty should form a tight seal between the cap and the shower pan, which keeps water from trickling under it and into the framing under the shower.

Obviously, bathroom showers come in a wide variety of styles these days. If you purchase a collector, they almost always come with plumbing instructions or the store can note anything unusual you should know. It sounds complex, but is typically pretty straight forward. Have fun!

Handling Your Own Shower Drain Installation Project

How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

Single lever faucets were introduced during the 1950s and this type of plumbing fixtures allow control of water temperature with just one lever. The previous models used employ the use of two taps to separate hot and cold water.

How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

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How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

A single kitchen faucet lever is also very easy to operate especially during those hectic moments in the kitchen when you find yourself elbow deep in grease or soap.

Do you want to have this type of fixture on your kitchen countertop?

If so then you can purchase yourself one in the style and make you want and prepare to install it yourself. How?

The procedure is very straightforward and if you are handy with tools, you can pull this job by yourself without any hassle. What are the tools you need?

• The fixture itself
• A sharp knife
• Plumber's tape
• Rags and cleaner
• Two water supply hoses
• Silicone caulk and caulk gun
• An adjustable wrench
• A pair of pliers

Now the installation procedure:

1. Turn off the sink's water source which is usually found underneath. You'll see two valves: one each for the hot and cold water supplies, make sure to turn both valves off.
2. With the rags and cleaner, wipe the countertop clean. This will eliminate all matter or substance that would prevent a tight seal.
3. Check the bottom of the single lever faucet, to see where the inlets for water supply are. Then with your caulk gun, apply a thin layer of silicone caulk along the rim of the fixture's base edge.
4. Now mount the fixture on the countertop while making sure that the inlets are aligned with the countertop holes. Press the fixture down to keep it in place and properly bonded with the silicone.
5. Get under the sink and thread the retaining nuts onto the inlets. Tighten the nuts using the pliers.
6. Wrap plumber's tape around the inlet threads and the water supply valve threads.
7. You have two water supply hoses for both hot and cold water valves. Get one hose and attach the end with metal coupling to the water supply inlet. Tighten with the wrench. The plastic end should be attached to one of the water inlets at the bottom of the fixture.
8. Turn the water supply on.
9. Let the water run by opening the tap and check below the sink for leaks.

To avoid staining your sink, don't wipe away excess caulk. Instead, let it dry and cut it away using a sharp knife. Also, if you don't have silicone caulk, you may use plumber's putty. Be careful not to tighten nuts too much when installing a kitchen faucet lever.

How Do You Install a Single Kitchen Faucet Lever? Tips for the Avid Do-It-Yourself Person

How to Replace a Faucet-Home 101

How to Replace a Faucet-Home 101 Video Clips. Duration : 3.17 Mins.

Lowe's Home 101 experts, Joel and Courtney, demonstrate how to remove and install a new kitchen faucet. If your current kitchen faucet is dripping, you might be in need of a new faucet. Before starting, see how many holes are in your sink to find a faucet that will fit correctly. Then, make sure that the water is shut off. Remove the old faucet and put in the new one. Put in place the correct mounting hardware and use any plumbers putty or caulk to prevent water leaks. Now your kitchen sink should look brand new. For more helpful Home 101 videos, visit www.Lowes.com

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VISIT OUR WEBSITE! DunbarPlumbing.com OR OUR PLUMBING FORUM! DunbarPlumbingForums.com NORTHERN KENTUCKY PLUMBERS The video shows firsthand how plumbers putty can break down over a short period of time and causes leaks at connecions that need to stay waterproof. Putty can also cause problems with synthetic marble or granite, plastic or composite whereby the ILO basis of plumbers putty can slowly leach into the sink's surface and causes issues with staining or material breakdown. Often, plumbers will recommend a "new" type of plumbers putty that is not damaging to the above type of sinks. Too often with both products, the material hardens over a short time and does not perform the function that the product should provide, at least as long as the disposal/strainer or any other type ofinstallation is involved. For some areas across the nation and the globe, plumbers putty is a code requirement. Proper amounts of putty when used is crucial, most times issues arise from using too much putty which can cause leaks over time. We welcome any questions or opinions on this video, we are sure that people will argue the benefits of putty as it is a hotly debated topic on plumbing forums across the internet. Dunbar Plumbing for a number of years used plumbers putty but the reasonable choice these days for reliability is silicone sealant. A product that aging along quite well and is resistant to water simply by it's chemical makeup. Contact Dunbar Plumbing @ 859-359-4833 to schedule ...

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