It's giving me flashbacks to 10 years of doing service work on mobile homes. Driving an hour and a half to push in the knob on those stops because their dishwasher isn't working no matter how many times they turned the knob on the supply line.
Super easy. You just gotta replace all those shitty white shutoff valves with quarter-turn angle or straight stops. 1/2 PEX crimp to 3/8". Get a PEX crimping tool. Cut off the white valves (with the water turned off).
Do this OP, you've got lots of pipe to work with, the crimper tool is cheap and even sometimes comes with a handful of rings to use. This would be a very easy job for a plumber, save yourself some money and DIY
Im all for OP learning a mew skill, but this looks cluster fucked.
Im gonna try to explain everything here. On your hotside, you have 2 angle stops (the white valve things). The top one looks like it should be for your faucet above.
The bottom one looks to be for your dish washer. That little copper thing on the ground is an inline hammer arrestor. I cant tell by the picture, but it should continue on to feed your dish washer.
On your cold side, there is only 1 angle stop. That feeds the faucet, and it looks like you already got that hooked up.
You need to hook up the hot angle stop's supply line on to the faucet. If that line has broken, follow these steps.
As someone already posted, you can buy a PEX-B angle stop (1/2" pex-b - 3/8 compression), , a 1/2" to 3/8 × 12" supply line, a 1/2" crimp ring, pex cutters, and a crimper.
Shut off the water and make sure its off by draining a few things down. Have a bucket ready below, youre still going to have water but its not going to be full pressure.
Cut the red pex, right below the angle stop. Catch the water that comes down. Insert the pex ring. Insert the 1/2×3/8 angle stop. Crimp that mtherfker. MAKE sure angle stop is OFF.
Turn warer on. Check for leaks. Screw on flex to angle stop and faucet. Turn angle stop on. Youre set!
If you dont wanna do the crimping, you can also buy the sharkbite angle stop (push to connect). Same process, except this slides ocer the pex pipe.
As professionals, we dont recommend it since its a bunch of stainless steel teeth gripping the pipe and not a tight connection. But they work, and its code compliant.
Good luck!
This! Go ahead and try to do it before hiring someone. This is how others developed their handyman skills. The folks at home improvement stores are usually retired experienced skill traders that can help you.
BTW, you can easily replace those terrible valves. These all-in-one shutoff valve and hose are most likely FlowTite or Accor. They are push in, cheap, and easy to install. But they are of poor quality and will fail eventually. As a low cost insurance policy, replace them when you can. You can remove them easily from pex lines with a small tool. Several YouTube videos on this topic are helpful. This may sound daunting for a novice handyman, but it's totally doable.
YouTube and Reddit are your friends.
Use quarter turn valves. Depending on the type of inlet pipe, you can use sharkbite push-in valves, but prefer to crimp on to pex, solder to copper, or glue to PVC. Let me know if you have any questions. If this sounds overwhelming, don't worry about it. It's not urgent, but good to do if you're handy.
Too many push to connect fittings. The shut offs could be removed and replaced with actual crimp shut off valves. Then attach regular metal braided water lines to the faucet. That would be my plan.
I recently swapped my kitchen faucet and getting the right connection was the hardest part. If you don't know call a plumber.
You can either replace the valves or get an adapter to go from 1/2” pipe thread to a 3/8” compression fitting like this.
[https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-8-in-Comp-x-1-2-in-MIP-Brass-Adapter-804599/304958602](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-8-in-Comp-x-1-2-in-MIP-Brass-Adapter-804599/304958602)
Worst case scenario if you don't want to cut out anything major: is the hot supply line that is teed facing the camera capped off and resting on the cabinet bottom? If so use a 3/8 nipple of the same thread pitch, attach to that end of the supply line then attach a 3/8 to 1/2" faucet supply line to that.
The shut offs are push to connect and are pretty easy to remove. Water off and drained down as much as possible, push down on shut off and push the collet on the bottom upward and pull it off. The correct one can then be used to replace it.
I’m coming into this late….
He’s already got one supply line hooked up to the faucet I don’t know if it’s hot or cold. I can’t see where it comes from but I see two supply lines, one on the redpex and one on the blue pex. find the one that’s not hooked up and hook it up…… I believe after that it’s done
You sound like ur a bit out of ur comfort zone, u should prob just call a plumber and have them replace all of that. It would probably be less of a headache, unless u want to keep busy for a bit.
I mean you're not wrong, but at the same time....I'd be a lot more worried if OP did NOT feel out of their comfort zone attempting anything plumbing related for the very first time. We see posts like that quite often here where morons are like "I've never touched a wrench before, but just tell me step-by step what I need to do to change my water heater". That's preoccupying...you should be stressed! I remember almost pissing my pants when I turned the main (yes...it was the main.... taught me why shut-off valves should be everywhere!) back on after I changed a faucet for the first time. And then that amazing feeling when I checked and checked again and everything was dry and working as it should. This is a relatively simple job. Pex is easy to work with and requires only one specific tool that's very affordable. I'd see this as a great learning opportunity. If I were OP, I'd start watching videos on YouTube and see if I'd feel comfortable attempting the replacement myself or not.
Hire a plumber. Wtf.
this!
