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Installing PVC Pipe

Bob Vila shows a Victorian Style house where the rough plumbing is being installed. The house has a half basement with the remainder being just crawlspace. Bob meets Jim Timino the plumbing contractor who is running PVC pipe for the rough plumbing. Jim is installing a 2" waste line from the kitchen that will run to the main waste stack or piping. The main waste piping is 4" PVC and it runs into the sewer system in the backyard. Jim demonstrates how to properly cement or glue PVC fittings with the PVC pipe. They also take a look at the master bedroom suite, which will be magnificent because of its roominess and the extravagant master bathroom. They show the vent piping from the basement to the roof including a future vent that is required by Massachusetts Plumbing Code. The vent pipes allow proper drainage as well as a place for sewer gas to be expelled outside of the home. Bob tours the upstairs children�s bedrooms and overviews the header vent pipe and how it interconnects all the waste pipes in the home.

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" We're now under the master bath and let's just talk about what you've done already what's this might hear more as I hit it went waste pipe that comes from the dictionary -- down. Has been a time -- pilgrims that beckoned all the way from the kitchen sink and of course it's metal horizontal it's pitched all the way over here. And then where does this go out to that orange exit pipe goes right out rated but the -- that we'll go to the septic tank and I noticed everything here's PVC plastic piping correct we don't need to worry about cast iron pipe. Code -- require no cutting required -- it was a lot simpler to work with this material is marked -- what you're doing here right now -- on the main building drain in the basement. That's going to pick up ala. Miscellaneous rises. -- on action now. First cut. Five what are you gonna connect there really connect it correctly outlet be picked up with. Which would be the -- the bath toilet and it lab at such a clever way to do it -- fight permanently. Latin way. Coming in -- with -- with that -- that you're putting -- at the evening period below 88 Lou. That's not on. Liberal application. Then there. Great minute ago. And now and -- goes straight up but you know why don't you and I go up if we can talk about bed bath and lay out what it out or it. This master suite is going to be terrific -- the bedroom is actually sixteen by eighteen and then through here you've got his and hers closets. As you've already moved and it is that's quite a collection of elbows and stuff. Then here in the master bath we have this top here. Toilet level over there so what have you been doing here and here we've got you've spent for the tub which comes up. And we're just wrote that and it out. And continuing right up. In the attic into and so you can make all these turns with a vent -- not have to worry about it and getting an up or anybody who just want to put a little bit of pets aren't out yet and keep -- arm upward blow and the OK but there's only air gaps going that is correct. Now what you -- in -- all we hear he's working on the NAFTA bet lab bomb. And bent. For the toilet in. -- and that's going to continue up. In the attic. Good to have been. -- the purpose of all this venting is to make sure that any sewer gas escapes the house and goes right up through the roof -- and to allow proper drain. And everything is connected into this this risers system. Iraq so here we see. Basic joints being put together. All right that Dennis is just connected event for the toilet and for the lavatory here which incidentally will be a pedestal -- What I'm looking and another when you're -- understand and that's about. That they had bought it they went through to vent. Which Massachusetts and one -- require. A future event. So -- at some point in the future we wanna. Vent something we already evident in the law -- in you have -- that comes from the main builder going in the basement. And connect supplement building drank. And goes all the way up and ties into the band pattern OK so I can add a laundry sink in the basement. An -- already evident regret that we'll take care and in Benton of any plumbing fixtures. That -- that you might want to and so we've got two bedrooms and a back then these are good sized bedrooms kids' bedrooms but you know sixteen by fourteen I think it is. Bob with a nice closet plenty of light. And then the the bathroom is in. A shed dormer rather -- it's not a kid orbital doghouse storm but anyway gives it enough space so that we have a toilet a sink and at nice. But last shower that you've already gotten here yet. And this bedroom is. Directly over the master bath where he's working."

" Right correct this is where we left off downstairs we've left that we make in the -- them after the death. Yeah well that's the toilet in the lab and it connects up here next packed up and -- that we have -- in the attic. So -- what we see there is what -- in the event better Iraq and that's called -- has -- That's part of the it is main branch which picks up all the individual bands from the -- infection house. Future event this is the future and they -- okay what's the bet that they -- the -- room look at it and look at -- down here. Picks up where is -- up. The -- but he shallow. Continuous down. Yes. And picked up our -- three inch stack that. Which picked up -- here toilet in -- laugh out. So there's a very important part of the whole system -- what about this fight that goes NAFTA -- they would let that I Polly peck on the things just so that we terminated from the world with the band. And we only have one band going -- that's what's it's a great idea you've only got one vent my main barriers in the room that in north we have behind a doghouse dormer on the backside of how it -- it's not visible from the street and."

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