How To Install a ZURN Pressure Reducing Valve (P.R.V.) using pex and propress fittings

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WrenchWorksPlumbing

2 жыл бұрын

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@PlasticAddict 2 жыл бұрын

Nice upload I'll be seeing whats next to come.

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

Soon

@vipkarl 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@TheTastyMorsel Жыл бұрын

Good grief that was a lot of water. How come you didn't open some faucets in the house to drain the lines?

@WrenchWorksPlumbing Жыл бұрын

I did. But it’s a three-story house, so you always have residual water when you cut open the main water source.

@surudog4929 2 жыл бұрын

Any reason why you just didn’t solder it? You did mention a gas line, but that water line is under pressure and I will feel secure only if my handyman soldered it.

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

I can definitely solder one… This particular customer wants to re-pipe the house, so he wanted it all in PEX, so I did it this way to have a good starting point when I return to do the larger project.

@docAwfulMD 2 жыл бұрын

whyd you transfer to pex if you already had the male adaptor? it looked like it was alright

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

This particular customer has terrible copper pipe quality, so he wanted us to re-pipe in pex a couple weeks after this video. So I went ahead and made that transfer fitting.

@luvmybeemer Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I’m going to have to replace an old Watts PRV which is installed into an all PEX system. How is this done and made easier to replace the next time?

@WrenchWorksPlumbing Жыл бұрын

Pex is the easiest way. First, see if your PRV has unions and you can more than likely buy the same model and do a quick swap out. If not…. Then buy a pex version of a PRV and splice it into the water main

@luvmybeemer Жыл бұрын

@@WrenchWorksPlumbing I’d love to simply swap out knowing I have the model number, I just don’t see how it can be done with barbed ends on the Watts unit? Is it simply as easy as breaking the PEX collars somehow at the ends and twisting those barbed ends out of the PEX? And there are no unions on my model Watts.

@user-sp7zj2xp3u 11 ай бұрын

What are the specs for the pex adapter you used? Thx

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 10 ай бұрын

The three-quarter version, which is what I used in this video holds up to 1200 pounds of pressure. which is well over the residential and most commercial applications

@ncooty 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Hope that pipe wasn't a ground. :)

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

This one was not

@TraceElements-ti5ke Ай бұрын

You just reduced the full oad water capacity by 33% When will installers will realize that smaller I.D. fittings cause significant pressure drops under full dervice demands.

@WrenchWorksPlumbing 29 күн бұрын

Interesting