My basement may be famous

[Josh]

Well they shot some footage of my professional installation in my basement. I doubt they'll use it but it was a good example of cramped quarters. I know it aint perfect but it was my first installation. The first image looks like the silcock pitches down as it goes out toward the wall. Its actually very level. I didn't hack it in.. I promise.


Josh

[ToUtahNow]

Well they shot some footage of my professional installation in my basement. I doubt they'll use it but it was a good example of cramped quarters. I know it aint perfect but it was my first installation. The first image looks like the silcock pitches down as it goes out toward the wall. Its actually very level. I didn't hack it in.. I promise.


Josh

Wow it looks like we may need to bring some tools when we come to repipe your laundry area.

Mark :D

[drtyhands]

Wow it looks like we may need to bring some tools when we come to repipe your laundry area.

Mark :D
Are you refering to a level for the cold on the W/M?

Just teasing Josh:p

[drtyhands]

Wow,look at the fingernails.

I gotta get a manicure:)

[PLUMBER RICK]

i know for a fact that i was the one that told you to use propress on that frost proof hose bibb.

just in case you end up giving away the propress tool. i was first:D ben:speechless:

rick.

[MrsSeatDown]

Forget about the nails. . . the whole hand is clean:eek:

Those aren't working man's hands:D

[gear junkie]

The first image looks like the silcock pitches down as it goes out toward the wall. Its actually very level.

Josh
If this is a frost proof hose bibb you want it to angle downward as it exits the wall so it can drain.

[Wild Weasel]

Are those pipe bits the ones that come pre-soldered? I tried those and they didn't work out so well for me. :( I think I had to move one or something once they were heated so the solder just pooled up in the groove and then I couldn't fit them back together again.

Good to put together, heat, and be done with. Not so good if you ever need to take them apart and reuse them.

Of course... I don't expect a plumber would ever reuse such a thing. Probably have piles of them in the van...

Now I'm rambling. What's a propress? :D

[PLUMBER RICK]

Now I'm rambling. What's a propress? :D


propress is to copper, as the k-60 is to snaking:speechless:

propress is a copper crimping system that uses specialized copper fittings with o-rings and hydraulically crimps them onto copper tubing.

all within 5-7 seconds even with water dripping;)

look at the new 330-b crimper on the opening page.

rick.

[smorris]

Good thing you didn't have to resort to using a Tasmanian Salmon in there, Josh. :D

[Wild Weasel]

Ah! So those fittings with the bulge in them are not the ones that come filled with solder? Good stuff! Those seemed like a good idea until I tried them. :D

If they've got an o-ring in them though... won't that degrade and leak over time? I mean... when you take old o-rings out of faucets after a few years, the rubber is very much not very rubbery anymore...

[DuckButter]

Ah! So those fittings with the bulge in them are not the ones that come filled with solder? Good stuff! Those seemed like a good idea until I tried them. :D

If they've got an o-ring in them though... won't that degrade and leak over time? I mean... when you take old o-rings out of faucets after a few years, the rubber is very much not very rubbery anymore...

I'd made the very same point months ago, the argument being that the rubber in the Propress is "elastomeric"...supposedly different than what we see in standard fixtures.
I priced the tools, $2200 for the smaller diameter tool...$3500 for the larger.
I'd just as soon wait and see if they hold up, and if the price comes down.

[Wild Weasel]

Pricy, but I can certainly see how they could pay for themselves quickly if you can reliably slap all those connections together in a couple minutes rather than having to sweat each of the joints!

I guess the key is the reliability...

Don't building codes say that all connections that will be sealed behind walls have to be sweated? To these meet some sort of exemption?

Or has this all been discussed elsewhere such that I should just stop asking questions here in a thread about Josh's basement? :D