Tub/Shower Valve Replacement Behind The Bathroom Wall

Hey folks that fix it guy here. Starting this project right we're gonna cut three supports. We're gonna put a drop ear up here, a drop ear down here, and then we'll tie in the water lines. It's always a bummer whenever you have electrical right here. I'm not moving it. It's a bummer because I was gonna build the whole thing and then just push it in place and screw it down. But I can't do that with this right here. So that's why we're putting the drop ear down there. Make sure that the side that says up is going up. That looks good. Now you don't need to get this bad with it. We're gonna measure bottom of the valve. We're gonna put this right here in the center of the hole. Grab a stick of type L copper. So I've got a street 90 up here going into a wing del sideways and that is going to work for this. That's how much it's off. Yeah, it should be fine. Make sure we ring every piece, clean every piece. Let's get this valve right here. Let's get it screwed down at the place. Okay, all right. Well, we got a moment of truth here. Got it all built up and now we're going to get it put in place. All right, it's going. That was tricky, Ricky. Think the whole thing needs to come up a little bit. Okay, perfect. So that's in. Okay, so this is in. Yeah, once that's all screwed down and adjusted, this is all going to work out great and looks like we're going to be able to get in here. Okay, here we go. That sucks. That's the one bomber. I didn't think about cutting those off. So when I measured for the hot and the cold water lines, I measured to the old copper, but that was right where my board for the tub spout was going to be. Where I had actually had my pipes coming down was wrong and it was right by the board. So what I did was I went ahead and I actually soldered this up and gave me space. That way I could put repair couplings right here in an open space. All right, third one. The third. Yeah, the third moment of truth here. Spin around like that. Shuffle, shuffle like that. It goes in a lot easier with weird twists. Okay, this is very exciting. This pipe will move up, this pipe will move up, get all that hooked up in place. So under those last two joints in there, put all these boards in place and we're good to rock and roll. Okay, so that's how far we're going to go up right there with these repair couplings. Let's give it a little more flux just to be honest. My phone ran out of storage there. I took some channel locks, moved these up to the line. Now we can burn. Look at that. You've got to love these things. There's not even a burn mark on that wall. It's kind of crazy. Grab the old inspection mirror. Looks good. Looks good. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's the last one and I'm a little paranoid. Now, okay. That looks good. Okay, we got some water flowing. Now we'll stop. We ran a little bit of water. We got any debris out of here that we need. We're going to put a little silicone grease on our O-rings and then we're going to pop this in there. So this thing actually has a hot and a cold. Right, so hot side. That clicks right in place or you're able to take that ring that secures this in place. Just get that tight. Just a little snug. Nothing crazy. You want to make sure you put this O-ring on. It's what helps make this ring right here slide on. And then it's just going to slide on right like this. There's this little ring that goes in and it just gives you a little space between the end of this discussion right here and this part of the valve. Grab the handle. That is the off position and it just put this little set screw in there. Comes with an Allen wrench. Fewer out of the tough line. A little bit of make a lock. Take your channel locks. Get it to where it is straight. Shower head. So then use a crest wrench to get this tightened. And now we're going to go with a six inch brass nipple. Get some tough line on here. So we're going to go with some mega lock as well. When inside the wall, I always go with both. Get some tough line put on here. Okay, and so then before we put the tub spout on, let's go ahead and put some calc, some silicone, some plumber's putty, something around this. There's a little hole in the bottom that you'd be able to see a leak if it came out. When we call, we're not going to call that either. And if this gets to be too much, well, grab a little strap wrench, right? Put a cap on there. You can press your test net. Come around this backside and look at it. There ain't nothing leaking right there. It was good. So we got the shower running. There ain't nothing going on right there. We're going to rock and roll, man. There is. It's good. One leak right there on a shower head. We'll try to go no tough on tape, like some of the other peeps say. We'll see how that rolls with this. I still don't see it working that well. Honestly, I might end up using the old one. Yeah, that's with the outlet teflon. Come on, guys. I'm trying to find that shower head still leaking. So I guess what we're going to back to this one. Look at that. Just stuff in here. So check it out. I installed the old shower head because it was not leaking. There's no teflon on there. And it totally is not leaking now. We couldn't even use the shower head that it came with. It's got a bummer. Okay, and then with last thing, we're just going to call. Siliconize clear. What are you going to tell it's there once it's done? Grab yourself a contractor's sponge. The siliconized acrylic is all water cleanup. And it just makes for good smooth edges. And there we go. All right, folks. So there we go. A little bit of a bear, but it got done. Including trying to put the new shower head on five times and it kept leaking. That's insane. All right. I just put the old one back on. It actually worked out pretty well. So the location where this valve is because of that kick out and having to put the sliding bathroom door back on a little bit of a troublesome area. And I just wanted to make sure all those fittings were soldered back there. That way, I know there's not going to be any issue for a long time. I really hope you folks are enjoying the content. Please subscribe. Serious with somebody that you think might like the content. Thank you very much. And we'll see you again real soon.