Basic Plumbing

Transcript Hi folks, I’n John Wood with Hub Plumbing Mechanical of New York City. We’re located in Manhattan’s historic West Village. I’ve been a licensed master plumber for over 20 years and I’m here to share a few tips with you about how we’re going to do some plumbing repairs you might find in your …

Transcript I’m here to talk now about how to become a New York City Master Plumber. Becoming a Master Plumber really varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It can vary across the country. I personally know that New York City and California have the most restrictive policies for becoming a Master Plumber. New York City because …

Transcript At the risk of having a contract taken out on my life by the home centers, I’m going to give you a few tips on buying new plumbing fixtures when you’re doing your bathroom over or replacing a faucet or replacing a shower valve. A lot of people have a terrible mindset of to …

Transcript OK, folks. I’m going to go over, for a few minutes, what some of the most common plumbing tools are. On my left here, I have channel locks. Also, in other parts of the country, referred to as pumps, for some reason. I think it was because they had used them on water pumps, …

Transcript We’re gonna talk about why basement toilets seem to smell bad, worse than other toilets in the home. Okay? There’s only one real reason. That’s because the basement may have suffered a clog in the past. Now when a clog happens, the water is going to back up out of the sewer into the …

Transcript There are a few things that every homeowner should always know, no matter what. One of them being, where the shutoff valve is for the water. I can’t tell you how many times in my career, I’ve gone out to an emergency call in the small hours of the morning, and there’s water, absolutely, …

Transcript I also want to talk about three no-no’s in the plumbing world, okay? DIY is fine. Repairing your own home is fine. Being a cowboy is not, and it’s for a very good reason. Everybody wants to save a buck, including myself. I’m actually intimidated by electricity, so I won’t work beyond replacing a …

Transcript Okay, so today I’m going to try to talk a little bit about how a toilet tank works. A lot of people are completely mystified as to the very simple machinations of the toilet tank. You can save yourself a lot of money trying to tackle some of these very simple repairs yourself, with …

Transcript Unfortunately like death and taxes, clogs are pretty much inevitable. Clogs occur for a number of reasons, long hair, greases and lipids in the line and then most commonly of the burbs is roots. Roots can be a real bug bear for the average homeowner and they can be extremely expensive to correct. So …

Transcript Okay. So I’m going to talk for a few minutes about how to fix some of the most common plumbing leaks that you might see in your home or business. Okay. But first, before I go into that I should talk about the types of joints that you have. When we say “joints” in …

Transcript Okay, folks. So, today, I’m going to show you how to fix a kitchen sink drain. This is a very common repair, because they rot out quickly. The material that you most commonly see under a kitchen sink is this brass, here. This is 17-gauge brass, which is actually referring to the wall thickness …

Transcript Okay. Let’s talk about fixing water lines. Depending on what region of the country you’re in, you may see PEX tubing, which is a type of plastic or something, but in the five boroughs of New York City it is exclusively copper. If it’s not, you’re not legal. So this is what we call …