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Brace and Finalize Valve Installation

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Shower Valve Replacement Made Easy (Delta 1700 Install Step-by-Step)

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What happens here

Measure and cut a 2x4 piece of wood to create a brace that will firmly secure the valve body in place within the wall cavity. Use a circular saw to make the necessary cuts, ensuring the brace fits snugly. Counter-sink holes in the brace and screw it into the studs to prevent any movement of the valve. Once the valve is braced, you can press the remaining unpressed connection using the Ridgid RP 115 tool.

Goal: Secure the shower valve body in the wall and complete pipe connections.

Tools and materials

  • 2x4 Wood — Creating a brace for the shower valve
  • Circular Saw Ryobi — Cutting the 2x4 brace
  • Measuring Tape Milwaukee — Measuring the dimensions for the brace
  • Milwaukee Impact Driver Milwaukee — Screwing the brace into the studs and counter-sinking screw heads
  • Ridgid RP 115 Press Tool Ridgid — Crimping the final pipe connection
  • Wood Screws — Securing the 2x4 brace

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Light. Easy. Right in there. Done. And so now our PEX is crimped. We only have one more fitting. And then we're able to turn the water back on. But before we do that, I want to cut a 2 by 4 to brace this valve in place. I'm going to mark 12 in. I'm going to go end to end with 245s. And we're going to see what happens with that. We're bumping a 45 here at the edge of this. Perfect. So that should just lay down. Boom. Boom. Right like that. We'll see. Too short. Right principle. Wrong length. Took us a minute to get through that knot. But we're good. Feel like that's going to do what we wanted it to do. Still be able to get our ProPress jaws on that. We'll go ahead. We're going to countersink these. That ain't going nowhere. You can see that that is dead center down from where that is. This is angled the right way. Everything. We just need to put a couple screws in place here and we're good to go. Solid. Ain't going nowhere. Now that's

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