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Install Shower Mixing Valve and Plumbing

10:15
30:50
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Building a $20,000 Shower in an Old House

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench
  • Drill
  • PEX Fittings
  • PEX Pipes
  • Pipe Crimper
  • Screws
  • Shower Mixing Valve (Faucet)
  • Teflon Tape (gray)

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tomorrow or something like that but uh in the meantime one of the last things we need to waterproof here is we need to install our drain right here get my pipe below slap it in there thin it around put it in and then put the ctie band ring around it this puppy will be done and I'll be ready for a water leak test look what finally showed up it's not supposed to be here for another I think day uh and it finally showed up last night so excited cuz I didn't want to come in and work on the weekend so I got my shower system look at this beautiful brass shower head rainfall uh Amazon 200 bucks and it actually matches all the hardware one of the hardest thing with brass is it's all a different shade of brass so it all worked out really well uh we can actually start doing the plumbing right now so take a break from the waterproofing do the plumbing and then finish off the waterproofing it's so backwards it's crazy it's a circus mixing valves here I'm always screwing up of how far I need to put it you just got to make sure it's far enough that the plate can cover it perfectly and the harder part is actually your drop ears that go on top and um it's really just amount how they can screw in so uh but other than that with these water mixing valves they don't come with the water connector so you have to get your own 1/ in PEX connector so we have our cold and hot coming in we have our handheld rinser off and then we have our top shower head so uh put the Teflon tape on there which the one that I go with is always gray it's a lot thicker just get I just hate Teflon the regular Teflon sucks gray is so much better less rotations but far stronger [Music] w mixing valve water regulator shoots up here sprays down here want to rinse off grab this I think it's all here folks I think all the hard part is done let's cover this up waterproof the rest of it and then we'll start laying the base floor tile

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