Don’t Crumble Your Water Pipe! #plumbing #plumber #diy

So, now with many of these flow type valves, I'm going to show you an easy way to get these off. Now, manufacturers going to tell you to grab this and just pull and twist it off going counterclockwise. You don't know how your pipe is secured and do you know what kind of pipe it is? Do not do that. You can really jack up your plumbing and then you have a bigger issue. What you want to do is grab a little tubing cutter. This is a Rigid 118. It goes from 1/4 in to 1 1/8 in. I also happen to have this ratcheting attachment for it. We're going to cut right up here at the front by this O-ring. So, you're going to want to take the escutcheon off, slide this on up in here. You hear it start cracking? Off. We'll then take this piece right here, slide it back. You can remove the O-ring. You want to just grab a little pair of snips. Boom.