Get Hot and Cold Water to an Outdoor Shower | Part 2 | DIY Plumbing!
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In this video I'm showing you how I installed plumbing, with hot and cold water, for an outdoor shower. Having a shower outdoors in the hot Texas summers feel amazing! Be sure and check out Part 1 of this project, which covers building the structure.
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You should cover the vertical pex lines coming from the house with painted PVC, or something to protect them UV and a string trimmer.
The vertical wood board covers them pretty well.
Fantastic project and outcome! I would add a cover to hide the pipes along the wall that blends in with the siding.
With that shallow trench, you might consider putting the PEX in PVC pipe to keep errant shovels from cutting the PEX lines. Retrofit a guard by cutting a piece of pipe lengthwise.
I'm very impressed how much you've grown as a contractor and a channel! Really impressive work. I watch your stuff all the time. I'm sure you saw the other comments about the PEX not being UV resistant. I just learned this myself this year. It would make a good video showing how to correct that!
Wow! What a great video! Thank you for the time and energy you gave to create it. This is what excellence looks like!
Glad you enjoyed it!
April this is one of the easiest designs with the greatest looks that I think that you have done. Very beautifully done!
Thanks so much!
Great job April, this is such great information and step by step instructions that anyone can follow. We just became aware of your channel and love what you're doing!
Thank you so much!
This is so much better than the ideas I was kicking around! Thanks for making such a luxury accessible!
You're so welcome! I just love it! Thanks for watching.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO! Thanks for sharing! Keep your videos coming!
Looks great April. Sure will be handy to have one. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Great! Thanks for watching.
@@AprilWilkerson why do you only reply to praise comments instead of one's that tell you what you did wrong. Only replies to the comments that say your so wonderful 👏
This is the best design I've ever seen for outdoor showers. The little bench sets it apart from other designs.
Glad you like it!
Love all your projects
Another intresting project from Mrs Wilkerson.
Intresting because :
Very good explanations
Just says what needs to be sayed
Good filming
I recomend this DIY channel
Thumb up from France
Take care and stay safe .
Many thanks!
I have yet to be 'un-impressed'....keep up the excellent work. I love all your videos and have used many of the things you have shown,taught and done yourself. Thanks from Virginia. Hal
Aw thanks! Glad you enjoy my channel. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful workpiece
You make it look easy!!! Great work!
Looks great April, love the videos!
Looks GREAT! What an awesome idea.
You packed a lot of info and tips into that nine and half minutes. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing job April
Love it!
Really Nice Outdoor Shower! Reminds me of the one on Green Acres!🤣
Absolutely beautiful I love it
Love it, Thanks for sharing.
Hi April. Excellent video. I never knew pex was so strong. Looking forward to seeing future projects. Good job.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great video, thank you. Personally I would have done it all in copper pipe, copper fittings and lagged it all. A soldered copper joint is less likely to leak them some of crimp pex fittings, well from experience anyways.
Great job as always!
Another great video Ms April
Thank you!
That shower is awesome, great job and thumbs up !
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
So cool!!!!
I like your "Freeze Test" April! Here in Michigan I definitely have to be concerned about colder temps. I'm surprised PEX did not break too. Very Interesting Video!!!
pex isnt supposed to be in direct contact with the sunlight and uv, should cover up that exposed pex from the wall to the buried part
I thought the same, but knowing her, she already has plans to build a little enclosure around it.
I noticed that in Part 1, but didn't comment on it since I was sure she was going to make sure the PEX was all covered in Part 2.
Interesting, thanks for posting and thumbs up.
Thanks for watching!
Great info, and a very nice project!!!!
Awesome as always! Are you going to cover the exposed PEX that leads from the box to the wall? I figured you'd come up with something creative to cover it. I always look forward to your new projects!
Thank you 😊
I’m so inspired!!!!! You’re so talented!!!
Aw thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Starting out, I didn't know anything but built upon my confidence, experience and tool accumulation. I bought my first tools from yard sales and pawn shops, buying only the tool I needed, then saving for the next one. I learning from my mistakes along the way but if I can do it, anyone can. Enjoy the build. Thanks for watching.
Great job!
Great minds think alike. I Love the content so far. (Especially the folding Adirondack chair.)
Glad you like them!
Very nice and simple
Luv your work ✌🏿
Nicely done. After yard work, this would be great to have instead of tracking dirt all over the house.
Exactly! My folks love theirs and after a day of working in the hot weather on the property it is so refreshing!
Excellent
That's a very good feature.
That looks awesome April. I would love to have something like that but unfortunately it wouldn’t be able to be used for half of the year since I live in Vermont lol. Another great project.
Oh my! Yes, in Texas it can practically be used year around, especially with having hot water. My folk's only wanted the cold well water so only uses theirs in hot summer months. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for another excellent and useful video, April. I scrolled through the notes and comments and may have missed it, but what's the make and model of the shower mixing valve you installed? Thanks again!
Another comment in the UV parade. A couple of years ago I replaced my pipes with PEX from the meter to the house, switched to iron pipe where I came out of the ground and into the house then switched back to PEX inside the house. Outdoor utility sink got plumbed with iron pipe then went back underground and switched back to PEX for the backyard, hose bibs came above ground with iron pipe. I've got no UV worries.
I think just a box (maybe galvanized steel?) would enough to protect your exposed PEX.
UV is the only drawback I know of with PEX. Wish I had seen your PEX crimping tips 2 years ago, would have used a lot less profanity. Jim Y
Nice job always great information. Thanks 😊🙏
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
I'm so proud of you. I feel like a mama!!
Thanks! And thank you for watching.
I used two frost proof spigots that way it can be easily disconnected and drained, can be multi purposes for other things besides the shower as well, and doesn’t look like such a hack job visually from outside the house
You are amazing. Love your videos. thank you
Glad you like them!
