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Easy repair for a loose shower head!

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This video demonstrates how to fix a loose shower head using epoxy putty. The shower arm is loose where it connects to the pipe in the wall. After gathering the necessary materials (epoxy putty and gloves), the creator mixes the two-part epoxy putty until it turns white. They then apply the putty around the base of the shower arm where it enters the wall, packing it in to fill any gaps. Finally, they let the putty dry completely and test the shower head to confirm it's no longer loose.

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[Music] hey folks that fix-it guy here today we're gonna be fixing the shower back here behind me the shower arm itself that connects to the showerhead is a little bit wobbly from side to side so we're gonna go ahead and we're actually going to put some stuff in there I'll show you what I'm using to kind of just make that sturdy and then we'll come back in a little while and check it out here's the showerhead that we're looking at if you ever have this kind of issue this is what you'll be looking at you just if you go like this you can see that we get a little side-to-side it's not really that much everything else is sitting pretty good there's no movement there there's a little movement there we're gonna end up call cannot but this right here is my main focus at the moment so we're gonna pop this off and you see there's a little cavity in there it's not a lot of play but it's a little bit so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna put we're gonna fill that cavity up so for this job you're just gonna fuse it I just use a pair of rubber gloves and some of this jb weld water weld it's just an epoxy putty so just kind of chunk of this off we're gonna stick it right around that pipe and fill up that little crevice up there and this is gonna hook us right up I love jobs where it really is just one little thing to to give a good quality fix as you can see a pair of gloves and that a little epoxy putty good to roll okay so just get our gloves on pump this out well part of the top that came off of there that's alright get that off of there a little crusty off the outer edge so we're just going to take a piece of this it's not going to be too much maybe about if you split it into thirds maybe just about a third and just break it off and then I'll just take this and wrap it pack it back up stick it back in our case save it for another time so just get this mixed up okay so it all pretty much looks like it's one now this point it's all kind of turned into a white putty as you can see so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna make it before it really starts sticking the stuff we're just gonna kind of shape it to where it'll go right around the hole and then take off one of my gloves so I can hold the camera and we're gonna get right up in here like so now we're just gonna feed that right around and just put it right in the hole okay come around on the other side I'm just trying to get it jammed in there as best we can oh that's not too shaky I'm trying to just hold the best I can okay okay so we'll come back and check this in just a few minutes we're going to let it dry alright so we've came back to this it is everything is dry now and you can't move that early at all hey it's uh it's in there pretty good so I mean I just packed this all around this is part of the touch can't move it at all so we just go ahead and just slide that cover back on over that and it's good to roll well we got that shower arm all puttied up it's good to go there should be no more complaint about the movement on that thing we packed that epoxy putty in there and once that hardened that whole thing ain't going nowhere covers back up easy not even see it don't even notice I hope this video helps somebody and you know gives you some ideas that's not the only thing that putty can be used for I use it from time to time not all the time but it works most of the time alright please subscribe to our channel click the like button greatly appreciate everything you do and remember you can fix anything if I can do it you can do it thank you

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