Great content. Question: people seem to agree that the flange needs to be installed to the height of the finished floor. How does one accomplish this on a new build when the plumbing goes in prior to the flooring?
I never understood why people install a cleanout under the toilet. If that line is completely blocked I am not opening that cleanout to let all that sewage pour out inside of my house. Just go through the toilet. Useless
Dylan, can you help plan out the upgrade of an historic house? I have unfinished areas and areas to be updated like the empty kitchen, and need more bathrooms, a real full bathroom, kitchen drains, laundry maybe on the second floor, well everything. Do you make house calls? I could use some help in the planning parts. I downloaded your papers many years ago and use the pictures often. I was planning on putting a laundry on the back porch once I finish cutting out the gigantic oil burning sheet metal vents because the HVAC guys won’t use them so I have no heat, or AC but Ned bathrooms and laundry. So then I thought why not put it upstairs…. Ugh help please.
I washed out my vent stacks on the roof using a garden hose. Seems to have fixed the problem of the toilet P-trap being drained when the washer would drain into the main sewer pipe and then stink up the bathroom with sewer gas.
Former Montana state plumbing inspector, it would be nice to see more videos like this. So many homeowners wanting to do their own work get it wrong and wind up spending three to four times the cost. And when in doubt, call your local inspector. They are more than happy to come out and look and it WON'T COST A DIME! Better to be safe than have a real mess in the end.
Bro--FWIW--I always use a big piece of white bread (no rust please!) to 'plug up' lines that have residual water in them before I solder. Like the line to your final coupling getting soldered. When done just turn on the water and the bread will liquify and disappear out the faucet when turned on.
In Australia if homeowners performed their own plumbing work especially on sewer drainage systems, hot or cold water supply or gas fitting works they would be subject to prosecution by law. The only advice a Plumbing Inspection would give a homeowner here is to use a licensed Plumber for all of the above work and to ensure the Plumber provides a Certificate of Compliance upon completion of the work.
I'm dealing with a Arrowhead hydrant with a leaky stem that is threaded on the inside as well as the outside. There is a 90 degree elbow attached to it with threads on the hydrant side and a soldered coupling to a copper pipe on the other end. Ideally I just need to replace the stem but there are no stem kits for the length hydrant so I need to purchase the whole thing. Theoretically I should be able to unscrew the old hydrant but it's tricky as I don't want to apply force to the elbow. Alternately I could just strip the stem out of the new hydrant and leave the existing body in place. I am still deciding what the best approach is.
