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Always Check Your Plumbing Parts Before Leaving the Store!

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This instructional video emphasizes the crucial practice of thoroughly inspecting newly purchased plumbing components, specifically P-traps, for manufacturing defects, missing parts, or foreign objects before installation. By performing these preventative checks, individuals can significantly reduce the risk of future plumbing failures, such as clogs and leaks, thereby avoiding the need for reactive measures like pipe leak repairs with specialized tools like repair clamps.

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hey folks that fixit guy here and i want to talk to you today about unexpected prizes in your plumbing all right things that can really cause an issue or just make you scratch your head so come along let's get to fixing these were two of the traps that i bought for this video that i have coming out on saturday all right you remember you talking about the snappy trap already right it came with the extra abs it came with the extra freaking other fitting well it was an open package right but it was the only one they had i thought maybe they did their diligence they sealed it back up pretty nice so i said oh well you know i'll try it i'll hook it up and i'll see and it turned out like just wonky came with some extra stuff right not something i would buy anyway but you want to check this stuff if it's an open package like open it up at the store make sure the stuff's in there because if it's not it's gonna suck when you get home with this one i'd never buy this either this corrugated grab man all it is is you're asking for an issue with this stuff plus it's against code nobody's gonna allow you to have this stuff in home inspector's gonna make you pull it out before you sell your house don't even do it but this didn't come in a package what it came with was a potential headache so it looks go fine and dandy here until you get right around in there okay so that's the surprise i found when i got home was that there actually is a piece of cpvc stuck down in here a cpvc fitting that's actually stuck pretty well but yeah just a male adapter that got stuck in there and i mean i guess i got a free fitting out of the deal but that potentially could have caused a great thing right it could have caused you a big problem because had you not noticed that that was in there and you just went ahead and put this together you'd have a big problem real quick because your train line your water from your kitchen sink or something is not going to want to go through that hole food is going to hate that real fast and it's gonna boom build up and you're gonna have a problem and then if you go to try to get that out of there and you push it down further it gets stuck man you're calling a plumber all right so that's just something i wanted to show you guys you definitely want to check out the material that you bought yeah see man that's just hard dude just something crazy you never know what you're gonna get i hope this helps all right so when you find something like this well you can look at it and say oh i got a free fitting or you could look at it and say man i avoided a potential disaster finding that you guys just check out the stuff that you get i mean i asked that because there's been a lot of times where things are in the packages that are not supposed to be there or they actually have the complete wrong thing in there i have totally got a used toilet from home depot in a brand new box all right somebody just repackaged it ridiculous i really hope you guys enjoyed the video please subscribe to the channel click the like button we're just trying to help people out and spice things up a little bit i hope we're doing that thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon

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