Cool project! curious how it will be after awhile with all the water just draining on a grassy area? might be a mud pit after awhile...
Hey April - have you done any videos on making a gravel pad of any variety, yet?
I'd love to see how you approach it.
Really want UV protection for the PEX, and where I live it seems better to have thick insulation for freeze protection, perhaps heat tape (does that work for PEX? Maybe on an outer galvanized protector?).
I'd go deeper with the trench and put cheap concrete paver blocks and surveyor's tape over the pipes. First person doing e.g. landscaping who chunks their shovel into the ground...
There are more than 2 types of crimping with pex. Check out uponor or wirsbo, Aquapex ect. The actual "crimp" ring is made from the same material as the pipe and gets stretched open before install
You can add an outdoor deep sink for gardening.
You’re a boss!
The first time when you said , “should it ever freeze here in Texas” made me laugh so hard. I think last February just seems like a bad nightmare for all of us now. Couldn’t have been real.
Great tip on Solidworks. I was not aware of this and will definitely pull the trigger on it.
Last Feb was certainly a nightmare! It was a once in a lifetime freeze to be sure. Thanks for watching.
What was the white paste you used to seal the pipe threads? It looks much easier than using Teflon tape.
Your information is beautiful and helpful I hope to be health and safety
Thinking of doing this to rinse off from my pool. But just going to hook it up to a propane on demand tank in a box on a pole. Or just attach it to the outside wall of shower.
Have you considered a solar thermal collector for hot water?
you or my inspiration
2:15 - should it ever freeze in Texas.... [February Intensifies] LOL
April, Thank you so much for this video. Like many of your videos, I am using this video as a resource for running hot water to an outdoor sink and I would appreciate your help in clarifying the exact type of shut-off valve you used for the hot water line at 5:54 sec mark of the video. Would you mind adding the link to your description in response to this comment?
thanks
Great project - I am curious if you've run into any issues since the build? Would you do anything differently if you did this again? Is it to code/ legal plumbing to "T" into the plumbing under the sink? thanks!
This is very cool would be a great idea if you had a pool or something
Love your video. What shower valve did you use?
Are sharkbite style connectors permitted by Texas code? I do the odd diy plumbing in my house, and let me tell you - I'm not going back to sweating / soldering copper. For the extra cost of the fittings, the hassle of maintaining my pipe soldering skills so the joints don't leak is worth it!
Any more Episodes going to happen in Assembly Required? Great to see you excel!!
Thats better than my regular shower.
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@AprilWilkerson nothing better than an outdoor shower with hot water. Did mine a few months back. Enjoy. Hope that TV show comes back. Lot of fun to watch.
What was that white goop you put on the shower head pipe before screwing on the shower head (8:07)? Some liquid Teflon tape?
Great video but what about the Uponor system for pex?
I was thinking about that, but couldn't remember the name!!! I remember Handeeman using that system on his new house
SWEET.
Did you or could you tell us what shower head, shower handle, and shower equipment you used. We have been buying the outside shower whole silver unit and they are cheap and break easy,
@2:20 "should it ever freeze in Texas".... Now that's funny! Great video, really like your content... just wish I had sponsors for my home projects (other than my bank account) :-P
muy vueno
Can you do this same setup but off grid style with no access to house water.
April, Have you checked to make sure the calking does not degrade the pex? plastics and some chemicals don't play wall together!
Might want to consider adding a backflow preventer on the cold water valve to prevent tainted water from getting into you houses drinking water. Just a thought. Nice video .. thanks for sharing a lot of great idea's.
Yes, A backflow preventer is required by code where I live.
April as a carpenter head thanks for giving me this plumbing head project a great outdoors shower ; I'd add two things a privacy gate & a PVC shed roof. Sweet shower I may use this one for my shower, out on the range, & it's a great idea outside a sauna;👍. Best of blessings to you and all your friends 😘
David
So as a plumber this is very good but I noticed you backed off the Teflon when you were adjusting the shower head now there's a chance that can leak since you turned it anticlockwise and you should of ran copper on the outside till you went underground then go to pex or are you going to be covering the pipes up the wall up because pex doesn't go well in uv
Counter clockwise??
I see I'm not alone in scorching the paneling when sweating an under-sink fitting. Even the professionals do it from time to time. ;)
Very nice! As far as I know red/white/red pex is all the same (except color).
Hi April, what design software are you using?
Beautiful! The only thing I would have done is put another wall on the outside right that comes back to the center of the front pad in order to add a little more privacy. My girls would require that. ;)
I'm not aware of pex that is UV stable. you're allowed 90 days usually. you will def want to cover it up so it doesnt break down.
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We got down to 5 degrees this year and for 4 days in N Louisiana. I got lucky that none of mine busted. It's all pex
There you go u the woman I love it I will like to do one like that Excellent nice job ⚒🛠😎🍻
I would love a set of your plans
Below description of Video, I leave a Link to the Plans. Click on Show More and scroll down. Thanks for watching.
Ordered it thank u
Are you not concerned about UV exposure to the PEX?
Yeh, it will break for sure. I had some exposed pex, and after about a year, stepping on it caused it to give me an unscheduled shower.
So I hate to bother, but you’re my favorite diyer and I was wondering if you could make a video on sink and bath plumbing basics?? You’re one of the main CZcamsrs I watch to train myself at my maintenance manager job hana
nice
You are mad cool, very interesting, and I love your videos, especially your lifestyle that offers you so much happiness and freedom, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Thank you so much! I love my job and my life! Thanks for watching. :)
I love this, but what if it's reall off-grid and all you have is a hose to run to a tankless water heater, but you also want cold water?
I'm in Texas, too.....we had some -2 degrees F this past winter.