How to Plumb a House | Rough-In

How to Plumbing a House | Rough-In - Questions ONLY a Plumber Can Answer

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[ace-zwlf]

I do new construction I do rough ins fairly often. It's always cool seeing people talk about what you do and work around everyday. plumber nation!

[Harloha]

Service plumber for 28 years. About 15 years ago, I worked new construction for maybe a month, 5 weeks tops. Was not for me. Too repetitive, like a factory job. With that being said, I have a lot of respect for new construction plumber's, because if that was my only option, I would hate my job. Thankfully, it's not my only option, and I own my own business, running service call's everyday. My favorite part about it, meeting new people everyday, from all walks of life. Plumbing and people are a lot like snowflakes, no 2 job's are the same, and no 2 persons are the same.
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[johncordone]

I been doing strictly residential service since 2010. I ❤ it.. I did residential construction from 2003-2010. I'm glad that I started in construction. Repetition is the best way to learn.

[josephcastro]

I’m a service technician for a big plumbing and heating company that does new construction for multi and single family homes as well as commercial. Being a service plumber, I love seeing the new plumbing on the track homes. At some point I would like to get into the field and it’s nice seeing you breaking it all down. I don’t get a lot of breakdowns on these aspects of plumbing. Thanks for your videos

[laoboyardee]

Hi Roger. I've been following you for a while now and really enjoy your vids. I'm a residential new construction plumber in Northern CA. We only use abs here and in our local jurisdiction everything needs to be foam wrapped that is going to be up in the concrete. The project I'm currently on are all post tension slabs. We also strap our pipes with rebar and tie wire. I've never seen conduit used to strap the pipes like in your video around here.

[jwblount]

3" pipe gives more float than 4" pipe, especially with theses low volume flush toilets.

[matthewbekkattla]

Saskatchewan Canada plumber here and we use abs pipe for residential houses

[patrickmorris]

City water and sewer inspector from Connecticut . I like seeing how other plumbers work in the country and how different we work. We don’t allow any pex buried in the ground whatsoever. It’s k copper or 200 lbs poly and it must have a tracer wire attached for line tracing purposes. Also we require 4 inch gasketed not glued sewer pipe from the road through the foundation wall. We also require our sewer pipe outside the home to be laid in 6 inches of 1/2 or 3/4 inch crushed stone on the bottom ans 6 inches of stone on top and be wrapped in filter fabric to prevent sagging and bellies in the pipe. We used to pull deflection gauges through the pipe but now we air test the pipe then run a camera through the pipe to make sure it’s free of debris. If it’s clean we will run some water through and then a camera to make sure there isn’t and sagging or crushed pipe. It may seem like a lot but we have had some sloppy installs in the past that has forced us to make sure the home owner doesn’t have any clogs or rocks and debris don’t get into our pumps.

[xtc]

Plumber apprentice here in Alaska, I mostly do rough in plumbing for brand new houses, a lot of the houses usually already have a 4in sewer main and water main in the foundation/craw space. Most of the ground roughs are in the summer or if we are tying into existing plumbing on a job inside, been plumbing for 7 months now and I enjoy watching your videos.

[cameronbouchard]

Here in NC would call that a slab and the rough in would be after the house is framed and trim out would be setting fixtures

[jiggidyjam]

Lic plumber for 25 yrs+ and I do it all. When I rough in under a slab I use sand like this but I add it after my test which is a 10’ stand pipe (we are required to have a step ladder for inspector so all he has to do is go up and look)and after green tag. I will use a lil to secure everything but NEVER around joints. Once 24hrs pass with zero drop down I will go around a pack sand in all around my dwv

[coltonknowles]

I started in commercial new construction and remodel plumbing in St Louis from 18 to 20 years old and went to Ranken Tech for a plumbing certificate. graduated in 2020 im 22 now and i work with one other very intellectual guy and we do absolutely everything except for hooking up frion and some other hvac stuff. We mostly remodel historic homes a lot from around the 1920’s and older I couldnt be happier with what im doing and my capability to learn has acted like compound interest its insane and it feels unstoppable as long as you apply yourself, take pride in your craft and stay curious. Hope this inspires even just one person

[CrapShackGaming]

One thing we mainly do different is using 1-1/2 black poly and running it up into the house and pulling pex through to feed the house. Its normally installed on the left or right exterior wall

[rawrgrrlol]

Here in VA we call this a groundwork. Installing plumbing in a framed house we call a rough in

[ace-zwlf]

Roger make a video on how you layout a rough in

[lucrative]

I work for a plumbing company and install new plumbing in houses that are being built. I don't know this aspect in this video because our ground crew does that. I go in and run all the plumbing and water lines and tie the plumbing into all of this and the water coming into the house is usually 1" pex and I reduce it to 3/4" pex and run 1/2" pex from the 3/4" to the bathrooms, laundry room, and kitchen. Pretty neat video! Thanks!

[truittlilly]

I'm a 3rd year with the local 68 doing mainly new construction . Haven't done a rough in yet and haven't done residential . This video us really informative

[leach]

I done residential service work, commercial service work and now I do multi-family new construction Been doing for 15 yrs I’m only 34

[leecharland]

I enjoy watching you I've been a licensed plumber for 40 years I'd like a 3" main line because of the gallon 1/2 flush toilets I've had too many customers that use heavy toilet paper and if there's not a washing machine behind it we end up with a ventral blockage and a in blockage in a in a 3" line let alone a 4" line 4" does not have enough water surface for a for a gallon and a 1/2 flush toilets and the water water level seems to be going down on those I live in Tennessee and we have the International code which is a little bit different than the Texas code and I understand that And before I was in Tennessee I lived in was licensed in the state of Michigan so that's got tough plumbing code laws also Most of the rough inside do are crawl spaces we don't do as many slabs as you guys do But we can also run our PEX under slab without being insulated when we can run at the same way that we used to run copper just make junctions in certain walls are under bathtubs things like that

[Texas_krazy]

I've been plumbing for a little over three years, I have about 7700 hours and I have only worked new construction. Every rough in I've been on, I have also done the topout and setout. I guess being a somewhat small company, we don't specialize in anything other than new con and service.