How To Fix ANY Pipe Leak! 2 BEST Ways For DIY Plumbing!

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[mpxz]

The second you find a single leaking pipe like that, make sure you do the math to see how old your home is.
If it's around 50 years old, then prepare yourself for a major plumbing overhaul sooner than later!
I had so many pin hole leaks in a 6 month span, before ripping it all out and finding even MORE UNSEEN leaks inside some of the walls.
When my house was built, they saw fit to use Type-M lines nearly everywhere (Use type-L!!!)
The stuff I ripped out was paper thin.
The 3/4 " Type-M runs were so thin that I could crush the scrap in my bare hand. It was like a slightly more rigid tin foil.

Goodluck to all you DIYers out there!
You can do it!

[michaelboydston]

I just had to do this under the house. I opened up two outside faucets on the house and used compressed air to force excess water out of the pipes. Worked great. Didn't have to cut pipe, just unsoldered it.

[ricardomarmol]

Nice job. Yes there are many ways to do this job. But many of us (homeowners) don't have expensive tools to tackle a job like this one. The compress fitting in is the ideal way to go due to the proximity of the wood subfloor. By avoiding a potential fire. I just wish the prices of these professional tools would come down . Great video. Because you showed us different alternatives to the way to go. Great video. Thanks . May God bless you and your beautiful family.

[adenlove]

My house was built in 1987, and I got the same leaks. I used Shark bits fittings very easy procedure.

[jimpie]

I’m a homeowner, I’m not going to spend $1000+ for the Milwaukee tool, poor solution. Soldering old fittings is not a good solution, even I know that. I would wait to get water out or use bread and then clean pipes and use new fittings, solder together and done. I have done this before. Soldering gets easier, the more you do it!

[ryanstetson]

If you have to solder and water is bubbling through the solder when you heat up the pipe put a chunk of bread in it and quickly solder the pipe. The bread will absorb the water for the time needed to solder the pipe. Then go take of your sink air ratter ( the part where the water comes out of your faucet) and turn on sink. The chunks of bread will pass through your faucet with your air ratter off. Ive done this many times in the past and actually last week when my Milwaukee force logic pro press gun broke and I couldn't get my big ass Ridgid pro press gun up in the joist spacing

[drclean]

Great video, it would be worth mentioning to always have a fire extinguisher next to you when soldering pipes even the pros start fires worst case a glass of water or full water bottle.

[Shaikhofilm]

Thanks for the video. I would say just use a 3/4 sharkbite elbow - I checked, they do sell them in Home Depot. Cut the corner out and push the pipes in the fitting.
That’s the easiest . Otherwise sweat another elbow or replace the whole pipe with pex .
The propress I would leave to plumbers . Sounds like to be a good solution, but seems very costly for the tools.
Another thing that will work is “pipe repair cast” - wrap around and it becomes cast hard. Just make sure there are no pinhole leaks .

[allover]

You could drill a hole in the elbow to drain the standing water and then proceeded as planned but with just a new elbow fitting.

[leepiper]

Can't live w/o those Channellock Pliers ❤️

[HomeRapidRepair]

Nice video. Although Shark Bites, push connectors are taking over the repair industry.

[MrBill]

Very informative. I didn't know the trick about how many inches of solder to use.

[michaelbravo]

you have to cute the failing fitting rather than the pipe in 3 different locations. you cut making sure you do not cut the pipe only the fitting, that way you can let all the water drain out. all you are left is with 3 copper rings that are much easier to remove. and if needed then you make a second cut for your sliding coupling.

[mikeevans]

Make a cut and drain out the water into a bucket. With all the faucets open, use a shop vac with its filter removed, suck out the water in the pipe. Use MAP gas as it heats up higher. The final joint can use a compression fitting to finish.

[Dave-lddr]

While I agree the pro press is easy fast & efficient it’s also $2000 plus your fittings.Very pricy for a small job unless your investing in future repairs.Good video as always.I have learned from them.

[vincenthuying]

The image with which you open this vid, actually shows the problem of these kind of leaks. The T-joint and the 90° elbow/knee are way to close together. If you really need to put the elbow directly on the T-joint, than at the very least use an (A) version of the knee, with one side equivalent to the pipe diameter, instead the solder sleeve. That will reduce two solder joints so close together, or even butting up.
Instead of a knee, you could also choose to install a 90° wide bend in the similar (A) version.
Or even better, buy a pipe bender and form your copper pipe with just a slight bend, start of the bend over the heart line of the pipe it needs to cross. I bet you’ll only need a 5° angle to reach the T-joint, without any visual or technical restrictions. Hence, you can throw away the 90° fittings all together. Will improve the longevity of the installation, reduce noise, pressure drop, and chance of water hammer effects (very common in installations with tight fit knees and elbows.

[jasonnguyen]

It was easy to solder T-joint side up cuz gravity would help, but its original position was pointing down. That's more challenging

[jspinosa]

Nice vidio, the problem most people don't have 2 grand for the hydraulic press.

[frankdrahos]

Sharkbite is definitely the way to go for this repair 👍👍

[Dontleavemedimi]

So initially did you believe there was no water in the system when you began to solder or did you continue to make the point that water will usually be present.