5 Min Fix To Cover Ugly PEX Water Lines
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2024
- Emily's Channel (You Can DIY): / @youcandiyhome
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Emily Lopez from the CZcams channel You Can DIY will walk us through a quick update that can help to hide your exposed PEX stub-outs. This is a quick fix and will also provide a bit more support than simply the PEX coming out of the wall or floor.
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Awesome job Emily. Great collaboration Scott.
That’s a great idea. I think I could even use that for the ugly copper pipe. Thanks for sharing
I used thin shiny silver furnace tape and my floor flange is split so you can get around the pes then clicks together. Turned out very nice. Yours looks great if you have not turned on the water as of yet.
Me too!
💪🏻💪🏻Great Job, Emily 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Nice job, Scott, always collaborating and helping other youtubers 🥰🥰
Thanks!!
My favorite option is the Dahl shutoff valve with bell escutcheon. Looks great and hides the pex.
Looks like the sharkbite could release if pushed down on that tube unless the sharkbite cover is added
That was my first thought when I saw this. If someone pulled up on that chrome cover piece, it could potentially (not necessarily, I can’t really tell from the video) act as a sharkbite removal tool
Nice! I need that!
Such a neat option!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the support 👍
Awesome!
Thanks!
A nice option to have!
I live in the South and my pipes cover in through the wall ... on the first floor.
My second level has them stubbed through the floor.
I have never seen a plumbing pipe come out of the floor like that I live in the south. Is this a regional thing?
Not uncommon for homes with basements or crawlspaces in our area (Illinois).
Lazy plumbers do that.
@@granjitsingh It seems nice if an unfinished but accessible area is below, such as an unfinished basement. Then if the pipe ever needs to be accessed, it is easy and no extra drywall repair is needed.
I prefer to stub them out of the wall. When this house was roughed in/re-plumbed (old stone house) we had to get creative with the space. There was a lot of duct work under the floor below the wall in the crawl space, so it wouldn't have made financial sense to make the changes to get in the wall in this case. In the other bathroom, the plumber did this and I tore it out and stubbed a copper pipe out of the wall before we closed up the walls :)
@@EverydayHomeRepairs also mobile homes, pretty much all my plumbing comes through the floor.
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nice, but stupid question, when you done the remodelling why not just put pipes into the wall behind the toilet?
If you live in a cold climate, you can't have pipes in an exterior wall.
@@jayadinash9102 fair, but i meant just inside the wall under inner skin, surelly that wouldn't be a problem?
You have to build a full insulated false wall if you have to put a pipe in an exterior wall (in my city regs) so it takes up another 4 inches of depth but honestly it should be avoided at all costs - we sometimes get into the negative 30 degrees so you shouldn’t risk it. In this case, there were actually a bunch of ducts on the way (this wasn’t an exterior wall :) )
all my cold water lines are blue but that small segment to the toilet is white of course and I put it right behind so you don’t see it
Real plumbers stub out with white pex piping
Unfortunately I see this blue just sticking out of walls all over town in high end homes. I'm a real estate agent and I can't believe how often I see this.
Better yet, stub out copper, it looks better :)
Real plumbers don’t put water lines in an outside wall. And they still use copper that can be tinned or sleeved with a chrome cover tube.
I use brass nipples.
This is a DIY. "Real plumbers" would have went inside the wall. I dont like you now for this
Pex Copper stub out looks a lot easier.
I would agree its best to switch it before stub out if you have the opportunity. But, if you are left like this with a finished space, this is a nice option :)
@@YouCanDIYHomeI agree with that. I just love the way copper looks. Behind toilets.
My house has white pex for this
Whatever you do, don't follow how she installed that sharkbite. She has no idea if she hit the proper insertion depth of the pex into the fitting without measuring. This is why plumbers see so many failed sharkbites in the field.
I had so much extra pipe, I was able to slide it in the max depth and then push the rest of the pipe into the crawl space. If you didn’t have extra pipe, you’d need to measure more carefully.
@@YouCanDIYHome I've installed a lot of sharkbites, and more times than not, a fitting can feel like it has inserted full depth when it has not. The newest generation of fittings are better in this regard, but I still ALWAYS measure. Of all the trades plumbing has the greatest liability by a long shot due to the great damage that can occur in a relatively short amount of time. A disclaimer in this video about sharkbite installation should (be) have been applied.
With some practice, you can feel it, and see it without measuring, so it shouldn’t be an issue for an experienced person.
But since pretty much all sharkbite failures have this cause, it is always a good idea to recommend it.