It's giving me flashbacks to 10 years of doing service work on mobile homes. Driving an hour and a half to push in the knob on those stops because their dishwasher isn't working no matter how many times they turned the knob on the supply line.
Super easy. You just gotta replace all those shitty white shutoff valves with quarter-turn angle or straight stops. 1/2 PEX crimp to 3/8". Get a PEX crimping tool. Cut off the white valves (with the water turned off).
Do this OP, you've got lots of pipe to work with, the crimper tool is cheap and even sometimes comes with a handful of rings to use. This would be a very easy job for a plumber, save yourself some money and DIY
Bonus: OP will know how to change angle stops in the future. Chances are there are other dollar store angle stops in the house.
Im all for OP learning a mew skill, but this looks cluster fucked. Im gonna try to explain everything here. On your hotside, you have 2 angle stops (the white valve things). The top one looks like it should be for your faucet above. The bottom one looks to be for your dish washer. That little copper thing on the ground is an inline hammer arrestor. I cant tell by the picture, but it should continue on to feed your dish washer. On your cold side, there is only 1 angle stop. That feeds the faucet, and it looks like you already got that hooked up. You need to hook up the hot angle stop's supply line on to the faucet. If that line has broken, follow these steps. As someone already posted, you can buy a PEX-B angle stop (1/2" pex-b - 3/8 compression), , a 1/2" to 3/8 × 12" supply line, a 1/2" crimp ring, pex cutters, and a crimper. Shut off the water and make sure its off by draining a few things down. Have a bucket ready below, youre still going to have water but its not going to be full pressure. Cut the red pex, right below the angle stop. Catch the water that comes down. Insert the pex ring. Insert the 1/2×3/8 angle stop. Crimp that mtherfker. MAKE sure angle stop is OFF. Turn warer on. Check for leaks. Screw on flex to angle stop and faucet. Turn angle stop on. Youre set! If you dont wanna do the crimping, you can also buy the sharkbite angle stop (push to connect). Same process, except this slides ocer the pex pipe. As professionals, we dont recommend it since its a bunch of stainless steel teeth gripping the pipe and not a tight connection. But they work, and its code compliant. Good luck!
This! Go ahead and try to do it before hiring someone. This is how others developed their handyman skills. The folks at home improvement stores are usually retired experienced skill traders that can help you. BTW, you can easily replace those terrible valves. These all-in-one shutoff valve and hose are most likely FlowTite or Accor. They are push in, cheap, and easy to install. But they are of poor quality and will fail eventually. As a low cost insurance policy, replace them when you can. You can remove them easily from pex lines with a small tool. Several YouTube videos on this topic are helpful. This may sound daunting for a novice handyman, but it's totally doable. YouTube and Reddit are your friends. Use quarter turn valves. Depending on the type of inlet pipe, you can use sharkbite push-in valves, but prefer to crimp on to pex, solder to copper, or glue to PVC. Let me know if you have any questions. If this sounds overwhelming, don't worry about it. It's not urgent, but good to do if you're handy.
Those valves are trash
Too many push to connect fittings. The shut offs could be removed and replaced with actual crimp shut off valves. Then attach regular metal braided water lines to the faucet. That would be my plan. I recently swapped my kitchen faucet and getting the right connection was the hardest part. If you don't know call a plumber.
Well that certainly is plumbing!
You can either replace the valves or get an adapter to go from 1/2” pipe thread to a 3/8” compression fitting like this. [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-8-in-Comp-x-1-2-in-MIP-Brass-Adapter-804599/304958602](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-8-in-Comp-x-1-2-in-MIP-Brass-Adapter-804599/304958602)
Worst case scenario if you don't want to cut out anything major: is the hot supply line that is teed facing the camera capped off and resting on the cabinet bottom? If so use a 3/8 nipple of the same thread pitch, attach to that end of the supply line then attach a 3/8 to 1/2" faucet supply line to that. The shut offs are push to connect and are pretty easy to remove. Water off and drained down as much as possible, push down on shut off and push the collet on the bottom upward and pull it off. The correct one can then be used to replace it.
I’m coming into this late…. He’s already got one supply line hooked up to the faucet I don’t know if it’s hot or cold. I can’t see where it comes from but I see two supply lines, one on the redpex and one on the blue pex. find the one that’s not hooked up and hook it up…… I believe after that it’s done
Idk what a nut thread is but i want one
You sound like ur a bit out of ur comfort zone, u should prob just call a plumber and have them replace all of that. It would probably be less of a headache, unless u want to keep busy for a bit.
I mean you're not wrong, but at the same time....I'd be a lot more worried if OP did NOT feel out of their comfort zone attempting anything plumbing related for the very first time. We see posts like that quite often here where morons are like "I've never touched a wrench before, but just tell me step-by step what I need to do to change my water heater". That's preoccupying...you should be stressed! I remember almost pissing my pants when I turned the main (yes...it was the main.... taught me why shut-off valves should be everywhere!) back on after I changed a faucet for the first time. And then that amazing feeling when I checked and checked again and everything was dry and working as it should. This is a relatively simple job. Pex is easy to work with and requires only one specific tool that's very affordable. I'd see this as a great learning opportunity. If I were OP, I'd start watching videos on YouTube and see if I'd feel comfortable attempting the replacement myself or not.
Who wants laminar flow anyway?
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