Yes…cover that ugly blue PEX tubing 🛠️🛠️
Yesssss!!
Or spray paint it.
Would look better than blue!
I plumb the supply line in the wall into an Ox Box.............way, way easier.
In this case we had ductwork in the way, didn’t make fiscal sense to move it
So the pipes then freeze in the wall?
@awboat I don’t think people that haven’t lived in freezing climates understand the struggle. I had a client tell me once that their old house had all the pipes in the attic! It’s a whole different world based on climate for construction :)
"Look how much sharper" you forgot to put the chrome trim ring on so you can't see the tan release collar
She didn't say what kind of glue she used. When you just say "glue", you've said a lot, there are so many kinds.
UPC shouldn’t allow pex to be used as stub outs.
Why not? Copper dont look any better
@@srobeck77 when installed correctly you don’t see any copper and the pipe and valve are secure.
I just use a dog ear, then connect a real pipe.
Wow, that is a very necessary trim piece. PEX poking through walls and floors is visually unacceptable.
If the pipe is not terminated why not crimp on a female adapter and screw the chrome pipe on
I replaced it in the other bathroom with a crimp on pex stub out. But, I’ve seen this in so many houses, I left this so I could show others who had run into the problem.
cause threaded leak too much. no ty
Scott, I've loved your channel for years. Part of the reason why I appreciated your channel is that you seem like a man who is doing the natural thing and taking care of his castle. It's refreshing to see a man being masculine, especially in this crazy age we live in.
However, it seems that you're now hosting videos from a female DIYer. In case you didn't know, we have an enormous problem nowadays involving females veering away from femininity and behaving in masculine ways. It's actually disturbing to people who appreciate natural masculinity and femininity. I recommend preferring not to host videos of masculine females trying to make a name for themselves by taking on masculine personas. It wasn't women who started the DIY phenomenon, it was men. When women try to step into that sphere of activity and try to get into the spotlight alongside men, they are not behaving in feminine ways, they are behaving in masculine ways.
In case you or anyone reading this has forgotten what it means to be a feminine women, search for videos on "how to be feminine" or "how to be ladylike" and if you want to see a very feminine women, search for videos on "biblical womanhood".
When you watch those videos, you will not see women holding power tools or pouring concrete. Chances are you will not see women wearing jeans and t shirts. If you need more help understanding what a feminine woman looks like, watch old movies and tv shows. Watch things that came out further and further away from the 1960s and youll see that all women wore dresses and blouses and looked and behaved in femininine ways. Many women today do not behave that way and masculine men who are in tune with nature find that to be disgusting.
It's undeniable that your typical woman is uninterested in the nuts and bolts side of life. There's a reason why it was men who started making videos of home repairs, and why, to this day, the majority of videos are mostly made by men. When women decide to take on masculine personas and try to make a name for themselves by getting into the spotlight of the DIY video scene, that's not a sign that the woman is following in the footsteps of feminine women, it's a sign that she is following in the footsteps of masculine men. We don't encourage women to do that, we advise them not to do that. Sadly, some women can be the only girl in a family of boys or be raised by a single father who doesn't know what it means to be a woman. This can disorient a female. When we see a disoriented female, we don't help lead her in the wrong direction. We set her in the right direction. This woman here on this video is headed in the wrong direction. She is taking on a masculine persona and honestly I can't watch that. It seems that you have featured her multiple times and if this becomes a regular thing, I won't be able to bear it. I love feminine women and I hate to see what's happening to women nowadays.
Nowadays, the world will tell you that you are doing a good thing by helping women do whatever pops into their minds, but you need to remember that I'm not the only person out there who appreciates natural masculinity and femininity. More people than you think are disturbed when they see tomboyish, masculine women. Normally, I steer entirely clear of videos of women who try to make a name for themselves by taking on masculine personas and getting into masculine activities, and I don't want the same thing to happen to this channel. It's one thing if a woman is on her own and has to fix things around her house in the privacy of her own home; it's another when tomboyish women try to take center stage, embrace the masculine persona and brazenly puts it on display for all to see. Whether it's done in ignorance or in opposition to femininity, it's a complete displeasure and I can't watch that. Just as it's disturbing to see women with beards, when you become attuned to what femininity looks like, it becomes disturbing to see women take on masculine personas and try to join men in what has historically been a masculine activity.
I highly recommend that everyone do everything they can to find out how women used to behave. That will turn your understanding women to something closer what is natural. Watch an old cowboy movie if you have to and observe the wives of the decent folk. Observe the activities they engage in because that's what women are inclined to do.